Tag: Ameera Haidar

The opinion piece under review, Sajed Kamal (2026) in The Daily Star, argues that Bangladesh possesses vast and largely untapped renewable energy potential, that global fire and warming trends make an accelerated transition urgent, and that the country should adopt what its author calls an emergency action plan toward one hundred percent renewable power. It…

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The Bhotekoshi catastrophe of August 26, which claimed over 1000 lives and left more than 4,000 missing in Nepal’s Himalayan corridors, is not merely a national tragedy for one upstream country. For Bangladesh, it is a geographical alarm bell of the highest order. The same rivers that carried that fury of ice, rock, and debris…

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On the morning of August 26, 2026, a ten-meter wall of water swept through Timure and Syabrubesi in Nepal’s Rasuwa district without warning. The Bhotekoshi river, swollen by a high-altitude glacial lake outburst upstream, tore apart trade infrastructure, destroyed bridges, flattened police posts, and consumed hydropower facilities that had taken years to build. Writing in…

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The Oniket Bulletin analysis recently published on power generation in Bangladesh provides a valuable diagnostic of the structural, financial, and institutional weaknesses that have caused actual output to trail behind planned targets. It correctly identifies overdependence on imported fossil fuels, the perverse consequences of capacity payment contracts, and the bankability crisis in renewable energy tenders. …

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Bangladesh is a nation defined by water. More than seven hundred rivers thread across its territory, the Bay of Bengal borders its south, and the world’s largest river delta shapes its very geography. Yet for decades, the cities built atop this vast water network have treated water as a threat to be managed away rather…

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Dhaka floods after thirty to forty millimetres of rain. A capital of over twenty million people, built on the world’s largest delta, submerges under the modest downpour that any functioning monsoon city should absorb without incident. This is not an act of nature. It is the accumulated consequence of a century and a half of…

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