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Gas Numbers on the Floor of Parliament: How the Government and the Opposition Compare

September 10, 2026September 10, 2026 editor No Comments

Bangladesh’s gas crisis has become a recurring fixture of Jatiya Sangsad debates in 2026, and the numbers presented by the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources deserve a closer, technical look against what the opposition has offered in response. This article presents a technical brief on the accuracy of the proposals. The Government’s Figures…

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Where is Atomic Research in Bangladesh?

September 3, 2026September 3, 2026 editor No Comments

Bangladesh’s arrival in the community of nuclear energy producing nations came in April 2026, when fuel loading began at the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant, a genuinely historic turning point that made the country the 33rd in the world to generate electricity from atomic energy. Yet this milestone also throws into sharp relief how underdeveloped the…

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Bangladesh’s Failure to Capture the Regional Tech Innovation Market

August 29, 2026August 29, 2026 editor No Comments

South Asia has produced genuine technology success stories over the past two decades, and Bangladesh is largely absent from that list. India built a globally competitive software services industry, then layered a homegrown startup ecosystem on top of it, producing companies with real international reach in payments, logistics, and enterprise software. Sri Lanka, despite a…

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The Political Capture of Civil Society: NGOs, Party Loyalty, and Regional Imbalance in Bangladesh

August 13, 2026August 13, 2026 editor No Comments

Non-governmental organizations were meant to fill the gaps that the state could not reach: rural credit, agricultural extension, maternal health, disaster relief. In Bangladesh, over the past two decades, this mission has repeatedly bent toward a different purpose, that of rewarding politically loyal communities and neglecting or punishing those associated with the opposition. The result…

Humanity, Social Welfare, Human Rights & Happiness

Data Protection and Hacking in Bangladesh: Will the New Act Perform?

July 23, 2026July 23, 2026 editor No Comments

Meem Arafat Manab’s article, published in The Daily Star on 7 July 2026, offers a compelling critique of Bangladesh’s Personal Data Protection Act (2026), arguing that the law is structurally inadequate to safeguard citizens’ personal data. While the piece makes a persuasive case regarding enforcement gaps and architectural flaws in Bangladesh’s digital infrastructure, it occasionally…

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Mental Health in Bangladesh: Reasons or Habits?

July 16, 2026July 16, 2026 editor No Comments

Bangladesh faces a substantial mental health crisis, with pooled prevalence estimates for depression, anxiety, and stress reaching 47%, 47%, and 44% respectively during the COVID 19 pandemic. Rather than prescribing positive behaviours to adopt, this article synthesises evidence on the everyday habits that actively erode psychological wellbeing in the Bangladeshi context, arguing that eliminating these…

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The Present and Future of Space Research in Bangladesh

May 30, 2026May 30, 2026 editor No Comments

When Bangladesh launched the Bangabandhu-1 satellite aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in May 2018, it joined a relatively small club of nations that own and operate geostationary communications satellites. It was a landmark moment, and it was celebrated as such. But a single commercial communications satellite, managed by the Bangladesh Communication Satellite Company Limited…

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