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The Hidden Secularism in Bangladesh: Religious Harmony and the Cultural Map of Religions

September 24, 2026September 24, 2026 editor No Comments

This article examines the everyday, largely unexamined secularism that persists beneath Bangladesh’s constitutional declaration of Islam as the state religion, distinguishing it from secularism as a formal legal doctrine. It traces where interfaith coexistence has functioned in practice, identifies the specific junctures, communal, political, and institutional, where that coexistence has visibly fractured, and assesses what…

Humanity, Social Welfare, Human Rights & Happiness

Commercial Pressure, Political Lobbying, and the Task Facing Bangladesh’s New Information Minister

August 29, 2026August 29, 2026 editor No Comments

How Private Television Became a Business First Enterprise Bangladesh’s private television sector, opened up in the late 1990s and early 2000s, now includes dozens of channels competing simultaneously for viewers, advertising revenue, and political relevance, as detailed in a recent analysis published by The Oniket Bulletin. That same analysis notes that most of these channels…

Media, Publishing & Digital Dissemination

Fearless does not mean Mindless: Mirza Fakhrul on free media in Bangladesh

July 23, 2026July 23, 2026 editor No Comments

LGRD Minister Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir’s remark that “the stronger the media, the stronger the democracy” delivered at a reception for the newly elected executive committee of the Thakurgaon Press Club crystallizes a principle that Bangladesh has long acknowledged in rhetoric but struggled to uphold in practice. His call for journalists to “call things as…

Media, Publishing & Digital Dissemination

Is the Government Decision to Retain Teletalk timely (and correct)?

July 16, 2026July 16, 2026 editor No Comments

Post and Telecommunication Minister Faqir Mahbub Anam’s declaration that the government has no plan to sell Teletalk, Bangladesh’s sole state owned mobile operator, is framed as a safeguard for market competition. The minister warned that without Teletalk, private operators could arbitrarily raise service charges and insisted that keeping the operator under government control is necessary…

Science, Technology & Innovation

Harnessing the Sun: The Path to Sustainable Solar Energy in Bangladesh

May 30, 2026May 31, 2026 editor No Comments

Few countries are better positioned to benefit from solar energy than Bangladesh. Sitting within a high-irradiance solar belt, receiving abundant sunlight for much of the year, and facing rapidly growing electricity demand driven by urbanisation and rising living standards, the country has both the resource and the motivation to make solar power a cornerstone of…

Sustainability & Urban Planning