Weekly Bangladesh Policy Outlook: Analysis, Truth, Debate.
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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For much of the past two decades, Bangladesh’s response to social and humanity crimes, including violence against women, trafficking, mob violence, and communal unrest, has been filtered through a political lens before it has been filtered through a justice lens. Cases involving ruling party affiliates were often slow-walked, investigations were shaped by who held power…
Six months into the new government’s tenure, Bangladesh presents an unusual democratic setup. The Awami League, dominant for fifteen years, remains barred from political activity. Its absence is shaping every parliamentary debate. Jamaat e Islami and the National Citizen Party have instead become the principal opposition, a configuration few predicted three years ago. This article…
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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…
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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For millions of residents, Dhaka and New Delhi promise economic mobility. These massive urban centers have transformed themselves into primary drivers of regional growth, thus attracting families seeking careers, higher education for their children as well as financial security. In Dhaka alone, the population has surged past 25 million people (Onamika, 2026), while Delhi has…
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A recent article in the Oniket Bulletin presents English medium education in Bangladesh as a largely successful stream that simply needs better coordination with national institutions. It cites internationally recognized curricula, strong O Level and A Level results, growing presence in multinational companies, and admission to leading global universities as evidence of achievement, while treating…
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Bangladesh sends hundreds of thousands of workers abroad every year, and the remittances they send home, which topped thirty billion US dollars in the 2025 financial year, are routinely presented by politicians and economists as proof that the country’s labor export strategy is working. A 2026 analysis published in The Oniket Bulletin by Sheikh Selim…
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Bangladesh’s poultry industry is often described as a pillar of national food security. Roughly eight million people depend on it directly or indirectly, nearly one million entrepreneurs run poultry-based livelihoods, and the sector produces close to 23 billion eggs and 1.46 million tonnes of meat every year (TOB, 2026). On paper, this scale looks like…
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Bangladesh’s fall in infant mortality is widely celebrated, and rightly so. The national infant mortality rate (IMR) declined from roughly 100 deaths per 1,000 live births in 1990 to about 20.76 in 2024, with a projection near 19.95 in 2025 (UN data). That is close to an 80 percent reduction across three and a half…
