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Bangladesh’s Young Workforce: Demoralized, and Underdelivering in Skill and Creative Industries

August 29, 2026August 29, 2026 editor No Comments

Across Bangladesh’s advertising agencies, software firms, design studios, and media houses, employers increasingly describe a similar frustration. Fresh graduates arrive with degrees, sometimes strong academic transcripts, yet struggle to originate ideas, sustain long projects, or take ownership of ambiguous problems. The gap is not intelligence. It is preparation. Many young professionals were trained to answer…

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

Fifty Years On: Has Bangladesh Truly Honored Its Rebel Poet?

August 29, 2026August 29, 2026 editor No Comments

On the twenty ninth of August this year, Bangladesh marks fifty years since the death of Kazi Nazrul Islam, the man the nation calls its national poet. Half a century is long enough to judge whether reverence has been matched by responsibility. A recent article in The Oniket Bulletin, written by Tanzina Fardoush, reminded readers…

Art, Literature, History & National Heritage

The Familiar Architecture of Local Governance in Bangladesh: Can the new cabinet decision improve it?

August 29, 2026August 29, 2026 editor No Comments

On August 27, 2026, the Cabinet Division of Bangladesh issued a notification assigning 30 ruling party lawmakers, including ministers and state ministers, supervisory responsibility over all 64 districts of the country. Framed as a mechanism to ensure good governance, curb corruption, control drug trafficking, and implement the government’s election manifesto, the decision has generated immediate…

Law & Local Governance

Invest Bangladesh After the Merger: From Institutional Design to Operational Resilience

August 29, 2026August 29, 2026 editor No Comments

This article assesses whether the newly operational Invest Bangladesh Authority has addressed the institutional risks identified by The Oniket Bulletin (TOB) in its 16 July 2026 critique, Investment Agency Merger in Bangladesh: Too Big to Fail? TOB accepted the case for administrative consolidation but warned that a mega-authority could reproduce the regulatory maze behind a…

Trade, Commerce & Industry

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…

Science, Technology & Innovation

The Gas Crisis in Bangladesh and Essential Reforms

August 20, 2026August 20, 2026 editor No Comments

Bangladesh is struggling for breath. When Summit LNG Terminal resumed supplying the national grid on the evening of 14 August 2026, starting at roughly 110 million cubic feet per day and expected to reach around 550 mmcfd by early Saturday, it offered only a brief flicker of relief amid what has become a persistent energy…

Trade, Commerce & Industry

Free Will against Dignity: Where is Social Media in Bangladesh?

August 20, 2026August 20, 2026 editor No Comments

Whether individual freedom in digital spaces should sometimes give way to collective social values is a question most Western researchers wouldn’t typically stop asking. Within liberal traditions, free will is sacrosanct: adults choose who they associate with, live with the outcomes, and society steps in only once clear harm is demonstrated. Yet a recent study…

Humanity, Social Welfare, Human Rights & Happiness

Education at the Oniket Bulletin: A Critical Review of 23 Articles, 16 Weeks

August 20, 2026August 29, 2026 editor No Comments

A critical read of the Education section’s last sixteen weeks yields an uneven verdict. The editorial board has pulled together a genuinely broad thematic range across the 23 published pieces, and a number of individual contributions demonstrate real intellectual gravity. Yet the commissioning pattern also exposes silences that a steadier editorial hand ought to close….

Education

The Greek Government Debt Crisis and Its Lessons for Bangladesh

August 20, 2026August 29, 2026 editor No Comments

Introduction Between 2009 and 2015, Greece endured repeated bailouts, harsh austerity, economic contraction, and social upheaval, a crisis that remains a defining example of how fiscal mismanagement, opaque data, political calculation, and external dependency can converge into national emergency. Though Bangladesh and Greece differ greatly in structure and development, aspects of Greece’s experience remain instructive….

Economy & Policy Governance