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AI Research and its Direction in Bangladesh: The importance of Social and Mental Health.

August 20, 2026August 20, 2026 editor No Comments

Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping life in Bangladesh, from healthcare and agriculture to education and governance. Yet this transformation carries underexamined risks. As AI infuses daily routines, it threatens to erode cognitive autonomy and intensify mental health vulnerabilities, even as the country’s fledgling data protection framework struggles to contain the informational fallout. The convergence of…

Science, Technology & Innovation

Can SAARC be revived, and if so, under Bangladesh’s Leadership?

August 13, 2026August 29, 2026 editor 2 Comments

In 2024, Bangladesh’s summer turned bloody, not because of the intense heat, from a protest that turned streets into a battleground, leaving 1,400+ dead by the United Nations’ own estimate, a number that still defines how the country sees its politics today. The same ‘heat’ has gripped the region, Sri Lanka’s Aragalaya movement that toppled…

Economy & Policy Governance

Atharo Ana Bangaliana: Reimagining Bengali Identity for a Global Age

August 13, 2026August 13, 2026 editor No Comments

In an age when people cross borders more easily than cultures do, questions of identity take on new urgency. For millions of Bengalis dispersed across continents, the challenge is not merely preserving heritage but finding meaningful ways to live it, share it, and pass it on. Against this backdrop emerges Atharo Ana Bangaliana (AAB), a…

Art, Literature, History & National Heritage

Indian Education Minister’s resignation vs. Bangladesh Education Minister’s decision not to: signal of failure or accountability?

August 13, 2026August 13, 2026 editor 1 Comment

When India’s Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned on July 25, 2026, after weeks of protest by the Cockroach Janta Party, a youth-led movement that followed the leak of a medical entrance exam paper, it marked a rare concession by the government. The party’s core demand was the resignation of the education minister over the NEET-UG…

Education

India’s Entertainment Industry: A Blueprint for Bangladesh’s Creative Economy

August 13, 2026August 13, 2026 editor No Comments

Entertainment has emerged from a source of leisure and culture expression to a driver of strategic economic powerhouse that creates employments, magnetize investment, boost tourism, and enhance international influence. Globally, the creative sector, comprising media and entertainment (like film, television, streaming services, video contents and radio), digital media and gaming (animation, VFX, digital content creation,…

Trade, Commerce & Industry

When the Spotlight Meets the Podium: How Bangladesh’s Cultural Industry Became a Casualty of Partisan Politics

August 13, 2026August 13, 2026 editor No Comments

This article examines a question Bangladesh has avoided asking directly for too long: what happens to a nation’s cultural life when its singers, actors and film producers become instruments of party politics rather than independent voices. It looks at how state patronage, weak institutions and the absence of legal safeguards allowed this fusion to take…

Art, Literature, History & National Heritage

India and Bangladesh’s Education Policies in the Age of Generative AI

August 13, 2026August 13, 2026 editor No Comments

India’s Head Start in Policy Preparedness India’s greatest advantage is that it had already established a policy foundation for modernising its education system before the arrival of generative AI. The National Education Policy 2020 placed strong emphasis on critical thinking, problem solving, and practical skills. In addition, the Central Board of Secondary Education has taken…

Education

Poverty and Rural Development in Bangladesh and Ethiopia: A Comparative Analysis

August 13, 2026August 13, 2026 editor No Comments

Bangladesh and Ethiopia are often cited together in development literature as two of the more instructive cases in recent decades, countries that achieved meaningful poverty reduction through periods of sustained growth, only to see that progress slow or reverse under the weight of external shocks and structural weaknesses. Drawing on recent World Bank assessments, this…

Agriculture

Environmental Degradation in the Hills and the Crisis of Regional Harmony

August 13, 2026August 13, 2026 editor No Comments

The dumping of municipal and medical waste across mountain streams and agricultural land in Lemuzhiri, Bandarban, is more than an environmental disaster. It is deeply connected to local governance, citizens’ rights, public health, livelihoods, and social harmony in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. The lives and livelihoods, culture, and religious practices of indigenous hill communities are…

Sustainability & Urban Planning

Sports Economy in Bangladesh

August 13, 2026August 13, 2026 editor No Comments

Bangladesh has emerged as one of the most passionate cricketing nations on the planet, and the economic dimensions of that passion are becoming impossible to ignore. From a modest cricketing outpost that only gained test status in 2000, the country now commands a sports market estimated at roughly 40 to 43.5 million dollars annually, with…

Economy & Policy Governance