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Presidential Election in Bangladesh and Democracy

August 20, 2026August 20, 2026 editor No Comments

The presidential election scheduled for 20 August 2026, prompted by the resignation of President Mohammed Shahabuddin before his term expired, presents a familiar spectacle. The Election Commission has published dates, nomination deadlines have been set, and voting will occur inside the Jatiya Sangsad session hall. Everything looks constitutional. Yet the real question goes unasked: is…

Politics, Democracy & Citizen Rights

Bangladesh Agriculture in UNSDG Framework

August 20, 2026August 20, 2026 editor No Comments

Bangladesh stands at a pivotal intersection. The country is preparing to exit the UN’s Least Developed Country category, currently expected by November 2029 after the UN Committee for Development Policy recommended a three-year extension, while simultaneously pursuing the UN Sustainable Development Goals with a 2030 deadline. Agriculture, which still employs over 44 percent of the…

Agriculture

Flickering Without Burning: Why Bangladeshi Cinema Keeps Failing the World Stage

August 20, 2026August 20, 2026 editor No Comments

Fifty four years after independence, Bangladeshi cinema has gathered a loyal domestic audience, kept its theatres breathing, and scattered a handful of critically lauded works across international festivals. What it has never done is arrive. Neighboring India, Iran, and South Korea each built recognizable national film brands; Bangladesh, after half a century of intermittent brilliance,…

Art, Literature, History & National Heritage

Review of 16 weeks Media and Digital Dissemination Articles in the Oniket Bulletin

August 20, 2026August 29, 2026 editor No Comments

The Oniket Bulletin has, over the past sixteen weeks, assembled a substantial body of twenty-four articles under its Media, Publishing and Digital Dissemination category, offering what amounts to one of the more ambitious single outlet surveys of Bangladesh’s media policy landscape in recent memory. This report critically evaluates the commissioning choices, thematic coverage, factual depth,…

Media, Publishing & Digital Dissemination

Power Generation in Bangladesh and Sustainability

August 20, 2026August 20, 2026 editor No Comments

The Oniket Bulletin analysis recently published on power generation in Bangladesh provides a valuable diagnostic of the structural, financial, and institutional weaknesses that have caused actual output to trail behind planned targets. It correctly identifies overdependence on imported fossil fuels, the perverse consequences of capacity payment contracts, and the bankability crisis in renewable energy tenders. …

Sustainability & Urban Planning

Health in the Oniket Bulletin: A Critical Review of Twenty-Six Articles

August 20, 2026August 29, 2026 editor No Comments

Across sixteen weeks, the Health section of The Oniket Bulletin has published twenty-six articles that collectively form one of the most thorough running commentaries on Bangladesh’s health policy landscape available in the country’s independent digital press. A careful reading reveals an editorial strategy that is deliberate yet occasionally uneven, shifting between pressing headline concerns and…

Health

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 No 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