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1. Article · Sep 5, 2026 · Nur Nishat Anjum

   We keep importing our energy security. Why not build it at home? (opens the original)

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   On August 11, Bangladesh faced a severe 3,592-megawatt electricity shortage—enough to power several mid-sized cities. Demand had peaked at 18,043 MW, but supply could not climb past 14,451 MW. In a garment belt town like Gazipur, the gap meant a mother cooking with firewood because the stove had no gas pressure, or a worker losing a shift. Scale that night across a country, and it becomes a pattern. That pattern has been building since July 21, when a technical fault at a floating LNG terminal o

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2. Article · Jul 12, 2026 · Nur Nishat Anjum

   Bangladesh just passed a law against hill-cutting. Why does it skip the Chittagong Hill Tracts? (opens the original)

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   In January, the government issued the Land Use Control and Agricultural Land Protection Act, 2026, a sweeping new law criminalising hill-cutting, wetland-filling, and the removal of topsoil for brick kilns, with penalties of up to two years’ imprisonment or fines of up to Tk 2 lakh or both. The law explicitly bans tobacco cultivation on multi-crop land. It is, on paper, exactly the kind of legal instrument the country’s hill ecosystems have needed for decades. However, interestingly, none of it

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