A draft law responding to fraud cases includes necessary reforms—but also an ownership restriction that will stifle the growth of the sector and contradict Bangladesh's economic priorities. Bangladesh's travel agency sector faces some serious challenges. In recent years, several offline and online travel agencies have been involved in fraud cases. Customers lost money on tickets […]
Mir Shahrukh Islam is the Managing Director and CEO of Bondstein Technologies Limited, a Dhaka-based technology company that has been doing fascinating work across telematics and connecting machines, factories, and complex industrial systems using technologies like AI, ML, IoT, AR, VR, custom software solutions, and design. When Shahrukh first appeared in our pages in 2015, […]
Huawei origin story, an interview with Kaz Software founder and CEO, a story on how Brain Station 23 built a national level e-ticketing platform in 8 weeks, an analysis on recent bank deposit protection ordinance, and our eclectic weekly reading suggestions. All links are below. I. The Origin of Huawei: When Desperation Becomes Strategy Most […]
As Bangladesh prepares for the polls in early 2026, a coalition of civic groups is trying something ambitious: building serious conversation and consensus on economic reforms before the election campaign begins in earnest and serious policy discussions take a back seat. The Economic Reform Summit, scheduled for Oct. 27-28 at the Lakeshore Hotel in Dhaka, […]
In October 2025, Bangladesh's interim government announced the Deposit Protection Ordinance, and one should acknowledge what the ordinance gets right before examining what it misses. The technical improvements are meaningful. Doubling coverage from Tk 100,000 to Tk 200,000 provides tangible protection to 93% of depositors—the small savers, pensioners, and middle-class families whose accounts represent their […]
In a recent, expansive conversation with Future Startup, journalist and writer Sabidin Ibrahim offered a glimpse into the intellectual foundations and lived realities that shaped his worldview. The interview, spanning his formative years in Cumilla to his interesting student life at Dhaka University, serves both as a personal reflection as well as a sociological critique […]
Imagine being handed a project with a ticking clock: eight weeks to build an e-ticketing platform for the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) 2025, a 40-day, 24-event, and 46-match cricket extravaganza drawing millions of fans. The system needs to handle 25,000 average tickets per day, validate them at chaotic stadium gates across 3 venues (Dhaka, Chittagong, […]
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