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Institutions
Bank Watch: scheduled banks tracked on stability metrics.
Parliament Watch: members and their activity.
University Watch: the higher-education system, tracked.
NGO Watch: civil society and development NGOs, tracked.
Development Partner Watch: the donors, tracked.
Industry Association Watch: the apex chambers, tracked.
Early warning
The Crisis Orb: a live, level-anchored hazard board.
The LDC 2029 graduation monitor.
The national early-warning board across hazards.
Early warning for the haor flood basin.
The multi-hazard exposure atlas, by district.
Where hazards compound across the same places.
A priority index ranking places by combined risk.
Cropland exposed to flood, heat, and salinity.
The bank distress watch: stress signals across banks.
The disaster ledger: events and losses over time.
Government Watch
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The Armed Forces Division is managing the transition from domestic Aid to Civil Power deployments back to a traditional peacetime posture while balancing requirements for political stability.
Defence Adviser AKM Shamsul Islam met with the US Ambassador to discuss military-level cooperation.
Government directed the AFD to deploy army personnel in six districts to maintain law and order.
Defence Adviser AKM Shamsul Islam met with the Pakistan High Commissioner to discuss military cooperation and training.
Defence Adviser AKM Shamsul Islam met with the Japanese Ambassador to discuss defense cooperation and modernization.
AFD was raised in December 1978 as Commander-in-Chief's Secretariat under MoD; renamed Supreme Command Headquarters November 1986; given division status and renamed again 1989; renamed Armed Forces Division on shift to parliamentary system 1991; integrated into PMO October 1994. The PSO holds the rank of lieutenant general and is equivalent to a senior secretary of the Government of Bangladesh. AFD's annual budget of Tk 47 crore is a narrow administrative allocation; operational/procurement budgets for the three services (Tk 38,728 crore) are administered under MoD. The current_head and head_since reflect the April 6, 2026 Cabinet Division notification giving Shamsul Islam additional charge; prior to that date the AFD lacked a designated civilian head after the February 17 new government formation. The budget figure Tk 47 crore = BDT 470,000,000 (1 crore = 10,000,000) sourced from MoF budget portal and corroborated by bdmilitary.com. UN peacekeeping: 6,359 personnel in 9 active missions as of AFD website data (cross-checked against worldpopulationreview.com April 2026 figure of 5,568 -- discrepancy likely reflects AFD's tri-service total vs UN DPO Army-only count; AFD figure used as primary source for tri-service total). staff_count not publicly disclosed at sanctioned-post level.