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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
constitutional
The office is focused on managing internal morale following mass resignations while prioritizing the reduction of the judicial case backlog.
Attorney General met with the Ministry of Liberation War Affairs to discuss case backlogs and inter-institutional coordination.
The Attorney General represented the state in the Appellate Division to stay a High Court judgment regarding a separate secretariat for the Supreme Court.
Eighteen law officers resigned from the Office of the Attorney General citing failures to implement the July Charter and ordinance cancellations.
The Attorney General announced the submission of 1,400 priority cases for disposal to address the High Court case backlog.
The Office of the Attorney General is a constitutional body, not a ministry or department; it has no annual budget line published separately in the Finance Division's budget documents. The AGO operates under the Bangladesh Law Officers Order, 1972, and Constitution Article 64. The AG is ex-officio Chairman of the Bangladesh Bar Council. Chronology of AGs immediately preceding the current: (16th) Barrister Raghib Rauf Chowdhury; (17th) Md Asaduzzaman (appointed August 8, 2024, resigned December 27, 2025 to contest elections as BNP candidate; won Jhenaidah-1 and was sworn in as Law Minister on February 17, 2026); (18th) Barrister Ruhul Quddus Kazal (appointed March 25, 2026, office had been vacant for ~87 days). The official website is https://ag.gov.bd (also accessible via https://attorneygeneral.gov.bd). No public figure is available for the AGO's sanctioned staff count or annual budget allocation; law officers' individual retainer and allowance rates are set by gazette under the Bangladesh Law Officers Order, 1972. The Adani arbitration at SIAC (initiated by Adani Power, claiming ~$485 million in unpaid dues) is being handled by UK chambers 3 Verulam Building (KC Farhaz Khan) on behalf of BPDB, with the AGO holding state-side legal oversight responsibility. Verification: all appointment facts cross-checked against BSS, Daily Star, TBS, Prothom Alo, and New Age (5 sources for the core AG appointment); constitutional basis cross-checked against bdlaws.minlaw.gov.bd primary text.