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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.
Parliament Watch
Jamaat-e-Islami · Nilphamari-4
MP Hafez Abdul Muntakim is currently facing political fallout and loss of credibility due to inaccurate claims regarding his family's history during the Liberation War.
MP Hafez Abdul Muntakim claimed his father and grandfather were 1971 Liberation War martyrs during a budget session.
Muntakim issued a clarification after media scrutiny highlighted the biological impossibility of his father being a 1971 martyr.
The Speaker of Parliament announced that the MP's controversial statements would be expunged from the parliamentary minutes.
Winner vote count 124,865 from 169 centres per Financial Express (published Feb 12, 2026). Runner-up Abdul Gafur Sarkar (BNP) received 81,526 votes per same source; margin = 43,339 votes. Wikipedia (en) gives different figures: winner 126,222 votes (60.6%), runner-up 82,086 votes (39.4%), margin 44,136. Discrepancy (~1,357 votes each) likely reflects partial vs certified count; Financial Express figure used as primary (centre count specified). Total valid votes and percentage shares are null because total cannot be confirmed without complete candidate list from a primary source; nine candidates contested per viewsbangladesh.com. Registered voters: 425,028 (Saidpur 214,721 + Kishoreganj 210,307) per pre-election data; 179 draft polling centres (finalised to 169 centres per FE). Constituency covers Saidpur and Kishoreganj upazilas (boundaries unchanged since 2018 delimitation per Wikipedia). MP described himself as 'July movement activist and former detainee' in parliament during discussion on President's address (BSS, JS session report). He called for modernisation of Saidpur railway workshop and expansion of healthcare facilities. Party role as Saidpur Upazila Ameer confirmed by bd-pratidin.com. EC affidavit (wealth, criminal cases) not publicly accessible at time of verification; values are null, not zero. Parliamentary committee memberships not yet published as of verification date. verification_status is 'partial': vote count confirmed by 2 sources (with noted discrepancy), biographical details (age, education, wealth) unconfirmed. [2026-05-17 status bump: EC-gazetted public election result; partial-only secondary fields (wealth/cases) noted but not required for verified status]