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Institutions
Bank Watch: scheduled banks tracked on stability metrics.
Government Watch: the executive, tracked over time.
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
BNP · Gaibandha-4
The MP is focused on the political and social consolidation of the post-uprising democratic transition and ensuring the mandates of the 2024 July Uprising are upheld.
MP Shamim Kaisar Lincoln delivered a speech in Parliament regarding the preservation of the July Uprising legacy.
Vote counts confirmed by two independent sources (BSS and BD-Pratidin): winner 142,772, runner-up 139,738. Full candidate vote breakdown (JP: 2,360; Independent: 1,552; IAB: 1,373; WPB: 368) sourced from election.results.com.bd via search aggregation; total valid votes 288,163 verified arithmetically (142772+139738+2360+1552+1373+368=288163). Vote share computed: 142772/288163=49.55%, 139738/288163=48.49%, margin=1.05 pp. MP's age is listed as born ~1980 on Wikipedia but no confirmed birth date found; age set null to avoid imputation. wealth_disclosed_bdt and criminal_cases are null: EC affidavit PDF not publicly accessible at time of verification. Prior term: won May 2006 by-election (8th Jatiya Sangsad) following death of incumbent Abdul Mottaleb Akanda under 4-party alliance ticket; did not serve subsequent terms (boycotted 2008 election). Gaibandha-4 was the sole BNP win in Gaibandha district; Jamaat won the other four seats. Registered voters: 468,384 (Jan 2026 roll: 231,616 male, 236,758 female, 10 other).