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Bank Watch: scheduled banks tracked on stability metrics.
Parliament Watch: members and their activity.
Government Watch: the executive, tracked over time.
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.
University Watch
public · general · Dhaka
The university is managing the logistical challenge of integrating seven government colleges into an autonomous framework while establishing its own infrastructure.
The National Parliament of Bangladesh passed the Dhaka Central University Bill 2026.
DCU published its admission circular for the 2025–2026 academic year.
Deadline for admission application fee payments.
The university released admit cards for undergraduate admission tests.
DCU is a genuine, newly established institution -- not a proposal or renamed college. Established by ordinance on 2026-02-08 as a federal university affiliating seven historic Dhaka government colleges (total ~200,000 students, ~1,000 faculty across all seven). Not a new standalone campus: each college retains its site and identity. Established year set to 2026 (gazette effective date). Student and faculty counts are aggregates across all seven affiliated colleges per press reports; no disaggregated DCU-only figure yet published. Annual budget is unverified: no UGC allocation or finance ministry budget line found for DCU as a standalone entity as of 2026-05-18 (one press report flagged a 'thousand crore' infrastructure burden on the new government but gave no specific figure). VC history: interim government appointed ASM Abdul Hasib (BUET) on 2026-02-16 who never joined; BNP-Tarique government replaced him with Prof. Md. Nurul Islam (JU/National University) effective 2026-03-17. ugc_recognized set true per UGC university list (http://www.ugc-universities.gov.bd/university-detail/245, SSL error prevented direct fetch but UGC ID 245 confirmed in search results). campus_count set to 7 reflecting the seven affiliate college campuses. Website dcu.ac.bd confirmed in multiple sources; dcu.bd is a separate admission-portal domain.