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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 · off campus · Dhaka
Professor Dr. A. S. M. Amanullah continues to serve as the Vice-Chancellor while overseeing a transition to merit-based admissions and skill-based curriculum reforms.
The university conducted its first MCQ-based undergraduate admission test across 138 centers.
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman inaugurated a teacher training program and the One Student, One Tree project.
Online application process for the 2025-26 undergraduate Honours program officially commenced.
The 28th Senate session approved a Tk801.04 crore budget for the 2026-27 financial year.
University issued notices regarding exam center lists and fee waivers for students injured in the July 2024 uprising.
Largest university in Bangladesh by enrolment; Wikipedia cites second-largest in the world (3,425,832 total students: 1,755,256 undergraduate, 334,653 postgraduate, 184 doctoral, 7,048 other). Faculty count of 159,375 and student count are aggregates across all 2,257 affiliated institutions, not NU's own direct staff. Budget figure Tk 690.17 crore (FY 2025-26) is NU's own institutional budget approved by its Senate on June 28, 2025; this is separate from the much larger aggregate expenditure across affiliated colleges. annual_budget_bdt stored as integer in BDT (690 crore = 6,900,000,000; 690.17 crore = 69,017,470,000 approx). Pro-VC Nurul Islam left on March 16, 2026 to become DCU VC; Lutfor Rahman confirmed active as Pro-VC at ACCA MoU signing (April 7, 2026) and admission result press conference (May 3, 2026). Registrar name not publicly identified in sources found; field left null. VC Amanullah was excluded from both the March 16, 2026 (7-university) and May 14, 2026 (11-university) VC reshuffle batches. DCU ordinance (Feb 2026) transferred seven large Dhaka government colleges from National University affiliation; these colleges previously contributed approximately 200,000 students to NU's total. The student_count of 3,425,832 from Wikipedia may therefore overstate the post-DCU separation figure but no revised official count has been published as of 2026-05-18. campus_count set to 1 for NU's own Gazipur headquarters campus (the 2,257 colleges are affiliated institutions, not NU campuses). ugc_recognized confirmed via UGC university detail page (http://ugc-universities.gov.bd/university-detail/52).