Bangla Panel is a free, data-light utility page for daily life in Bangladesh. It gathers four things that people search for at stressful moments and puts them on one fast page: flood and cyclone information (the maritime signal system No. 1–11 explained in plain language, FFWC danger-level basics, official links to the Flood Forecasting & Warning Centre and the Bangladesh Meteorological Department, plus a three-day rain outlook for Dhaka, Chattogram, Sylhet and Khulna), load-shedding links for BPDB, DESCO, DPDC, NESCO and REB with a guide to reading area-wise schedules, money tools — live mid-market USD, SAR, AED and MYR rates against the taka, a converter and a remittance calculator that includes the government's 2.5% cash incentive — and SSC/HSC result checking with the SMS formats, plus NID and e-passport service links. No app install, no account; it works on cheap data and old Android phones, in English or বাংলা.
Bangladesh uses a numbered signal system for its sea ports (Chattogram, Mongla, Payra, Cox's Bazar). The number is not a simple 1-to-11 "badness scale" — it encodes three things at once: how strong the storm is, how close it is, and which side of the port its centre is expected to pass. Signals 1–2 are distant alerts, 3–4 are local cautions, 5–7 are Danger signals (winds 62–88 km/h), and 8–10 are Great Danger signals (winds 89 km/h and above, hurricane force). Signal 11 is special: it means communication with the storm warning centre has broken down and catastrophic weather is feared. River ports use a separate, smaller 1–4 set, so a "No. 3" on the river is not the same as a "No. 3" at sea.
| Signal | Name | Wind | Meaning for the port |
|---|---|---|---|
| No. 1 | Distant Cautionary | squalls possible far at sea | A storm may form in the distant deep sea; departing ships could meet rough weather en route. |
| No. 2 | Distant Warning | storm formed, far away | A storm exists in the distant sea; vessels leaving port may be in danger, the port itself is not yet threatened. |
| No. 3 | Local Cautionary | up to 40–50 km/h | The port is threatened by squally weather. |
| No. 4 | Local Warning | 51–61 km/h | A storm is nearby and the port is likely to be affected, but the danger is not yet great. |
| No. 5 | Danger | 62–88 km/h | The storm will cross the coast keeping the port on its left. |
| No. 6 | Danger | 62–88 km/h | Same severity as No. 5, but the port stays on the storm's right. |
| No. 7 | Danger | 62–88 km/h | Same severity, but the storm will pass over or very near the port. |
| No. 8 | Great Danger | 89 km/h + | A severe cyclone will cross the coast keeping the port on its left. |
| No. 9 | Great Danger | 89 km/h + | Same severity, port on the storm's right. |
| No. 10 | Great Danger | 89 km/h + | A severe cyclone will pass over or very near the port — the highest alert. |
| No. 11 | Communication Failure | — | Contact with the storm warning centre is lost; devastating weather is feared. |
Newcomers often assume No. 7 must be much worse than No. 5. In wind terms it is not — all three describe the same 62–88 km/h storm band. The difference is geometry: whether the cyclone's centre will cross the coast to the left of the port, to the right of it, or straight over it. That detail matters enormously to mariners, because a northern-hemisphere cyclone's right-front quadrant carries the strongest onshore winds and the highest storm surge. A port kept on the storm's right side (No. 6 / No. 9) can face worse surge than the raw signal number suggests. The same left/right/over logic repeats one level up in the Great Danger set: 8 mirrors 5, 9 mirrors 6, and 10 mirrors 7 at hurricane intensity.
No. 10 is the highest working signal in the system. It means a severe cyclone with sustained winds of 89 km/h or more — often far more — is expected to pass directly over or very near the port. Historically, No. 10 has been hoisted for the deadliest storms to strike the Bay of Bengal coast, and it is the trigger for mass evacuation to cyclone shelters coordinated by the Cyclone Preparedness Programme's volunteers. If No. 10 is announced for your area: move to a shelter or a strong concrete building immediately, keep away from the shoreline and low embankments because storm surge — not wind — causes most deaths, carry dry food, water, medicines and documents in a waterproof bag, and follow volunteer megaphone instructions. Do not wait "to see how bad it gets".
The Flood Forecasting & Warning Centre (FFWC) monitors water levels at stations on the Ganges/Padma, Brahmaputra/Jamuna, Meghna, Surma-Kushiyara and other rivers. Each station has a pre-defined danger level — a water height at which the river begins to flood adjacent low-lying land protected by that gauge. When a bulletin says a station is "45 cm above danger level", it means the water surface is 45 centimetres higher than that threshold, and nearby floodplains, chars and unprotected homesteads are likely already inundating. Rule of thumb: above danger level means an active flood situation; roughly a metre or more above usually indicates a severe flood with embankment stress. Rising versus falling trend matters as much as the number, so always read the FFWC forecast alongside the level itself.
The Bay of Bengal has two cyclone seasons: pre-monsoon (April–May) and post-monsoon (October–November). The pre-monsoon window has produced many of Bangladesh's most destructive storms because the shallow, funnel-shaped bay amplifies storm surge into the low-lying delta. Sensible preparation is cheap: know the location of your nearest cyclone shelter before the season starts, keep phone power banks charged when a depression forms, store drinking water and dry food for 2–3 days, and keep NID cards and land documents in a sealed plastic bag. Listen for signal changes on radio, TV and mosque announcements — the jump from No. 4 to No. 8 can happen within a day as a storm intensifies over warm water.
Official results are published on educationboardresults.gov.bd
(with eboardresults.com as the boards' alternate portal) — you need
your roll and registration number. The SMS channel works even when websites are overloaded: send a message to
16222 in the pattern SSC <first 3 letters of board> <roll> <year>, e.g.
SSC DHA 123456 2026; use HSC for HSC, and MAD / TEC for Madrasah and
Technical boards. Formats occasionally change, so verify the current year's instructions in the official press release.
Result-day survival tips: the first 1–2 hours after publication are the worst for server load — the SMS route and the
alternate portal usually respond first, and board-wise full-marksheet options appear once traffic settles.
| Exam | SMS format → 16222 | Example |
|---|---|---|
| SSC | SSC <board> <roll> <year> | SSC DHA 123456 2026 |
| HSC | HSC <board> <roll> <year> | HSC RAJ 654321 2026 |
| Dakhil (Madrasah) | DAKHIL MAD <roll> <year> | DAKHIL MAD 123456 2026 |
| SSC Vocational | SSC TEC <roll> <year> | SSC TEC 123456 2026 |
Board codes: DHA (Dhaka), RAJ (Rajshahi), COM (Cumilla), JES (Jashore), CHI (Chattogram), BAR (Barishal), SYL (Sylhet), DIN (Dinajpur), MYM (Mymensingh), MAD (Madrasah), TEC (Technical). Standard SMS charges apply.
To pull remittances out of informal hundi networks, the government pays a cash incentive — 2.5% of the remitted amount — on money sent home through legal banking channels, mobile financial services and licensed exchange houses. The incentive is credited automatically with the payout for ordinary amounts; larger transfers may need simple paperwork such as proof of employment abroad. The practical math matters: a hundi dealer may quote a slightly better street rate, but the legal route adds 2.5% on top of the bank rate, creates a paper trail that helps with loans and visas, and carries none of the legal risk — hundi is illegal on both ends of the transfer. Use the calculator in the TAKA tab to compare a provider's quote (fee plus exchange-rate margin) against the mid-market rate with the incentive included.
When generation falls short, distribution companies publish area-wise load-shedding schedules: your feeder or area name mapped to one or more time blocks when supply may be cut. To read one, first identify which company serves you — DESCO (northern Dhaka), DPDC (southern Dhaka), NESCO (Rajshahi/Rangpur region), West Zone (Khulna region) or REB/palli bidyut samity (most rural areas) — then find your feeder or block name on that company's schedule page, which is usually your neighbourhood or substation name rather than your postal address. Schedules shift day to day with the supply-demand gap, so treat published slots as "most likely windows", not guarantees, and expect extra unscheduled cuts during heat waves and gas shortages.
National ID services live at services.nidw.gov.bd. For a correction (name spelling, date of birth, etc.): register an account with your NID/form number and face verification, apply under the correction category with scanned supporting documents (SSC certificate, birth certificate — the SSC certificate carries the most weight for name/DOB), pay the government fee through mobile banking, and track the application status in the same portal. E-passport applications and status checks are at epassport.gov.bd — you need your Online Registration ID (OID) or application ID plus date of birth. Both services are free to check; anyone demanding money "to speed up a status" is running a scam.
Exchange rates come from open.er-api.com — daily mid-market reference rates, not the street or bank counter rate; providers always quote differently, which is exactly what the remittance calculator measures. The rain outlook uses the free Open-Meteo forecast API for Dhaka, Chattogram, Sylhet and Khulna. Everything else on this page is a curated link to an official source: FFWC and BMD for flood and cyclone bulletins, BPDB/DESCO/DPDC/NESCO/REB for power, the education boards for results, NIDW and DIP for identity documents. This page performs no lookups on your behalf, stores nothing on any server, and never asks for personal data. Signal meanings and danger-level explanations are original plain-language summaries of the official definitions — the live official bulletin always wins.
No. 4 means a storm is nearby and the port is likely to be affected, with winds up to 51–61 km/h — disruptive, but not yet a Danger signal. The serious escalation points are No. 5–7 (Danger, 62–88 km/h) and No. 8–10 (Great Danger, 89 km/h+). Treat No. 4 as your cue to prepare, because signals can jump quickly.
Each FFWC river station has a fixed danger level — the height where flooding of nearby low land begins. "50 cm above" means the river is half a metre over that line, so adjacent floodplains are likely already flooding. Whether it is rising or falling matters as much as the number.
Send SSC <first 3 letters of your board> <roll> <year> to 16222 — for example
SSC DHA 123456 2026. Use HSC for HSC, DAKHIL MAD for Madrasah, SSC TEC for Technical. Verify the current
year's format in the official notice, as it can change.
A government cash bonus of 2.5% added to remittances that arrive through legal channels (banks, licensed exchange houses, MFS). It is credited with the payout for normal amounts. Hundi transfers get no incentive, no paper trail, and are illegal.
Schedules are feeder-based, not city-wide. Two neighbourhoods on different feeders — even adjacent ones — can have entirely different cut windows, and each distribution company (DESCO, DPDC, NESCO, REB…) publishes its own schedule.
No. There are no accounts and no server-side storage. Your language and tab preferences are kept only in your own browser's localStorage, and nothing you type in the terminal leaves your device.