How the Ganges and Brahmaputra Created Bengal?
Two rivers, born hundreds of kilometres apart in the high Himalayas, spent tens of millions of years hauling a mountain range down to the sea. In doing so, they built…
Before Bengal: The Story of a Land Yet to Be Named
Millions of years before anyone spoke of Bengal, before there were farmers, fishermen or kingdoms, the very ground beneath them was still being built. This is the story of how…
Before Bengal: The Forgotten Story of the First People Who Called This Land Home
Long before kingdoms, emperors and the Bengali language emerged, the rivers, forests and floodplains of Bengal nurtured generations of hunter-gatherers, early farmers and pioneering communities. This is the story of…
Bangladesh Forms High Level Cabinet Committee to Finalise Cyber Security Law Overhaul
Five senior ministers will review the proposed Cyber Security (Amendment) Act, 2026 before it is placed for final approval.
China Pushes Bangladesh–China–Myanmar Economic Corridor, Says It Could Help Rohingya Repatriation
Beijing says the connectivity initiative is open to other countries and aims to strengthen regional economic cooperation while deepening ties with Bangladesh.
Why Has Bengal Spent Eight Hundred Years Refusing to Bow to Delhi?
From bamboo forts that stopped Mughal cannons to a capital city that was literally moved because Bengal would not behave, this is the story of a region that has never…
250 Million Bengalis Were Asked To Pick History’s Greatest Icon Ever, Here’s Who Made The Cut And Why They Deserve It
From a bamboo fort rebel to a Nobel winning poet, from a physicist who talked to plants to the father of a nation, meet the twenty legends that an entire…
Meet The Forgotten King Who Invented Bengal, Then Vanished From Its Memory
Fourteen centuries before anyone spoke of a Bengali nation, a warrior chief named Shashanka welded a patchwork of rival territories into the region's first true kingdom, gave it a calendar…
Was Bengal’s First King Really Chosen by the People, or Is It History’s Most Beautiful Myth?
Inside the eighth century chaos that gave birth to Gopala I, the soldier turned monarch who founded the Pala dynasty, and the very shaky evidence behind the legend that he…
How Muslim Sultans Rescued Bengali From a Thousand Years of Royal Neglect
Long before poets and printing presses, it took a handful of open minded rulers to turn a "commoner's tongue" into a language of pride