In the history books used in school, I was taught that in 1610, the Mughal custodian Islam Khan came to Dhaka to remove the powerful kings and zaminders of Bengal. He decided to establish the capital ...

There is an area in Old Dhaka which is referred to as Chandnighat. How did it get such a romantic name? Chandni (Moonlight) was in fact the name of a royal Mughal barge, and the ghat it was kept ...

Though its roots extend back to the 1st millennium CE, Dhaka didn't ascend to prominence until the 17th century. It then flourished as the capital of the Muslim Mughal dynasty of Bengal province (1608 ...

India Today Fact Check, however, found that this 2024 video shows an angry husband cutting his wife's hair after a fight in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka. Reverse searching keyframes from the viral ...