Though the prevalence of thin traffic across Dhaka's streets and eerie silence in its allies is a usual sight for the city during Eid breaks, this will continue a bit longer this year as the holiday ...

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 ...

Nawab Islam Khan had gone down in history as one of the most iconic Mughal subahdars, a leader who successfully brought (majority of) Bengal under ... Mughal barges in Dhaka that belonged to ...

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 ...

His tenure in Bengal began in 1639, and a curious footnote would be that he actually stripped Dhaka of its status as a Mughal capital, shifting the seat of government to Rajmahal (a place now in ...