Dhaka Days News Portal
A bilingual (Bangla & English) online newspaper for Bangladesh — breaking news, a 64-district geographic taxonomy, and 20+ topical sections, published from the edge with a CDN-backed image pipeline.
Dhaka Days is a bilingual online newspaper for Bangladesh, publishing national, regional, and international news in both Bangla and English. The Bangla edition lives at dhakadays.com and an English edition at en.dhakadays.com, sharing a single design system and publishing pipeline so the newsroom maintains one site, not two.
Highlights
- Two editions, one publication — every section, article, and component is built once and rendered in both Bangla and English, with typography tuned for each script.
- A deep news taxonomy — readers can browse by topic (politics, economy, sports, entertainment, technology, education, health, lifestyle, and more — many with their own subsections) or by place, drilling from Bangladesh down through its 8 administrative divisions to all 64 districts.
- Built for a newsroom — a breaking-news ticker, a curated Top News front page, a live Latest feed, and article pages with hero imagery, bylines, share actions, and related-story rails.
- Fast everywhere — pages are statically prerendered and incrementally revalidated, so fresh news ships within minutes while every request is served from the edge.
Build notes
The site is built with Next.js (App Router) and React in TypeScript, styled with
Tailwind CSS, and deployed on Vercel. Pages use Incremental Static Regeneration
(roughly a five-minute revalidation window) so the front page and category feeds
stay current without rebuilding the whole site. Photography is served through a
Bunny CDN image pipeline, and Bangla typography is loaded with next/font
(Hanuman and Noto Serif Bengali) for crisp, fast-loading text — right down to a
print stylesheet for clean article printouts.
Built and running in production at dhakadays.com, with an English edition at en.dhakadays.com.