Mukto Provat

The brief

Mukto Provat is a Bengali-language news portal covering national news, politics, sport, lifestyle, religion, and local stories from across Bangladesh. The existing site at muktoprovat.com.bd had reached its limits. I'm rebuilding it from scratch — for readers, and for the newsroom that publishes to it every day.

The reading side

• Twenty-plus sections — National, Elections, World, Across the Country, Sport, Entertainment, Opinion, Diaspora, Citizen News, and more — each with its own listing and sub-sections.
• Local news by place. Division, district, and upazila filters, so a reader in one town can find stories from it.
• Video and photo galleries, most-read and trending lists, and a personalised "For You" feed.
• Bengali-first details — Bengali calendar dates, Bengali numerals, and an e-paper link.

The newsroom

The part readers never see is the bigger half of the build:

• An editorial workflow — draft, submit for review, approve, schedule, archive — with separate Bangla and English desks.
• Live-update articles for breaking stories, appended and ended from the editor.
• Homepage curation — editors choose featured stories and reorder sections without a developer.
• Menus, pages, tags, and ad placements, all managed in the admin.
• A media library with automatic watermarking and generated thumbnails.
• Settings for SEO, social, tracking, navigation, widgets, and cache — plus maintenance mode.
• Team roles, two-factor sign-in, notifications, and an audit log of every change.

Under the hood

Next.js 16 with TypeScript, Prisma for data, Better Auth with two-factor authentication, a TipTap rich-text editor, media on Amazon S3 with Sharp-generated thumbnails, and Upstash Redis for caching hot pages.