The High Court has ruled that denmohor is a wife’s independent financial right and a husband’s legal obligation. Financial hardship cannot cancel the liability, though courts may permit instalments in genuine cases. A woman’s dower cannot be waived by any court unless she voluntarily gives it up without pressure or un…
Chinese doctors have achieved a medical breakthrough by shrinking a lung tumour in an unborn baby at 22 weeks of pregnancy. Using a fine ablation needle guided by real-time ultrasound, they applied microwave energy to d…
How Instagram, students and Tk 300 finds turned second-hand clothes into Dhaka's newest fashion trend
Inside Dhaka's free animal ambulance service, getting injured street dogs and cats from the roadside to the vet
Inside Chattogram's shipbreaking yards, where the world's old ships are torn apart and workers pay the price
How vinyl printing is erasing the hand-painted art that turned Dhaka's rickshaws into moving galleries
How hilsa, Bangladesh's national fish, became a tool of smuggling, diplomacy and politics, and why ordinary people now struggle to afford it.
