Lone genocide museum closed for 17 months
The country’s only genocide museum in Khulna has remained closed for visitors for around 17 months.
9 December 2025, 18:35 PM
E-waste mismanagement puts Khulna at risk
Khulna city’s poor handling of electronic waste has become a serious threat to public health and the environment.
20 November 2025, 21:33 PM
Unchecked snail harvest threatens Khulna ecology
Unchecked collection of snails from swamps, croplands and waterbodies in Khulna and neighbouring areas is posing a serious threat to the region’s ecological balance.
1 November 2025, 18:00 PM
Business Plus / Sundarbans faces a new test as eco-tourism surges
More Bangladeshis, foreign visitors are heading into the world's largest mangrove forest
31 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Khulna on edge amid rise in murders
After dusk, an eerie silence descends on Khulna city. Fear creeps into homes, roads, and alleyways alike -- fear of another murder, another lifeless body found somewhere.
17 October 2025, 19:52 PM
Dacope Upazila / 40hrs on, no repair to breached Dhaki embankment
More than 40 hours after the collapse of an embankment on the Dhaki river in Khulna’s Dacope upazila, authorities have yet to take any step for repairs, while water continues to inundate vast areas, submerging homes, croplands, and fish enclosures.
9 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Sheikhpura boat market: Sustaining livelihoods in a drying delta
In the southwestern delta of Bangladesh, where roads vanish under monsoon waters, boats are critical for survival. Whether it is fishing, visiting the local bazaar, harvesting crops, or going to school, the rainy season demands one thing above all — a boat. This necessity has made the vessel an indispensable part of the rural economy. For those looking to buy one, the best destination remains the century-old Sheikhpura boat market in Khulna’s Terokhada upazila.
6 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Shipyard Road left in ruins for over a decade
For more than a decade, Shipyard Road stretching from Khulna’s Rupsha Traffic Intersection to Khan Jahan Ali (Rupsha) Bridge has been a nightmare for commuters, businesses and students. What was once a bustling artery of trade and transport has turned into a pothole-ridden stretch.
2 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Fish, vegetable prices go up in Khulna after Eid
The wholesale and retail prices of vegetables and fish have shot up in Khulna right after Eid celebrations, due to inadequate supply -- creating a burden for those belonging to the lower-income group.
16 July 2022, 04:00 AM
In a dire state for 50 years
Khulna Infectious Disease Hospital has been facing multiple problems for over the last fifty years. This, in turn, has made it almost impossible to offer quality treatment to patients.
8 July 2022, 18:00 PM
Only 1.5hrs rain drowns Khulna
Moderate rain inundated around two-thirds of Khulna city yesterday, causing immense sufferings to residents.
30 June 2022, 18:00 PM
Khulna city chokes on dust
Khulna city dwellers have been facing intense dust pollution for the last couple of years, as long stretches of roads and drains are being reconstructed under different development projects.
22 June 2022, 18:00 PM
Money spent on dredging gone to waste
Only two years after the Tk 46.25 crore re-excavation project was taken for Bhadra river in Khulna’s Dumuria upazila, it has once again been filled with silt. According to Water Development Board (WDB) officials, the amount of silt deposited on the riverbed is higher in the southwestern region, Dumuria being one.
10 June 2022, 18:00 PM
The vulgar disparity of life
Nur Alom (47) was a substitute worker at a Khulna jute mill that shut down on July 1, 2020.
1 June 2022, 18:00 PM
Neglected for 12yrs, bypass road being renovated by locals in Khulna
A major road of the city, unfit due to lack of maintenance for 12 years. Multiple complaints were made to the authorities but to no avail.
21 May 2022, 04:30 AM
Chuknagar: A sea of blood
The massacre began at 11:00am and ended at 5:00pm. More than 10,000 people were killed by a platoon of Pakistani army, according to local historians.
20 May 2022, 03:08 AM
Pages turning to dust: Khulna Public Library overlooked, ignored
A library of almost six decades, with a collection of 1,27,000 books. An average of 150 readers every day, intently studying with pin-drop silence in the spacious reading room.
22 April 2022, 18:00 PM
The death of a river
The road on the west of Dumuria’s Baliakhali bridge had to be crossed through the mighty Hamkura on ferries. The road is still there. The river, however, is not.
17 April 2022, 18:00 PM
Nana Halim, a 30-yr-old Khulna delicacy
Around 3:00pm, South Central Road of Khulna city remains almost empty due to the scorching heat. However, an opposite scenario can be noticed on the footpath in front of Government Pioneer Women’s College. With a canopy overhead, vendors have set up iftar stalls. Of these stalls, “Nana Special Halim” continues to gather a large crowd.
15 April 2022, 18:00 PM
Local seeds for local needs
Seeds of local varieties -- preserved by families for generations -- have been the most adaptive way of cultivation for the distinct climatic conditions of the country’s coastal areas.
30 March 2022, 18:00 PM
Never forget
A microphone used in Bangabandhu’s March 7 speech, indigenous weapons used in the resistance war, clothes and telephone sets used by freedom fighters, transmitters used in refugee camps, letter from then Prime Minister Tajuddin Ahmed to his wife on the white part of an empty cigarette box, which says, “Johra, if you can, join the seven and a half crore Bangalees.”
26 March 2022, 18:00 PM
Water Crisis in the Southwest: ‘Paani Apa’ to the rescue
Mitu Sana, a homemaker from Gunari village at Khulna’s Dakop upazila, has to go to the Union Parishad pond -- far from her home -- to fetch drinking water.
21 March 2022, 18:00 PM
Water Crisis in the Southwest: ‘Paani Apa’ to the rescue
Mitu Sana, a homemaker from Gunari village at Khulna’s Dakop upazila, has to go to the Union Parishad pond -- far from her home -- to fetch drinking water.
21 March 2022, 18:00 PM
Illegal housing galore in Khulna
As many as 108 illegal housing projects have allegedly emerged in Khulna and adjacent areas -- on arable land, water bodies and tidal floodplain -- without any approval from Khulna Development Authority (KDA) and Department of Environment (DoE).
11 March 2022, 18:00 PM
Climate change harsher on women in coastal areas
In May last year, 40-year-old Sunita Das, from Gatirgheri village of Khulna’s Koyra, lost her home to cyclone Yaas. More than 50 villages in Koyra were submerged, and around 45 metres of the flood control dam of Shakbaria river in Gatirgheri were washed away at the time.
7 March 2022, 18:00 PM
Karuna, a pioneer in seed preservation
Sitting in her narrow yard, Karuna Mandal was sorting watermelon seeds. Nearly a hundred plastic and earthen pots, wrapped in polyethene and full of different kinds of seeds, lay in front of her.
7 March 2022, 18:00 PM
Nat’l Jute Day: Not for workers
Nilufa Akhter is a 36-year-old single mother of two who lost her husband six years ago.
5 March 2022, 18:00 PM
Despite ban, crab hunting goes unabated
Unauthorised fishing of mother crabs, especially during the ongoing breeding season in different rivers and canals in the coastal areas adjacent to the Sundarbans has been going on unabated.
2 March 2022, 18:00 PM