13 years on, Khulna Shipyard Road project still unfinished
20 July 2026, 00:00 AM
A Tk 280 crore road expansion project on one of Khulna city’s busiest entry routes has remained stalled for the past 10 months, leaving thousands of commuters to endure daily hardship while authorities remain uncertain about when construction will resume.
20 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Khulna city footpaths reoccupied after renovation
15 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Footpaths across Khulna city, renovated at a cost of hundreds of crores of taka to improve pedestrian mobility, are increasingly being reoccupied by hawkers, forcing people onto busy roads and creating daily safety risks.
15 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Heavy monsoon rain affects 5 lakh farmers
14 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Prasad Roy had big plans for this Aman season.
Just last week, the farmer from Khalashi Bunia village in Khulna’s Batiaghata upazila prepared a 10-katha seedbed, hoping to raise enough saplings to plant across 17 bighas of paddy land.
14 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Moderate rainfall leaves Khulna under water again
13 July 2026, 21:15 PM
38mm downpour floods roads and homes; residents question city’s waterlogging projects
13 July 2026, 21:15 PM
6 months after a poacher’s snare nearly took her leg, a tigress returns to Sundarbans
12 July 2026, 17:38 PM
A Royal Bengal tigress has been released into the wild after an unprecedented rehabilitation effort in Bangladesh
12 July 2026, 17:38 PM
After six months of treatment, rescued tigress to return to Sundarbans tomorrow
11 July 2026, 12:55 PM
Forest officials say the big cat will remain under watch of 20 trap cameras
11 July 2026, 12:55 PM
Third flood in 10 days exposes Khulna’s drainage crisis
10 July 2026, 16:34 PM
Despite Tk 750 crore in spending, many neighbourhoods remain trapped in stagnant water after heavy rain
10 July 2026, 16:34 PM
Second flooding in eight days puts KCC drainage project under scrutiny
9 July 2026, 16:15 PM
Residents and experts blame poor planning, narrowed canals and inadequate maintenance for recurring waterlogging
9 July 2026, 16:15 PM
Khulna’s vegetable growers frown over low prices
Vegetable farmers in Khulna are being unable to secure fair prices for their produce as the ongoing coronavirus crisis has disrupted the supply of these crops to different parts of the country, including Dhaka.
9 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Khulna grapples with spiraling Covid cases
The number of death and positive cases of Covid-19 has been spiraling in Khulna division, turning the situation bad to worse.
7 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Bastuhara canal on deathbed
Once a 4km long waterbody flowing through Khulna city, today the Bastuhara canal is headed towards virtual extinction, thanks to years of indiscriminate garbage dumping and illegal occupation.
25 July 2021, 18:00 PM
Khulna division goes thru’ its worst Covid-19 surge
The number of infections and deaths in Khulna division this month has broken all previous records.
19 July 2021, 18:00 PM
Dilapidated for 10 years
About 5.5 kilometres of Sonadanga-Mujgunni highway, one of the busiest roads in Khulna city, is increasingly becoming almost unusable for vehicular movement, as it has remained unrepaired for the last 10 years.
16 July 2021, 18:00 PM
Khulna residents pay little heed to health guidelines
Large crowds were seen at different places in Khulna city, right after the lockdown was relaxed. Gatherings were especially visible at clothing, cattle and wholesale markets yesterday.
15 July 2021, 18:00 PM
Khulna residents unfazed by lockdown
On the fourth day of the weeklong lockdown, droves of Khulna city residents gathered and crowded at kitchen markets, ignoring health guidelines amid an increasingly worsening situation.
25 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Khulna on edge of health disaster
Three days after testing positive for Covid-19, Abul Kashem Sheikh started having severe breathing difficulties on June 18.
23 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Khulna seeing the worst of pandemic
With the Covid situation worsening further in Khulna division, the health directorate yesterday reported 82 deaths from the virus all over the country -- the highest in the past seven weeks.
20 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Surge in Covid-19 Cases: Patients struggle as KMCH at capacity
Poritosh came to Khulna Medical College Hospital’s dedicated Covid-19 unit all the way from a Moheshkura of Bagerhat’s Morelgong upazila on
12 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Khulna’s lone dedicated hospital full to the brim
With the number of Covid-19 patients on the rise, the dedicated hospital for treating coronavirus in Khulna is struggling to cope with the pressure.
9 June 2021, 18:00 PM
A life marked by displacement
In many ways, Jamuna Mondal’s life has been shaped by river erosion and climate change.
5 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Enhance support for shrimp farmers, jute mill workers
Various labour organisations and industry experts have urged the government to allocate special funds in the upcoming national budget to help distressed jute mill workers and shrimp farmers survive the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
30 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Big blow to fish farmers
Fish, shrimp enclosures and other structures in coastal areas surrounding the Sundarbans were damaged by tidal surges and storms due to the impact of cyclone Yaas, causing a loss of over Tk 5 crore.
28 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Water crisis grips Khulna city
For the last two months, every morning Helena Khatun, a resident of Moilapota area in Khulna city, wakes up hoping that she will be able to manage enough water for the day.
24 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Khulna sees poor rainfall in two decades
The Khulna region has not seen any rainfall in the last seven months.
24 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Khulna, Barishal traders pleased by customer turnout
Like other parts of the country, shops in the Khulna and Barishal divisions have become inundated with customers ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr, the biggest religious festival in Bangladesh.
11 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Watermelon turning fallow land lively in Khulna
Only about ten to twelve years ago, thousands of acres of land in Khulna would remain uncultivated after the harvesting of Aman rice, but growing of watermelon there did not cross the farmers’ minds.
5 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Salinity in Coastal Areas: Alternative crops ignite farmers’ hope
People living by the Kirtonkhola river in Barishal noticed in March this year that the river’s water had become unusually salty.
22 April 2021, 18:00 PM
Watermelon -- a game changer for Khulna’s coastal farmers
The people of Khulna had not even considered watermelon farming just 10 or 12 years ago, when thousands of acres of land would remain uncultivated after the aman paddy season.
20 April 2021, 18:00 PM