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Local seeds for local needs

27 February 2026, 00:00 AM
Karuna Mondal, a 55-year-old homemaker from Shukdara village in Batiaghata upazila of Khulna, has spent over 40 years involved in farming. For nearly all of that time, she has dedicated herself to collecting and preserving indigenous seeds, many of which have disappeared from mainstream agriculture.
27 February 2026, 00:00 AM
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Soft-shell crab farming / The new gold of Sundarbans coast

17 January 2026, 00:00 AM
For generations, coastal families living near the Sundarbans have depended on shrimp farming, fishing, timber cutting, and honey collection to survive.
17 January 2026, 00:00 AM
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Lone genocide museum closed for 17 months

9 December 2025, 18:35 PM
The country’s only genocide museum in Khulna has remained closed for visitors for around 17 months.
9 December 2025, 18:35 PM
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E-waste mismanagement puts Khulna at risk

20 November 2025, 21:33 PM
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
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Unchecked snail harvest threatens Khulna ecology

1 November 2025, 18:00 PM
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
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Business Plus / Sundarbans faces a new test as eco-tourism surges

31 October 2025, 18:00 PM
More Bangladeshis, foreign visitors are heading into the world's largest mangrove forest
31 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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Khulna on edge amid rise in murders

17 October 2025, 19:52 PM
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
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Dacope Upazila / 40hrs on, no repair to breached Dhaki embankment

9 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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
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Covid Test In Khulna: Of long wait and backlog

For more than two weeks, Champa Raptan and her husband Uttom Mondol from Khulna’s Dacope upazila have been waiting anxiously for their coronavirus test results.
9 July 2020, 18:00 PM
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‘Where will we go?’

Thousands of workers of nine state-owned jute mills in the Khulna-Jashore industrial belt, passing days in mounting tension before the announcement of closure, are now sunk in gloom with the mills shut down.
8 July 2020, 18:00 PM
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Jute Mills Closure: Two labour leaders detained

Law enforcers detained two jute mills labour leaders from their Khulna homes early yesterday for interrogation.
6 July 2020, 18:00 PM
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Left ignored for 11 years

Bastuhara City Bypass Link Road in Khulna has remained uncared for for nearly a dozen of years as no authorities are willing to take its responsibility, resulting in extreme public sufferings.
3 July 2020, 18:00 PM
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Curtain falls on 9 Khulna jute mills

Platinum Jute Mill’s worker Eratun Khatun broke down in tears when she saw the notice declaring the permanent closure of the organisation she had been with for almost three decades.
3 July 2020, 18:00 PM
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State-Owned Mills’ Shutdown: Jute workers in Khulna prepare for movement

Workers of the nine state-owned jute mills in the Khulna region are preparing for an organised movement to protest the decision to hand all state-owned jute mills over to public private partnership.
28 June 2020, 18:00 PM
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Khulna Division Covid-19: Two dedicated ICU facilities on deathbed

The 10 districts of Khulna division have only two ICUs for coronavirus patients -- that too are plagued with faulty equipment and inadequate medical supplies.
27 June 2020, 18:00 PM

4 held over killing of Khulna doctor

Police have arrested four persons, including the main accused, in connection with the death of Dr Abdur Rakib Khan in Khulna.
18 June 2020, 18:00 PM

‘Death by Wrong Treatment’: Doctor beaten to death by patient’s relatives in Khulna

A doctor, who was assaulted by a patient’s family members on Monday night over the allegation of wrong treatment which led to her death, passed away while undergoing treatment at a hospital in Khulna on Tuesday.
17 June 2020, 18:00 PM
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Amphan-Hit Sundarbans: Damage 3 times worse than Bulbul’s

The lush green banks of the Shibsa river winding through the Sundarbans, once outlined by the beautiful keora and golpata trees, have turned all grey and pale yellow.
9 June 2020, 18:00 PM
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Amphan Aftermath: Water crisis with water all around

There’s water all around Amena Begum. Yet, her son has to bring drinking water in a raft from a shallow tube well 2.5km away.
6 June 2020, 18:00 PM
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Docs denied hotel stay

Six doctors treating Covid-19 patients were not allowed on Monday night into a Khulna hotel where they were supposed to stay as per an arrangement made by the district administration.
2 June 2020, 18:00 PM
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Take care of embankments

With 70 villages under water now, repair of damaged embankments is the first priority for the people of Khulna’s Koyra upazila.
30 May 2020, 18:00 PM
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Cyclone took everything they had

Mahmuda Akhter and her two children were heading towards Moharajpur area in Koyra upazila yesterday to look for a dry place to live.
28 May 2020, 18:00 PM
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Amphan aftermath: A trail of devastation in Khulna’s Koyra upazila

Cyclone Amphan has devastated Koyra upazila in Khulna district, leaving the marks of its fury at every corner of the upazila.
24 May 2020, 11:06 AM

Healthcare at a halt

Due to lack of personal protective equipment (PPE), doctors at Khulna Medical College Hospital seem to be reluctant to treat people with coronavirus symptoms, causing sufferings or even death to the patients.
26 March 2020, 18:00 PM

In search of drinking water

“Other sufferings are bearable, but not suffering for lack of water.”
21 March 2020, 18:00 PM

People have to walk 2km for water

“Other sufferings are bearable, but not suffering for lack of water.”
21 March 2020, 18:00 PM
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The landless afraid of being homeless again

As many as 150 families sheltered at Ashrayan-2 project in Digholia upazila are living under threat of erosion.
12 March 2020, 18:00 PM
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Everyone’s out to destroy it

Those days are long gone when the rich and the powerful used to unleash their army of mercenaries, then known as ‘lathials’, to occupy a piece of land by force.
3 March 2020, 18:00 PM

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