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Dipankar Roy

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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City entrance in sorry state as authorities evade responsibility

Bricks and stones coming off, innumerable potholes to evade, engulfed in dust during dry weather and in mud during monsoon -- this is the sorry state of Sonadanga Bypass Road in Khulna city.
28 February 2020, 18:00 PM
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It was an accident waiting to happen

With trains arriving and departing and people hopping on and off carriages, Khulna Railway Station is a busy junction.
23 February 2020, 18:00 PM
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Coronavirus outbreak: Khulna’s crab, eel trade losing Tk 4cr every day

Thousands of farmers and traders in Khulna region are incurring losses worth Tk four crore every day as crab and eel exports to China have been suspended due to the coronavirus outbreak.
8 February 2020, 15:06 PM
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Dilapidated city streets spell misery for Khulna commuters

Dilapidated roads in Khulna are causing immense sufferings to city dwellers, who say 60 percent of roads are in poor condition due to lack of reconstruction and repair after development projects.
1 February 2020, 18:00 PM
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‘Govt did not take it seriously’

Workers of eight state-owned jute mills in Khulna and Jashore industrial belt went on an indefinite hunger strike again from yesterday, to press home an 11-point demand including implementation of wage commission.
29 December 2019, 18:00 PM
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Cyclone Bulbul: 4,500 trees in Sundarbans damaged

Cyclone Bulbul damaged 4,589 trees in the Sundarbans, mostly in the western part of the mangrove forest under Khulna and Satkhria districts, according to the Bangladesh Forest Department.
16 November 2019, 18:00 PM
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Khulna farmers happy getting agri-service in local market

With an advice slip on his hand, paddy farmer Swapon Kumar Mondal looks happy returning home from the Kalinagar haat. The slip, obtained from officers of Dacope Upazila Agriculture Office (DAO), has recommendation about solving a problem that occurred in Swapon’s paddy field in Kalinagar village.
15 November 2019, 07:32 AM
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Growing popularity of taro

The mammoth 10 feet tall pani kochu (taro) plants are a sight to behold.
2 November 2019, 18:00 PM

Khulna hotel accommodates 765 candidates for free

A hotel in Khulna city has provided free accommodation to 765 candidates of Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (Kuet) admission test.
18 October 2019, 18:00 PM

Criticising Indian Deal: Facebook post causes AL leader’s suspension

The Khulna district Awami League (AL) has suspended its executive committee member Sheikh Baharul Alam for criticising the recent India-Bangladesh deals on Facebook.
10 October 2019, 18:00 PM
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Hotel construction puts trade school buildings at risk

The academic-administrative building and an adjacent tin-roofed one of UCEP Mohsin Khulna Technical School are seemingly at risk due to construction of a high-rise beside the institution, according to Kuet experts.
1 October 2019, 18:00 PM
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Scanty rain worries Khulna farmers

Aman cultivation in the ongoing sowing season is badly hampered amid insufficient rain in the district as farmers are reluctant to use saline water for irrigation.
22 August 2019, 18:00 PM
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Whose road is it anyway?

Authorities’ indifference, as well as lack of foresight and responsibility have left the Khulna city bypass connectivity road in a sorry state, at the expense of local residents and inter-district buses passing through it.
21 August 2019, 18:00 PM
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Khulna Bastuhara colony waterlogged for five days

Rainwater has not receded from Khulna city’s Bastuhara colony even after five days, causing immense suffering to its 10,000 residents.
21 August 2019, 18:00 PM

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