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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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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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Heavy rain spells misery for Khulna residents

Heavy rain turned many parts of Khulna city into swamps yesterday, paralysing normal life and creating a traffic chaos. Thoroughfares, lanes and bylanes were partially or fully submerged in those areas, causing immense sufferings to city dwellers.
17 August 2019, 18:00 PM
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Rape by ‘OC, Others’: Victim’s family being followed, threatened

Family members of a woman, allegedly gang-raped by an OC and several other policemen in Khulna on Friday, say they are feeling insecure as some plainclothesmen are constantly keeping them under watch.
6 August 2019, 18:00 PM
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The Malhar Festival enthralls Khulna

The Assistant High Commission of India in Khulna, in association with Udichi Shilpi Goshthi, recently organised The Malhar Festival at CSS Ava Centre in Khulna for the first time.
30 July 2019, 18:00 PM

5 to die for double murder, gang rape

A Khulna court yesterday awarded death penalty to five men, for gang-raping and murdering a woman, and killing her father at her house in 2015.
16 July 2019, 18:00 PM

DNC accused of framing journo

Family members and colleagues have accused the Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) in Khulna of arresting a local journalist in a “false” drug case.
9 July 2019, 18:00 PM

Woman dies after surgery at unlicensed Khulna clinic

A woman died after undergoing gallbladder surgery in an unlicensed Khulna clinic on Monday night, prompting family members and locals to besiege the hospital.
25 June 2019, 18:00 PM

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