Dipankar Roy

The Bhadra, once a free-flowing river in Khulna’s Dumuria upazila, has been turned into a narrow canal over the years, thanks to encroachment by brick kilns run by local influential people, including elected representatives.

With only a week left before the countrywide Covid-19 vaccination campaign kicks off on February 7, training of field-level healthcare workers in Khulna division is yet to start.

Myth says that the philosopher’s stone was a substance that could turn ordinary metal into gold.

In a blatant disregard for public health and environment, Khulna City Corporation has been dumping garbage on a part of Boyra bypass road for a long time.

Thirty-seven villages in Pratapnagar and Sriula unions of Satkhira’s Assasuni upazila went under water when Cyclone Amphan broke major river embankments at several points in May this year.

Thirteen people out of the 14 who were allegedly detained by police -- during and following a clash between law enforcers and agitators protesting jute mill closure in Khulna’s Atra industrial area on Monday -- were shown arrested in a case yesterday.

At least 25 people, including three police personnel, were injured in a clash between police and jute mill workers on Khulna-Jashore highway yesterday morning.

Energypac Power Generation is set to raise Tk 150 crore through initial public offering (IPO), the proceeds of which will be used to make liquid petroleum gas (LPG) more available as a primary fuel source for vehicles in Bangladesh and repay the company’s bank loans.

Lamia Akhter, the sixth grader of Khulna city who got hit by a stray bullet on Friday, underwent successful surgery on her leg yesterday at Khulna Medical College Hospital (KMCH).

Nearly a day and a half after she was hit by a stray bullet in front of her own house, 15-year-old Lamia was lying in a bed at Khulna Medical College Hospital (KMCH) in unbearable anguish last night, the piece of metal still lodged deep inside her body.

Due to unplanned waste disposal and improper waste management, most drains of Khulna City Corporation (KCC) have turned into garbage heaps.

A moderate rain inundated around two-third of Khulna city yesterday, causing immense suffering to the dwellers.

Even two months after the cyclone Amphan, some six villages in Khulna’s Koyra upazila are still under three to four feet of water, preventing villagers from returning to their homes and livelihoods.

Nurunnahar Begum is 62.

Over 48 hours have passed since three people were shot dead and another was beaten to death over the management of a local madrasa committee in Atra-Gilatola Eastern Gate area of Khulna city on Thursday, but no case has been filed yet.

Three villagers were killed and seven others injured after a local Awami League leader and his two brothers allegedly opened fire on them at Moshiali village of Atra-Gilatla Eastern Gate area in Khulna city on Thursday night.

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.

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.

Law enforcers detained two jute mills labour leaders from their Khulna homes early yesterday for interrogation.

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.