Dipankar Roy

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.

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.

The 10 districts of Khulna division have only two ICUs for coronavirus patients -- that too are plagued with faulty equipment and inadequate medical supplies.

Police have arrested four persons, including the main accused, in connection with the death of Dr Abdur Rakib Khan 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.

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.

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.

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.

With 70 villages under water now, repair of damaged embankments is the first priority for the people of Khulna’s Koyra upazila.

Mahmuda Akhter and her two children were heading towards Moharajpur area in Koyra upazila yesterday to look for a dry place to live.

Cyclone Amphan has devastated Koyra upazila in Khulna district, leaving the marks of its fury at every corner of the upazila.

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.

“Other sufferings are bearable, but not suffering for lack of water.”

“Other sufferings are bearable, but not suffering for lack of water.”

As many as 150 families sheltered at Ashrayan-2 project in Digholia upazila are living under threat of erosion.

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.

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.

With trains arriving and departing and people hopping on and off carriages, Khulna Railway Station is a busy junction.

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.

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.