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Dipankar Roy

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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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Drug Dealing in Khulna: Fingers pointed at some cops, politicians

Khulna is like a haven for drug dealers as several policemen, with ranks from constable to officers-in-charge, are directly or indirectly involved in the smuggling and the supply chain.
23 May 2018, 18:00 PM
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A turnout that raises eyebrows

Of all the 286 polling centres in Khulna City Corporation, the one at Nayabati Haji Shariatullah Bidyapith in ward-10, stands out for recording a turnout of 99.94 percent voters.
16 May 2018, 18:00 PM
Polling agents of the BNP at Khulna City Corporation KCC Election

KCC polls: No BNP agents at 4 centres

Polling agents of the BNP-backed mayoral candidate are not seen in at least four polling centres during Khulna City Corporation elections since the voting began.
15 May 2018, 07:44 AM
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A passion for home-grown science

To see deep green paddy as it sways to a gentle breeze is anybody's delight. The paddy fields of Aruni Mondal, 42,
26 November 2017, 18:00 PM
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A university student builds his own drone

Suvik Roy, from Chunkuri village in Khulna's Dacope upazila, has long been inquisitive. From a young age and inspired by Hollywood movies, he has
21 November 2017, 18:00 PM

BCL man's terror pushes girl to breaking point

A teenage girl, a student of Govt LBK Degree College in Dacope upazila, has committed suicide in her dormitory room after Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) president of Bajua SN College allegedly took her to an undisclosed location by force the day before.
10 November 2017, 18:00 PM
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The music maker of Khulna

In the brown shell of a coconut, in the dried casing of a rounded pumpkin or an asymmetric gourd, in buffalo horn and of course in
4 October 2017, 18:00 PM
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Saiful came to Dhaka a week ago ‘looking for job’

Saying he would look for a job, Saiful Islam of Noyakathi village in Khulna's Dumuria upazila went to Dhaka just a week ago. But his
15 August 2017, 18:00 PM
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Bhabadaha: A tale of sorrow

Once famed for the ingenuity of its 21 sluice gates designed to efficiently channel the water of several rivers through plains and
4 August 2017, 18:00 PM
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Big cats in big trouble

Experts have expressed concern over the depleting Bengal tiger population in the Sundarbans as the number of tiger attacks in and around the mangrove forest has gone down significantly in recent years.
28 July 2017, 18:00 PM

Rain brings miseries, again

Yesterday's heavy rain inundated most parts of Khulna city again, causing sufferings to residents.
20 July 2017, 18:00 PM
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Waterlogging a never-ending crisis in Khulna city

Due to unabated encroachment of canals and a lack of proper drainage and sewerage system in Khulna city, waterlogging has become a perennial problem for the dwellers, especially in the rainy season.
15 July 2017, 18:00 PM
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Change Maker: Library on wheels

Travel the Khulna to Bagerhat Road and in the vicinity of Noihati in Khulna's Rupsha upazila you might see the curious sight of a man
23 June 2017, 18:00 PM

Vessel with cement clinkers capsizes

A lighter vessel, MV Sheba, with 800 metric tonnes of cement clinkers capsized in the Pasur river at Harbaria in the Sundarbans early yesterday.
5 June 2017, 18:00 PM
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Back to back tragedy for a family

Sohel Sarder was a class-IV student in 1998 when his father was gunned down. His eldest brother, Abu Syed Badal, was killed in 2010
26 May 2017, 18:00 PM
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Day labourer turns successful retailer

Malmolia village in Khulna's Dumuria upazila is remote. Thirty-five kilometres from the city, it doesn't have sealed roads or grid
25 May 2017, 18:00 PM
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Igniting the flame

At first, Srabonti Saha Adhara was a bit perplexed when she heard she had to attend a self-defence class at her school.
16 May 2017, 18:00 PM

Khulna tax zone registers 1 lakh TIN-holders

The tax zone in Khulna has hit a significant milestone after registering 100,000 taxpayer's identification numbers in 2016-17, the
7 May 2017, 18:00 PM
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Crab catching unabated near Sundarbans

Random catching of mother crabs in different rivers and canals in the coastal areas adjacent to the Sundarbans is going on unabated,
30 March 2017, 18:00 PM
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Use of banned net killing fish resources

To stroll along the Pankhali Ferry Ghat riverbank via Chalna Bazar in Khulna's Dacope upazila is to watch fishers busy, dawn to dusk, as they haul fine-mesh triangular nets in the hope of collecting juvenile shrimp.
28 March 2017, 18:00 PM

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