Dipankar Roy

The nine state-owned jute mills in Khulna and Jashore are lagging way behind their production targets amid a shortage of raw materials.

It was shortly after 3:30pm yesterday when Saddam Sana, a 44-year-old farmer, arrived at a temporary cyclone centre in Dacope’s Tildanga health complex. He was completely drenched and quivering. Saddam along with his wife and two children...

Building of fish enclosures as a means to encroach on canals, waterbodies and even rivers is plaguing the country in recent times. The plague has almost reached epidemic proportions in Khulna’s Botiaghata upazila.

With a target to collect information about 1.8 lakh voters, the Election Commission started a voter list updating programme in Khulna district yesterday.

Though it had been over 10 years since she saw him, it took Selina Akhter less than 10 seconds to recognise her father on Friday.

Jute mill workers have withdrawn their strike, protests and blockade, following a five-hour meeting with government officials held in Dhaka on Monday night around 11:30 pm.

The jute industry is in such deep debt that it would have to sell an arm and a leg, and perhaps both kidneys too, to be able to pay all that it owes their workers.

“I stood motionless in front of a table where a broken helmet and Pakistani currency were displayed at the martyred gallery.

In 2003, Ashor Khalashi bought a piece of land in Khulna city with all the savings he had.

Khulna City Corporation (KCC) Mayor Talukder Abdul Khaleque yesterday vowed to free all 22 canals of the city from encroachment, and urged all stakeholders to help the upcoming eviction drive, after mapping and demarcation of the canals.

An acute shortage of teachers has been hampering academic and administrative activities at Khulna Medical College (KMC) for a long time, making life difficult for teachers and students alike.

Noise pollution has turned acute in Khulna city, as sound levels have gone beyond the permissible level at many points of the city, putting public health at risk.

Once, Khulna city was blessed with the flowing waters of over 50 canals.

Police recovered two dead bodies from a rented room at Sonadanga Bus Terminal area in Khulna city on the night of January 18 (Friday).

Most drains of Khulna City Corporation (KCC) have turned into garbage heaps due to unplanned waste disposal and improper waste management. City dwellers are facing environmental degradation and health risks due to blockages in the drainage system and contamination of water resources near uncontrolled dumping sites.

The numbers from Sunday's parliamentary polls in Khulna indicate that voters turned out in droves to exercise their rights, with the exception of the one constituency where electronic voting took place.

The voters from minority communities will play a major role in the six constituencies of Khulna during tomorrow's polls as they hold a large stake in the area's vote bank.

A tough competition awaits candidates in Khulna-3 constituency (Khalishpur, Daulatpur and Khanjahan Ali) as around 25 percent of the total voters, consisting of jute mill workers, are still indecisive.

Confusion remains among many over casting votes using electronic voting machines in Satkhira-2 and Khulna-2 as they have no practical knowledge of the machines.

Promises of further development work are Awami League contestants' election mantra in Khulna while the BNP candidates are pledging “restoration of democracy”.