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Disease outbreak wipes out shrimp at 250 Batiaghata farms

2 September 2026
Disease outbreaks have destroyed shrimp across hundreds of farms in Batiaghata of Khulna, with farmers reporting estimated losses of more than Tk 15 crore over the past one to one-and-a-half months.
2 September 2026
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Sundarbans comes alive again after three-month closure

1 September 2026
More than 300 tourists and hundreds of licensed fishermen returned to the mangrove forest as the annual closure ended
1 September 2026
Khulna schoolgirl rescued from locked bathroom

Gun violence grips Khulna’s Labanchara

21 August 2026
Of the eight police stations in Khulna city, Labanchara has emerged as a major hotspot for criminal activity, with a series of killings and armed attacks reported in recent months.
21 August 2026
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Plastic waste clogs Khulna drains

20 August 2026
Roads submerged in murky water, residents wading through knee-deep water, neighbourhoods becoming inaccessible and vehicles breaking down have become common scenes during the monsoon in Khulna city.
20 August 2026
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Dengue surge overwhelms Khulna hospitals

16 August 2026
Dengue cases have surged across Khulna in recent weeks, putting hospitals under severe pressure.
16 August 2026
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Dengue surge overwhelms Khulna hospitals as deaths, admissions climb

15 August 2026
Bed shortages are forcing hospitals to expand wards as patients crowd facilities across the division
15 August 2026
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Frequent power cuts put small businesses under pressure

13 August 2026
Amid the rolling blackouts, some businesses are spending more to produce the same amount of goods, while others are taking much longer to meet delivery deadlines
13 August 2026
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Business Plus / The fall of an industrial city

8 August 2026
Khulna’s industrial belt now lies largely abandoned, with its people leaving too
8 August 2026
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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

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
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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
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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
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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
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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

Rain brings miseries, again

Yesterday's heavy rain inundated most parts of Khulna city again, causing sufferings to residents.
20 July 2017
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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
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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

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
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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
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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
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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

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
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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
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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
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Welcome to the genocide museum

Rare pictures and paintings depicting the genocide of Bangalees by the Pakistan army hang on the wall. There is also a rich collection
23 March 2017
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Precious water for people in need

Even three months ago, Josna Biswas of Chalna municipality in Khulna's Dakop upazila had to walk 1.5km twice a day to fetch two pitchers of water from the municipality pond.
21 March 2017
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Khulna water crisis will be over in a yr

The construction of a Tk 2,558 crore water treatment plant, which will ensure safe drinking water for the 1.6 million
6 March 2017
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Of plants & healing

Naznin Akhter Nipa's garden in Katianangla, in Khulna's Batiaghata upazila, is full of weird and wonderful plants. Some, like pineapple,
15 February 2017

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