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Dipankar Roy

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Soft-shell crab farming / The new gold of Sundarbans coast

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
17 January 2026, 00:00 AM
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Lone genocide museum closed for 17 months

The country’s only genocide museum in Khulna has remained closed for visitors for around 17 months.
9 December 2025, 18:35 PM
9 December 2025, 18:35 PM
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E-waste mismanagement puts Khulna at risk

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
20 November 2025, 21:33 PM
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Unchecked snail harvest threatens Khulna ecology

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
1 November 2025, 18:00 PM
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Business Plus / Sundarbans faces a new test as eco-tourism surges

More Bangladeshis, foreign visitors are heading into the world's largest mangrove forest
31 October 2025, 18:00 PM
31 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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Khulna on edge amid rise in murders

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
17 October 2025, 19:52 PM
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Dacope Upazila / 40hrs on, no repair to breached Dhaki embankment

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
9 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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Sheikhpura boat market: Sustaining livelihoods in a drying delta

In the southwestern delta of Bangladesh, where roads vanish under monsoon waters, boats are critical for survival. Whether it is fishing, visiting the local bazaar, harvesting crops, or going to school, the rainy season demands one thing above all — a boat. This necessity has made the vessel an indispensable part of the rural economy. For those looking to buy one, the best destination remains the century-old Sheikhpura boat market in Khulna’s Terokhada upazila.
6 October 2025, 18:00 PM
6 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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Unrepaired road, immense sufferings

Delay in renovation of a road connecting Khulna University of Engineering and Technology and several other institutions has resulted in immense sufferings to the city residents.
13 September 2024, 18:00 PM
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41 doctors declared ‘unwanted’, medical service disrupted

Patients at Khulna Medical College Hospital have been suffering immensely, as around 50 doctors of the hospital’s indoor and outdoor departments remained absent yesterday.
4 September 2024, 18:00 PM
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‘We want a sustainable embankment’

After the flood-protection dam was breached and 13 villages in Deluti union under Khulna’s Paikgachha upazila were flooded last Thursday, around 7-8 thousand people had to leave their homes and take shelter on higher grounds, including other parts of the embankment, roadsides, and different educational institutions.
28 August 2024, 18:00 PM
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Most KCC dev projects halted

After the fall of the Awami League-government on August 5 following a mass uprising, Khulna City Corporation’s mayor, most of the ward councillors, and pro-AL contractors went into hiding.
27 August 2024, 18:00 PM
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Khulna schools see thin presence

Although most schools in Khulna city and nine other upazilas are open, attendance across these institutions has only been 30 to 35 percent so far.
26 August 2024, 18:00 PM
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No permanent allotment for residents in 52yrs

In 1972, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman allotted 33 acres of land for squatters and displaced people in Mujgunni area of Khulna city to reside there.
26 August 2024, 18:00 PM
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First cyclone Remal, now floods: Khulna villages submerged again

Cyclones, river erosions, and floods -- people in coastal Bangladesh have been fighting natural disasters on a regular basis, and each year is turning out to be increasingly more challenging than the previous one due to climate change.
25 August 2024, 18:00 PM
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It’s radio silence in Khulna

In the heart of Khulna, the Bangladesh Betar centre stood as a beacon of community, culture, and information. Established in 1970, it quickly became a cherished institution, bridging gaps between rural life and broader societal developments.
15 August 2024, 18:00 PM
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KCC services in a shambles

Most of the councillors’ offices in the 31 wards of Khulna City Corporation have remained locked following a spree of vandalism and looting after Sheikh Hasina’s resignation on August 5.
13 August 2024, 18:00 PM
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Waste piles up across Khulna city

Heaps of waste are piling up in various corners of Khulna city as the city corporation’s conservation workers have stopped working following the power vacuum after Sheikh Hasina’s fall.
9 August 2024, 18:00 PM
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New khulna district jail: Construction works drag on for 12 years

The construction of a modern prison of the Khulna District Jail has remained incomplete for 12 years.
31 July 2024, 18:00 PM
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Waste being dumped near KU’s main entrance

In the vicinity of the main entrance of Khulna University, merely 200 metres from the four-lane Sher-e-Bangla Road, an important thoroughfare in Khulna stretching from Zero Point to Moilapota intersection, awaits an abominable sight -- a waste dumping ground.
30 July 2024, 18:00 PM
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Curfew casts long shadow on low-income people

Shafiq Mandal, 65, who works as a porter and ticket broker at Sonadanga Bus Terminal in Khulna city, was seen sorting some rusted iron rods and bars at an abandoned car garage near the terminal on Friday noon.
27 July 2024, 18:00 PM
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Investment in the south is underwhelming even after Padma Bridge

Two years have passed since the inauguration of Padma Bridge, but the southern region has still not managed to tap the potential brought about by the mega-project due to a lack of physical infrastructure and utilities.
19 July 2024, 18:00 PM
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Unpaved for 50 years

The 14-kilometre-long Bajua-Podderganj road of Bangladesh Water Development Board in Khulna’s Dacope upazila has been connecting around 8,000 people across several villages in the upazila for around half a century.
16 July 2024, 18:00 PM
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Abandoned hostels, unbound sufferings

An eerie silence prevails on the once bustling campus of Khulna Polytechnic Institute as its four dormitories have been lying abandoned for 15 years.
12 July 2024, 18:00 PM
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Khulna city waterlogged after 55mm rain in 3hrs

A torrential downpour lasting around three hours this morning left most roads and low-lying areas of Khulna city submerged, causing significant suffering for residents
12 July 2024, 16:39 PM
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Aman farmers worry over lack of rain

Paddy farmers in Khulna division are worried as a lack of rainfall on the onset of Aman season threatens to adversely affect cultivation.
5 July 2024, 18:00 PM
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Coastal women and their woeful walk for water

At the break of dawn, women of all ages -- daughters, mothers, homemakers -- set out in search for safe drinking water.
28 June 2024, 18:00 PM
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Illegal housing mushrooms

As many as 153 housing projects have sprung up illegally in Khulna and its adjoining areas without approval from the city’s development authority and the Department of Environment.
24 June 2024, 18:00 PM

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