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
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
‘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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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