275-year-old temple on verge of ruin
A 275-year-old Jor Bangla temple, located in Khulna city’s Maheshwarpasha area, is on the verge of collapse.
23 June 2024, 18:00 PM
The forgotten female footballers of Khulna
Wearing shorts and playing football -- these reasons were enough for some locals to attack under-17 female footballers of Super Queen Football Academy at Tentultala village in Khulna in July last year.
14 June 2024, 18:00 PM
Dev projects, dust pollution go hand in hand in Khulna
Khulna city residents are suffering immensely as dust pollution has taken an alarming turn over the last couple of years due to several ongoing development projects.
14 June 2024, 18:00 PM
Of damaged dams and sleepless nights
Displacement fear looms over thousands living in 5 unions of Khulna’s Koyra
8 June 2024, 18:00 PM
Plastic Pollution invades the Sundarbans
A group of primates wrestled with a plastic bag caught in the tangled roots of a mangrove tree. Their screeches echoed through the dense forest as they tore at the flimsy material, desperate for the scraps of food trapped inside.
4 June 2024, 18:00 PM
Sundarbans: no time to heal between cyclones
In 2007, Cyclone Sidr ripped through the Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest. The forest took the brunt of the storm, saving human lives by slowing down its destructive force.
2 June 2024, 18:00 PM
Sundarbans saves Bangladesh but pays a heavy price
The Sundarbans, Bangladesh’s “silent protector”, the shield and first line of defense against natural disasters, has once again safeguarded the nation from a cyclone -- Remal.
28 May 2024, 18:00 PM
15 years of Cyclone Aila: It lashed once but changed lives forever
On this day in 2009, cyclone Aila lashed the coastal belt of Bangladesh, leaving behind a trail of destruction that affected about 3.9 million people.
24 May 2024, 18:00 PM
Dada Match factory fading away amid lack of initiatives for reopening
The once renowned state-run Dada Match factory in Khulna city may soon fade away from people’s memory as no effective measures have been taken to reopen it in the past 14 years.
24 May 2024, 13:00 PM
Will Nirala Dighi become a victim of development?
The Khulna Development Authority has begun filling up a portion of Nirala Dighi, the largest pond in Khulna city, with sand for a road extension project, causing an uproar among residents.
22 May 2024, 18:00 PM
Chittaranjan Das - the palm tree planter of Jashore
When everyone else runs for cover from the scorching sun, 67-year-old Chittaranjan Das can be seen tending to palm trees on his broken bicycle. Neither scorching heat, torrential rains, nor biting cold can deter him from his mission.
21 May 2024, 18:00 PM
The blood river
Ershad Ali clutched a sliver of hope as he searched for a familiar face among the dead at Chuknagar Bazar.
19 May 2024, 18:00 PM
Shrimp farmers fear losses for scorching heatwave
Shrimp farmers in Khulna, a southwestern division of Bangladesh that grows shrimp mainly for exports, could be facing serious losses this year as the enclosures used for raising their crustaceans are drying up amid an ongoing heatwave.
29 April 2024, 13:35 PM
Ongoing heatwave: Water crisis grips Khulna
The water crisis in Khulna city has deepened amidst the relentless heatwave, due to plummeting groundwater levels and the inability of the Water Supply and Sewerage Authority to meet the residents’ water needs adequately.
27 April 2024, 18:00 PM
Coastal villagers switch to LPG from Sundarbans’ firewood
Gone are the days when cooking meals twice a day used to take a toll on Salma Begum.
16 April 2024, 18:00 PM
Load shedding cripples life in Khulna city
Tushar Kanti Das lives on the ground floor of a three-storey house on Sabuj Sangh Math Road of ward-6 in Khulna city. After a long day of work as a sales representative for a pharmaceutical company, he would have to suffer the woes of load shedding as soon as he returned home for the past week.
6 April 2024, 18:00 PM
The enduring allure of Khulna’s Nana Halim
Every day during Ramadan, food enthusiasts gather in large numbers at a small outlet in front of Pioneer Women’s College on South Central Road in Khulna.
6 April 2024, 18:00 PM
A broken leg, a football academy and a dream
When Sathi Munda stepped up to take Bangladesh’s fifth and final penalty in the shootout against India on March 10, 2024, the fate of the SAFF Under-16 Women’s Championship title was hanging in the balance.
6 April 2024, 01:00 AM
A new hope for farmers in Khulna
The killing of Sazzaduzzaman, 30, a forest officer in Cox’s Bazar, was not the first time that a forest official got killed by those involved in hill razing and tree felling in the forest areas of Cox’s Bazar.
1 April 2024, 18:00 PM
KCC councillor’s men fill up waterbody on BR land
An eight feet deep waterbody on 66-decimal land owned by Bangladesh Railway in Khulna city has allegedly been filled up by followers of a city corporation councillor. Now plans are afoot to build a park and other structures there.
30 March 2024, 18:00 PM