Dipankar Roy

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The construction of a modern prison of the Khulna District Jail has remained incomplete for 12 years.

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.

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.

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.

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.

An eerie silence prevails on the once bustling campus of Khulna Polytechnic Institute as its four dormitories have been lying abandoned for 15 years.

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

Paddy farmers in Khulna division are worried as a lack of rainfall on the onset of Aman season threatens to adversely affect cultivation.

At the break of dawn, women of all ages -- daughters, mothers, homemakers -- set out in search for safe drinking water.

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.

A 275-year-old Jor Bangla temple, located in Khulna city’s Maheshwarpasha area, is on the verge of collapse.

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.

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.