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.
1w ago
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.
2w ago
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.
2w ago
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.
3w ago
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.
3w ago
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.
3w ago
Preserving a painful past
Madhab Chandra Bairagi and Sourav Goldar were among the more than 500 people who were brutally killed by the Pakistani Army men at Badamtala area in Batiaghata upazila of Khulna on May 19, 1971.
1m ago
Gallamari Mass Grave: Still bearing marks of butchery
Anyone in Khulna who either witnessed the Liberation War of 1971 or is aware of the regions’s war-history will shudder at the name of Gallamari mass grave.
1m ago
February 9, 2024
A referee’s refusal to lose hope
In 1998, SM Kamrul Islam Babu, a native of Dhulgram village in Abhaynagar upazila, Jashore, badly injured both of his hands while working with a shallow machine at a fish enclosure.
February 9, 2024
Khulna footpaths finally freed
From Hogolbunia of Batiaghata, Gautam Mondal often travels to Khulna city for his business. He was used to the congested, narrow footpaths of the city, lined with vendors, hawkers and beggars. With no space left for pedestrians, they were often forced to get down and walk along the roadside.
February 7, 2024
Final nail in Taltala canal’s coffin
The two-kilometre-long Taltala canal once used to be a vital waterbody flowing through Khulna city.
February 4, 2024
Dead trees a safety hazard on Satkhira roads
Curled up leafless twigs rattling with every breeze and decaying tree trunks crowd the roads of Satkhira.
February 3, 2024
Once a promising Test venue, now a complete wreck
The cricket fans of Khulna cannot remember the last time an international cricket match was held at the Sheikh Abu Naser Stadium (SANS) nor are they too optimistic about seeing one at the Rupsha-Bhairab shore any time soon.
February 1, 2024
As our rivers lay dying
Rivers don’t live anymore, they merely exist. They exist as relics of their halcyon days when rivers were truly wild, mysterious, free -- or as a character in their own story, as told through poetry and music.
January 29, 2024
Time running out for Gulatola
Permanent concrete structures being constructed by encroaching parts of Gulatola canal and dumping of solid wastes is putting the final nails in the coffin of the waterbody.
January 26, 2024
Choking a river to death
The 22-kilometre-long Mayur river, which used to flow through the western side of Khulna city while being a source of fresh water for locals, is now on its deathbed.
January 7, 2024
BNP in Khulna: 228 in jail, others on the run
As the nation heads to the polls today, the BNP continues its two-day hartal as part of a polls-boycott movement. The party has also called for a non-cooperation movement to remove the current regime and demanded elections under a neutral administration.
January 6, 2024
Poster pollution plagues Khulna
Candidates for the 12th parliamentary elections have put up a large number of laminated and polythene-coated posters in many areas across the six constituencies of Khulna, posing an environmental threat.
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