Dipankar Roy

“Every day for the last couple of weeks, my son has to cross extensive mud patches to go to school. He is tired and does not want to go to school anymore,” said Rumana Akhtar, a resident of road-11 of Bastuhara area in Khulna city.

When she is supposed to be at football practice, she is tossing and turning in a hospital bed with a bandaged head.

The number of Bengal tigers in the Sundarbans have increased in the last five years, according to forest department officials.

Dilapidated, riddled with potholes, and patches of deteriorated bitumen --  such is the situation of Khulna-Satkhira regional highway.

The Sonadanga-Mujgunni highway has been transformed into a dumping ground, thanks to indiscriminate dumping of waste beside it by the Khulna City Corporation.

The 500-bed Khulna Medical College Hospital is currently treating over 1,500 patients on a daily basis.

Due to unplanned waste disposal and improper management, most drains of Khulna City Corporation have turned into garbage heaps.

Before the city corporation polls, the electricity situation was comparatively better in Khulna compared to other cities of the country. However, only a day after the election, it started to  worsen.

The voting in Khulna city polls went ahead peacefully yesterday with no incidents of violence or obstruction of voters from casting ballots reported.

Awami League leaders and activists have become the main contesters of each other for most of the councillor posts in the Khulna City Corporation election.

With BNP’s significant vote bank up for grabs, politicians and experts are now wondering which candidates will emerge victorious in the upcoming Khulna City Corporation polls slated for June 12.

Talukder Abdul Khaleque, the ruling party’s candidate for the mayoral position in the upcoming Khulna city polls on June 12, has presented electoral pledges similar to those in his 2018 manifesto for the Khulna city polls.

Voters have been showing more interest towards councillor candidates rather than mayoral ones in the upcoming Khulna City polls, scheduled for June 12.

Talukder Abdul Khaleque is running for mayor in Khulna on the ruling Awami League ticket.

Despite advocating in favour of creating a green city, the mayoral and councillor candidates have covered Khulna’s all 31 wards with plastic-laminated posters ahead of the Khulna city polls, which are scheduled for June 12.

All mayoral candidates have initiated their election campaigns after receiving symbols from the returning officer’s office yesterday morning, signalling the start of the campaign for the upcoming Khulna City Corporation election scheduled for June 12. 

Panic has gripped residents of Sutarkhali and Kamarkhola unions in Khulna’s Dacope upazila ever since an embankment of the Water Development Board built in the region started to collapse.

The delay in the construction of a 3.5-kilometre-long Hatbati-Kasaribari-Soilmari road located at the Sadar union in Khulna’s Batiaghata upazila is causing immense suffering to thousands of commuters. The road construction work has remained suspended for six months, making it hard for locals to live in roadside houses and continue their businesses due to the sand and thick dust of brick chips in the air.

Although watermelon yields have been good this year, a section of farmers in Barishal and Khulna are facing heavy losses due to heavy hailstorms and poor market price amid the final stage of harvesting.

Khulna is facing a severe health hazard as around half of the clinics, hospitals, and diagnostic centres in the city do not have their own waste-disposal mechanism and dump unsorted garbage in street bins, said officials of Directorate General of Health Services and Khulna City Corporation (KCC).