Dipankar Roy

Golakmoni Shishu Park, one of Khulna city’s entertainment centres, hardly lives up to its name. Although it’s called a “Shishu Park”, there are no facilities for children to play. However, this park, established on 64 decimals of land in 1984 at the heart of Khulna city, could’ve served as a great entertainment hub for children as well as residents of the city.

Victims of the Narail mayhem alleged that the actual picture of the damage to Hindu households, shops and properties was not reflected in police’s case statement as they deem it to be much higher.

Many attackers of the Narail mayhem have already been identified through video footage. They are still roaming around the village but police did not arrest them, alleged the victims.

Though a mob of several hundred people thronged the Sahapara village in Narail’s Lohagara upazila around 4:00pm on July 15, police reinforcement was nowhere to be seen until 11:00pm.

Due to scarcity of trained professionals, unavailability of equipment and overwhelming treatment costs, cancer care is still inaccessible to hundreds of patients in Khulna and surrounding southern districts.

Shibnath Saha’s life utterly changed on Friday evening.

Deepali Rani Saha can never forget this Friday night when she watched her house burn down.

The wholesale and retail prices of vegetables and fish have shot up in Khulna right after Eid celebrations, due to inadequate supply -- creating a burden for those belonging to the lower-income group.

Khulna Infectious Disease Hospital has been facing multiple problems for over the last fifty years. This, in turn, has made it almost impossible to offer quality treatment to patients.

Moderate rain inundated around two-thirds of Khulna city yesterday, causing immense sufferings to residents.

Khulna city dwellers have been facing intense dust pollution for the last couple of years, as long stretches of roads and drains are being reconstructed under different development projects.

Only two years after the Tk 46.25 crore re-excavation project was taken for Bhadra river in Khulna’s Dumuria upazila, it has once again been filled with silt. According to Water Development Board (WDB) officials, the amount of silt deposited on the riverbed is higher in the southwestern region, Dumuria being one.

Nur Alom (47) was a substitute worker at a Khulna jute mill that shut down on July 1, 2020.

A major road of the city, unfit due to lack of maintenance for 12 years. Multiple complaints were made to the authorities but to no avail.

The massacre began at 11:00am and ended at 5:00pm. More than 10,000 people were killed by a platoon of Pakistani army, according to local historians.

A library of almost six decades, with a collection of 1,27,000 books. An average of 150 readers every day, intently studying with pin-drop silence in the spacious reading room.

The road on the west of Dumuria’s Baliakhali bridge had to be crossed through the mighty Hamkura on ferries. The road is still there. The river, however, is not.

Around 3:00pm, South Central Road of Khulna city  remains almost empty due to the scorching heat. However, an opposite scenario can be noticed on the footpath in front of Government Pioneer Women’s College. With a canopy overhead, vendors have set up iftar stalls. Of these stalls, “Nana Special Halim” continues to gather a large crowd.

Seeds of local varieties -- preserved by families for generations -- have been the most adaptive way of cultivation for the distinct climatic conditions of the country’s coastal areas.

A microphone used in Bangabandhu’s March 7 speech, indigenous weapons used in the resistance war, clothes and telephone sets used by freedom fighters, transmitters used in refugee camps, letter from then Prime Minister Tajuddin Ahmed to his wife on the white part of an empty cigarette box, which says, “Johra, if you can, join the seven and a half crore Bangalees.”