Khulna sees 33 killings in nine months
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Rupsha records highest number of murder cases in district
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Khulna’s shrimp factories fall silent as supply shrinks
28 September 2026
The sprawling shrimp-processing factories along the Rupsha River once symbolised Khulna’s emergence as a major export-oriented industrial hub.
28 September 2026
KMCH struggles with nearly 4 times its capacity
27 September 2026
When several-month pregnant Raisa Begum fell ill and was admitted to Khulna Medical College Hospital (KMCH), she had to spend days in a cramped corner beside the staircase outside the maternal care and labour ward because no bed was available.
27 September 2026
Khulna Medical College Hospital struggles with nearly four times its capacity
26 September 2026
Dengue patients treated in corridors as 500-bed hospital nears 2,000 patients
26 September 2026
Hospitals in Khulna overwhelmed
23 September 2026
The corridors of Khulna Medical College Hospital are no longer merely passageways for patients and attendants. They have become makeshift treatment spaces as dengue patients arrive in growing numbers.
23 September 2026
Dengue surge in Khulna leaves patients struggling for hospital beds
22 September 2026
Some patients are being treated at home or in hospital corridors as admissions rise
22 September 2026
'Even if he ate a handful of rice, why would they beat him?'
21 September 2026
Around midnight on Saturday, Md Kutub Uddin received a frantic phone call from his son, Md Azmal Hossain, a first-year student at North Western University in Khulna.
21 September 2026
Sundarbans: The forest that protects, feeds and sustains
19 September 2026
The first thing one notices at dawn in the Sundarbans is not the green forest cover, the muddy riverbank or the waves breaking on the shore.
19 September 2026
Tidal surges hamper life in 6 villages
Even two months after the cyclone Amphan, some six villages in Khulna’s Koyra upazila are still under three to four feet of water, preventing villagers from returning to their homes and livelihoods.
22 July 2020
No case filed over Khulna murders yet
Over 48 hours have passed since three people were shot dead and another was beaten to death over the management of a local madrasa committee in Atra-Gilatola Eastern Gate area of Khulna city on Thursday, but no case has been filed yet.
18 July 2020
Nowhere to go
Nurunnahar Begum is 62.
18 July 2020
Three shot dead in clash over supremacy
Three villagers were killed and seven others injured after a local Awami League leader and his two brothers allegedly opened fire on them at Moshiali village of Atra-Gilatla Eastern Gate area in Khulna city on Thursday night.
17 July 2020
Covid Test In Khulna: Of long wait and backlog
For more than two weeks, Champa Raptan and her husband Uttom Mondol from Khulna’s Dacope upazila have been waiting anxiously for their coronavirus test results.
9 July 2020
‘Where will we go?’
Thousands of workers of nine state-owned jute mills in the Khulna-Jashore industrial belt, passing days in mounting tension before the announcement of closure, are now sunk in gloom with the mills shut down.
8 July 2020
Jute Mills Closure: Two labour leaders detained
Law enforcers detained two jute mills labour leaders from their Khulna homes early yesterday for interrogation.
6 July 2020
Left ignored for 11 years
Bastuhara City Bypass Link Road in Khulna has remained uncared for for nearly a dozen of years as no authorities are willing to take its responsibility, resulting in extreme public sufferings.
3 July 2020
Curtain falls on 9 Khulna jute mills
Platinum Jute Mill’s worker Eratun Khatun broke down in tears when she saw the notice declaring the permanent closure of the organisation she had been with for almost three decades.
3 July 2020
State-Owned Mills’ Shutdown: Jute workers in Khulna prepare for movement
Workers of the nine state-owned jute mills in the Khulna region are preparing for an organised movement to protest the decision to hand all state-owned jute mills over to public private partnership.
28 June 2020
Khulna Division Covid-19: Two dedicated ICU facilities on deathbed
The 10 districts of Khulna division have only two ICUs for coronavirus patients -- that too are plagued with faulty equipment and inadequate medical supplies.
27 June 2020
4 held over killing of Khulna doctor
Police have arrested four persons, including the main accused, in connection with the death of Dr Abdur Rakib Khan in Khulna.
18 June 2020
‘Death by Wrong Treatment’: Doctor beaten to death by patient’s relatives in Khulna
A doctor, who was assaulted by a patient’s family members on Monday night over the allegation of wrong treatment which led to her death, passed away while undergoing treatment at a hospital in Khulna on Tuesday.
17 June 2020
Amphan-Hit Sundarbans: Damage 3 times worse than Bulbul’s
The lush green banks of the Shibsa river winding through the Sundarbans, once outlined by the beautiful keora and golpata trees, have turned all grey and pale yellow.
9 June 2020
Amphan Aftermath: Water crisis with water all around
There’s water all around Amena Begum. Yet, her son has to bring drinking water in a raft from a shallow tube well 2.5km away.
6 June 2020
Docs denied hotel stay
Six doctors treating Covid-19 patients were not allowed on Monday night into a Khulna hotel where they were supposed to stay as per an arrangement made by the district administration.
2 June 2020
Take care of embankments
With 70 villages under water now, repair of damaged embankments is the first priority for the people of Khulna’s Koyra upazila.
30 May 2020
Cyclone took everything they had
Mahmuda Akhter and her two children were heading towards Moharajpur area in Koyra upazila yesterday to look for a dry place to live.
28 May 2020
Amphan aftermath: A trail of devastation in Khulna’s Koyra upazila
Cyclone Amphan has devastated Koyra upazila in Khulna district, leaving the marks of its fury at every corner of the upazila.
24 May 2020
Healthcare at a halt
Due to lack of personal protective equipment (PPE), doctors at Khulna Medical College Hospital seem to be reluctant to treat people with coronavirus symptoms, causing sufferings or even death to the patients.
26 March 2020