Dipankar Roy

“Other sufferings are bearable, but not suffering for lack of water.”

“Other sufferings are bearable, but not suffering for lack of water.”

As many as 150 families sheltered at Ashrayan-2 project in Digholia upazila are living under threat of erosion.

Those days are long gone when the rich and the powerful used to unleash their army of mercenaries, then known as ‘lathials’, to occupy a piece of land by force.

Bricks and stones coming off, innumerable potholes to evade, engulfed in dust during dry weather and in mud during monsoon -- this is the sorry state of Sonadanga Bypass Road in Khulna city.

With trains arriving and departing and people hopping on and off carriages, Khulna Railway Station is a busy junction.

Thousands of farmers and traders in Khulna region are incurring losses worth Tk four crore every day as crab and eel exports to China have been suspended due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Dilapidated roads in Khulna are causing immense sufferings to city dwellers, who say 60 percent of roads are in poor condition due to lack of reconstruction and repair after development projects.

Workers of eight state-owned jute mills in Khulna and Jashore industrial belt went on an indefinite hunger strike again from yesterday, to press home an 11-point demand including implementation of wage commission.

Cyclone Bulbul damaged 4,589 trees in the Sundarbans, mostly in the western part of the mangrove forest under Khulna and Satkhria districts, according to the Bangladesh Forest Department.

With an advice slip on his hand, paddy farmer Swapon Kumar Mondal looks happy returning home from the Kalinagar haat. The slip, obtained from officers of Dacope Upazila Agriculture Office (DAO), has recommendation about solving a problem that occurred in Swapon’s paddy field in Kalinagar village.

The mammoth 10 feet tall pani kochu (taro) plants are a sight to behold.

A hotel in Khulna city has provided free accommodation to 765 candidates of Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (Kuet) admission test.

The Khulna district Awami League (AL) has suspended its executive committee member Sheikh Baharul Alam for criticising the recent India-Bangladesh deals on Facebook.

The academic-administrative building and an adjacent tin-roofed one of UCEP Mohsin Khulna Technical School are seemingly at risk due to construction of a high-rise beside the institution, according to Kuet experts.

Aman cultivation in the ongoing sowing season is badly hampered amid insufficient rain in the district as farmers are reluctant to use saline water for irrigation.

Authorities’ indifference, as well as lack of foresight and responsibility have left the Khulna city bypass connectivity road in a sorry state, at the expense of local residents and inter-district buses passing through it.

Rainwater has not receded from Khulna city’s Bastuhara colony even after five days, causing immense suffering to its 10,000 residents.

Heavy rain turned many parts of Khulna city into swamps yesterday, paralysing normal life and creating a traffic chaos. Thoroughfares, lanes and bylanes were partially or fully submerged in those areas, causing immense sufferings to city dwellers.

Family members of a woman, allegedly gang-raped by an OC and several other policemen in Khulna on Friday, say they are feeling insecure as some plainclothesmen are constantly keeping them under watch.