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
The Malhar Festival enthralls Khulna
The Assistant High Commission of India in Khulna, in association with Udichi Shilpi Goshthi, recently organised The Malhar Festival at CSS Ava Centre in Khulna for the first time.
30 July 2019
5 to die for double murder, gang rape
A Khulna court yesterday awarded death penalty to five men, for gang-raping and murdering a woman, and killing her father at her house in 2015.
16 July 2019
DNC accused of framing journo
Family members and colleagues have accused the Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) in Khulna of arresting a local journalist in a “false” drug case.
9 July 2019
Woman dies after surgery at unlicensed Khulna clinic
A woman died after undergoing gallbladder surgery in an unlicensed Khulna clinic on Monday night, prompting family members and locals to besiege the hospital.
25 June 2019
A cut above the rest
Pick any bazar in any upazila in the country, and you’ll find a barbershop. For many, it’s a quintessential place to hang out and chitchat about anything and everything while getting a haircut.
12 June 2019
Toxic medical waste poses health risks in Khulna
Almost half of the hospitals and clinics in Khulna do not follow proper medical waste management system, putting city dwellers at risk of health hazards.
11 June 2019
Khulna footpaths abuzz with Eid shoppers
Customers are thronging shops on footpaths in Khulna city ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr expected to be celebrated tomorrow.
3 June 2019
Eid Rush: Special Dhaka-Khulna train today
Bangladesh Railway will run a special train service for Eid travellers on the Dhaka-Khulna route today, albeit for just one day.
2 June 2019
Jute mills plagued by a dearth of raw materials
The nine state-owned jute mills in Khulna and Jashore are lagging way behind their production targets amid a shortage of raw materials.
20 May 2019
Anxious wait at cyclone shelters
It was shortly after 3:30pm yesterday when Saddam Sana, a 44-year-old farmer, arrived at a temporary cyclone centre in Dacope’s Tildanga health complex. He was completely drenched and quivering. Saddam along with his wife and two children...
3 May 2019
Fish enclosures now grabbers’ favourite tool
Building of fish enclosures as a means to encroach on canals, waterbodies and even rivers is plaguing the country in recent times. The plague has almost reached epidemic proportions in Khulna’s Botiaghata upazila.
29 April 2019
Voter list updating begins
With a target to collect information about 1.8 lakh voters, the Election Commission started a voter list updating programme in Khulna district yesterday.
23 April 2019
Reunited after 10 years
Though it had been over 10 years since she saw him, it took Selina Akhter less than 10 seconds to recognise her father on Friday.
20 April 2019
Jute mills workers withdraw 96hr strike
Jute mill workers have withdrawn their strike, protests and blockade, following a five-hour meeting with government officials held in Dhaka on Monday night around 11:30 pm.
16 April 2019
The tightening noose of golden fibre
The jute industry is in such deep debt that it would have to sell an arm and a leg, and perhaps both kidneys too, to be able to pay all that it owes their workers.
11 April 2019
Testament to atrocities
“I stood motionless in front of a table where a broken helmet and Pakistani currency were displayed at the martyred gallery.
25 March 2019
Trapped in their own home
In 2003, Ashor Khalashi bought a piece of land in Khulna city with all the savings he had.
24 February 2019
KCC mayor vows to free up canals
Khulna City Corporation (KCC) Mayor Talukder Abdul Khaleque yesterday vowed to free all 22 canals of the city from encroachment, and urged all stakeholders to help the upcoming eviction drive, after mapping and demarcation of the canals.
4 February 2019
Khulna Medical College: Acute teacher shortage hampers education
An acute shortage of teachers has been hampering academic and administrative activities at Khulna Medical College (KMC) for a long time, making life difficult for teachers and students alike.
2 February 2019
Sound pollution falls on deaf ears
Noise pollution has turned acute in Khulna city, as sound levels have gone beyond the permissible level at many points of the city, putting public health at risk.
29 January 2019