Dipankar Roy

With a target to collect information about 1.8 lakh voters, the Election Commission started a voter list updating programme in Khulna district yesterday.

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.

Jute mill workers have withdrawn their strike, protests and blockade, following a five-hour meeting with government officials held in Dhaka on Monday night around 11:30 pm.

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.

“I stood motionless in front of a table where a broken helmet and Pakistani currency were displayed at the martyred gallery.

In 2003, Ashor Khalashi bought a piece of land in Khulna city with all the savings he had.

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.

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.

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.

Once, Khulna city was blessed with the flowing waters of over 50 canals.

Police recovered two dead bodies from a rented room at Sonadanga Bus Terminal area in Khulna city on the night of January 18 (Friday).

Most drains of Khulna City Corporation (KCC) have turned into garbage heaps due to unplanned waste disposal and improper waste management. City dwellers are facing environmental degradation and health risks due to blockages in the drainage system and contamination of water resources near uncontrolled dumping sites.

The numbers from Sunday's parliamentary polls in Khulna indicate that voters turned out in droves to exercise their rights, with the exception of the one constituency where electronic voting took place.

The voters from minority communities will play a major role in the six constituencies of Khulna during tomorrow's polls as they hold a large stake in the area's vote bank.

A tough competition awaits candidates in Khulna-3 constituency (Khalishpur, Daulatpur and Khanjahan Ali) as around 25 percent of the total voters, consisting of jute mill workers, are still indecisive.

Confusion remains among many over casting votes using electronic voting machines in Satkhira-2 and Khulna-2 as they have no practical knowledge of the machines.

Promises of further development work are Awami League contestants' election mantra in Khulna while the BNP candidates are pledging “restoration of democracy”.

A rifle slung on her back, grenades stashed in her pockets, and a five-month-old baby in her arms was how freedom fighters in the Sundarbans witnessed as Khurshid Jahan joined them in the Liberation War in 1971.

The Jatiya Oikyafront candidates in the six constituencies of Khulna are heavily depending on female activists for their campaigns as most of the men are either on the run or under cover fearing police.

With the election 14 days away, campaigning should be in full swing but the situation in Khulna is different.