Khulna district sees 33 killings in nine months
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Like every day, Akhtar Dhali, 55, was sitting at a tea stall beside a mosque in Durjanimahal village of Rupsha upazila after Maghrib prayers on Monday.
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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
Day labourer turns successful retailer
Malmolia village in Khulna's Dumuria upazila is remote. Thirty-five kilometres from the city, it doesn't have sealed roads or grid
25 May 2017
Igniting the flame
At first, Srabonti Saha Adhara was a bit perplexed when she heard she had to attend a self-defence class at her school.
16 May 2017
Khulna tax zone registers 1 lakh TIN-holders
The tax zone in Khulna has hit a significant milestone after registering 100,000 taxpayer's identification numbers in 2016-17, the
7 May 2017
Crab catching unabated near Sundarbans
Random catching of mother crabs in different rivers and canals in the coastal areas adjacent to the Sundarbans is going on unabated,
30 March 2017
Use of banned net killing fish resources
To stroll along the Pankhali Ferry Ghat riverbank via Chalna Bazar in Khulna's Dacope upazila is to watch fishers busy, dawn to dusk, as they haul fine-mesh triangular nets in the hope of collecting juvenile shrimp.
28 March 2017
Welcome to the genocide museum
Rare pictures and paintings depicting the genocide of Bangalees by the Pakistan army hang on the wall. There is also a rich collection
23 March 2017
Precious water for people in need
Even three months ago, Josna Biswas of Chalna municipality in Khulna's Dakop upazila had to walk 1.5km twice a day to fetch two pitchers of water from the municipality pond.
21 March 2017
Khulna water crisis will be over in a yr
The construction of a Tk 2,558 crore water treatment plant, which will ensure safe drinking water for the 1.6 million
6 March 2017
Of plants & healing
Naznin Akhter Nipa's garden in Katianangla, in Khulna's Batiaghata upazila, is full of weird and wonderful plants. Some, like pineapple,
15 February 2017
No efforts yet to salvage sunken ship
Ten days have gone but nobody seems to be in a hurry to recover MV Aichgati, which went down in the Pasur near the Sundarbans
23 January 2017
Footpath, road grabbing woes for Khulna pedestrians
Like other divisional cities including Dhaka, the hawkers in Khulna keep grabbing the city footpaths too, causing sufferings to
29 November 2016
Easy bikes plaguing Khulna city
Over 13,000 unauthorised battery-run auto-rickshaws are plying Khulna city streets and the number of the vehicle,
11 September 2016
Rain worsens water-logging in Bhabodaha
The recent downpour for a couple of days has brought immense sufferings to around 1.3 million people, already affected by water-
29 August 2016