Plastic waste clogs Khulna drains
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Roads submerged in murky water, residents wading through knee-deep water, neighbourhoods becoming inaccessible and vehicles breaking down have become common scenes during the monsoon in Khulna city.
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Dengue surge overwhelms Khulna hospitals
16 August 2026
Dengue cases have surged across Khulna in recent weeks, putting hospitals under severe pressure.
16 August 2026
Dengue surge overwhelms Khulna hospitals as deaths, admissions climb
15 August 2026
Bed shortages are forcing hospitals to expand wards as patients crowd facilities across the division
15 August 2026
Frequent power cuts put small businesses under pressure
13 August 2026
Amid the rolling blackouts, some businesses are spending more to produce the same amount of goods, while others are taking much longer to meet delivery deadlines
13 August 2026
Business Plus / The fall of an industrial city
8 August 2026
Khulna’s industrial belt now lies largely abandoned, with its people leaving too
8 August 2026
Ranjit Baowali no more but struggle for Bhobodoh remains
7 August 2026
Veteran grassroots leader and convener of Bhobodoh Water Drainage Movement Committee died on Wednesday
7 August 2026
Power shortages threaten Khulna’s shrimp sector
7 August 2026
Frequent power outages across southwestern Bangladesh are pushing the country’s export-oriented shrimp industry deeper into uncertainty, disrupting production at farms and processing factories as growers and exporters grapple with prolonged electricity shortages.
7 August 2026
Power shortages threaten Khulna’s shrimp sector
6 August 2026
Frequent power outages across southwestern Bangladesh are pushing the country’s export-oriented shrimp industry deeper into uncertainty, disrupting production at farms and processing factories as growers and exporters grapple with prolonged electricity shortages.
6 August 2026
First cyclone Remal, now floods: Khulna villages submerged again
Cyclones, river erosions, and floods -- people in coastal Bangladesh have been fighting natural disasters on a regular basis, and each year is turning out to be increasingly more challenging than the previous one due to climate change.
25 August 2024
It’s radio silence in Khulna
In the heart of Khulna, the Bangladesh Betar centre stood as a beacon of community, culture, and information. Established in 1970, it quickly became a cherished institution, bridging gaps between rural life and broader societal developments.
15 August 2024
KCC services in a shambles
Most of the councillors’ offices in the 31 wards of Khulna City Corporation have remained locked following a spree of vandalism and looting after Sheikh Hasina’s resignation on August 5.
13 August 2024
Waste piles up across Khulna city
Heaps of waste are piling up in various corners of Khulna city as the city corporation’s conservation workers have stopped working following the power vacuum after Sheikh Hasina’s fall.
9 August 2024
New khulna district jail: Construction works drag on for 12 years
The construction of a modern prison of the Khulna District Jail has remained incomplete for 12 years.
31 July 2024
Waste being dumped near KU’s main entrance
In the vicinity of the main entrance of Khulna University, merely 200 metres from the four-lane Sher-e-Bangla Road, an important thoroughfare in Khulna stretching from Zero Point to Moilapota intersection, awaits an abominable sight -- a waste dumping ground.
30 July 2024
Curfew casts long shadow on low-income people
Shafiq Mandal, 65, who works as a porter and ticket broker at Sonadanga Bus Terminal in Khulna city, was seen sorting some rusted iron rods and bars at an abandoned car garage near the terminal on Friday noon.
27 July 2024
Investment in the south is underwhelming even after Padma Bridge
Two years have passed since the inauguration of Padma Bridge, but the southern region has still not managed to tap the potential brought about by the mega-project due to a lack of physical infrastructure and utilities.
19 July 2024
Unpaved for 50 years
The 14-kilometre-long Bajua-Podderganj road of Bangladesh Water Development Board in Khulna’s Dacope upazila has been connecting around 8,000 people across several villages in the upazila for around half a century.
16 July 2024
Abandoned hostels, unbound sufferings
An eerie silence prevails on the once bustling campus of Khulna Polytechnic Institute as its four dormitories have been lying abandoned for 15 years.
12 July 2024
Khulna city waterlogged after 55mm rain in 3hrs
A torrential downpour lasting around three hours this morning left most roads and low-lying areas of Khulna city submerged, causing significant suffering for residents
12 July 2024
Aman farmers worry over lack of rain
Paddy farmers in Khulna division are worried as a lack of rainfall on the onset of Aman season threatens to adversely affect cultivation.
5 July 2024
Coastal women and their woeful walk for water
At the break of dawn, women of all ages -- daughters, mothers, homemakers -- set out in search for safe drinking water.
28 June 2024
Illegal housing mushrooms
As many as 153 housing projects have sprung up illegally in Khulna and its adjoining areas without approval from the city’s development authority and the Department of Environment.
24 June 2024
275-year-old temple on verge of ruin
A 275-year-old Jor Bangla temple, located in Khulna city’s Maheshwarpasha area, is on the verge of collapse.
23 June 2024
The forgotten female footballers of Khulna
Wearing shorts and playing football -- these reasons were enough for some locals to attack under-17 female footballers of Super Queen Football Academy at Tentultala village in Khulna in July last year.
14 June 2024
Dev projects, dust pollution go hand in hand in Khulna
Khulna city residents are suffering immensely as dust pollution has taken an alarming turn over the last couple of years due to several ongoing development projects.
14 June 2024
Of damaged dams and sleepless nights
Displacement fear looms over thousands living in 5 unions of Khulna’s Koyra
8 June 2024
Plastic Pollution invades the Sundarbans
A group of primates wrestled with a plastic bag caught in the tangled roots of a mangrove tree. Their screeches echoed through the dense forest as they tore at the flimsy material, desperate for the scraps of food trapped inside.
4 June 2024
Sundarbans: no time to heal between cyclones
In 2007, Cyclone Sidr ripped through the Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest. The forest took the brunt of the storm, saving human lives by slowing down its destructive force.
2 June 2024