Dipankar Roy

The bodies of three people who were killed in last week’s violence centring a political rally in Gopalganj were exhumed yesterday for post-mortem examinations, five days after burial.

Ramzan Munshi, 35, was not involved in politics. He spent his days pulling a rented rickshaw and lived alone in a small room in the yard of his family’s home in Gopalganj town.

The cases have been filed with Gopalganj Sadar, Kashiani, and Kotalipara police stations

The Jashore-Khulna highway, a vital artery for the country’s southwestern trade routes, is now in a state of disrepair. Serving as the main corridor connecting Benapole along with Noapara river port, Mongla sea port, and Bhomra land port, the highway has become nearly impassable due to recent monsoon rains and unfinished work.

Five years on: Jute mill revival uneven, workers face deepening poverty

The shrimp industry, known as Bangladesh’s “white gold”, significantly boosts foreign exchange earnings and supports thousands of marginalised farmers, especially in the Khulna region.

The suspension of academic activities at Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (Kuet) entered its 133rd day today, following violent clashes involving students and teachers on February 18.

The 2.37-kilometre Sheikh Abu Naser Bypass Road in Khulna city, stretching from Sheikh Abu Naser Specialised Hospital to the City Bypass intersection, has been in a state of utter disrepair for over 15 years.

Staff unpaid as VC post remains vacant for over four months

The first heavy downpour of this monsoon since Monday has left most areas of Khulna city under knee-deep water, while adjoining low-lying areas were submerged under waist-high water -- exposing the inefficacy of the Tk 823 crore drainage improvement project of Khulna City Corporation (KCC).

Amid the ongoing intense heat wave gripping the region, Khulna Medical College Hospital is struggling to accommodate the rising daily influx of patients suffering from heat-related illnesses, overwhelming the hospital’s capacity.

Chui-jhal, a traditional aromatic spice widely used in southern Bangladesh, especially in the Khulna region

An embankment of the Kopotakkho river in Koyra has collapsed

Financial operations at standstill as campus remains without leadership; over 1,100 await salaries

Campus in deadlock since February clashes; teachers demand credible leadership

On May 20, 1971, Chuknagar, a quiet border village in Dumuria upazila of Khulna, became the site of a brutal yet overlooked massacre during Bangladesh's Liberation War

Students of Khulna University of Engineering and Technology yesterday demonstrated demanding resumption of academic activities.

Till last year, every morning before dawn, Nimai Chandra Roy’s house in Khulna’s Batiaghata upazila used to be a gathering point for his neighbours -- not for any festival, but for survival.

Mayur river, a major lifeline in Khulna that has long been plagued by encroachments and pollution, still remains on the brink of death despite two excavation projects to revive it over the past decade.

Students, who had staged a 57-hour hunger strike, broke their fast shortly after the announcement