Dipankar Roy

Coastal villagers switch to LPG from Sundarbans’ firewood

Gone are the days when cooking meals twice a day used to take a toll on Salma Begum.

1d ago

The enduring allure of Khulna’s Nana Halim

Every day during Ramadan, food enthusiasts gather in large numbers at a small outlet in front of Pioneer Women’s College on South Central Road in Khulna.

1w ago

Load shedding cripples life in Khulna city

Tushar Kanti Das lives on the ground floor of a three-storey house on Sabuj Sangh Math Road of ward-6 in Khulna city.  After a long day of work as a sales representative for a pharmaceutical company, he would have to suffer the woes of load shedding as soon as he returned home for the past week.

1w ago

A broken leg, a football academy and a dream

When Sathi Munda stepped up to take Bangladesh’s fifth and final penalty in the shootout against India on March 10, 2024, the fate of the SAFF Under-16 Women’s Championship title was hanging in the balance.

1w ago

A new hope for farmers in Khulna

The killing of Sazzaduzzaman, 30, a forest officer in Cox’s Bazar, was not the first time that a forest official got killed by those involved in hill razing and tree felling in the forest areas of Cox’s Bazar.

2w ago

KCC councillor’s men fill up waterbody on BR land

An eight feet deep waterbody on 66-decimal land owned by Bangladesh Railway in Khulna city has allegedly been filled up by followers of a city corporation councillor. Now plans are afoot to build a park and other structures there.

2w ago

Preserving a painful past

Madhab Chandra Bairagi and Sourav Goldar were among the more than 500 people who were brutally killed by the Pakistani Army men at Badamtala area in Batiaghata upazila of Khulna on May 19, 1971.

3w ago

Gallamari Mass Grave: Still bearing marks of butchery

Anyone in Khulna who either witnessed the Liberation War of 1971 or is aware of the regions’s war-history will shudder at the name of Gallamari mass grave.

3w ago
April 17, 2024
April 17, 2024

Coastal villagers switch to LPG from Sundarbans’ firewood

Gone are the days when cooking meals twice a day used to take a toll on Salma Begum.

April 7, 2024
April 7, 2024

Load shedding cripples life in Khulna city

Tushar Kanti Das lives on the ground floor of a three-storey house on Sabuj Sangh Math Road of ward-6 in Khulna city.  After a long day of work as a sales representative for a pharmaceutical company, he would have to suffer the woes of load shedding as soon as he returned home for the past week.

April 7, 2024
April 7, 2024

The enduring allure of Khulna’s Nana Halim

Every day during Ramadan, food enthusiasts gather in large numbers at a small outlet in front of Pioneer Women’s College on South Central Road in Khulna.

April 6, 2024
April 6, 2024

A broken leg, a football academy and a dream

When Sathi Munda stepped up to take Bangladesh’s fifth and final penalty in the shootout against India on March 10, 2024, the fate of the SAFF Under-16 Women’s Championship title was hanging in the balance.

April 2, 2024
April 2, 2024

A new hope for farmers in Khulna

The killing of Sazzaduzzaman, 30, a forest officer in Cox’s Bazar, was not the first time that a forest official got killed by those involved in hill razing and tree felling in the forest areas of Cox’s Bazar.

March 31, 2024
March 31, 2024

KCC councillor’s men fill up waterbody on BR land

An eight feet deep waterbody on 66-decimal land owned by Bangladesh Railway in Khulna city has allegedly been filled up by followers of a city corporation councillor. Now plans are afoot to build a park and other structures there.

March 27, 2024
March 27, 2024

Preserving a painful past

Madhab Chandra Bairagi and Sourav Goldar were among the more than 500 people who were brutally killed by the Pakistani Army men at Badamtala area in Batiaghata upazila of Khulna on May 19, 1971.

March 24, 2024
March 24, 2024

In search of pure drinking water

When Sonaban Bibi, 62, got married 46 years ago, there was a pond next to her house, from which she managed to fetch drinking water.

March 24, 2024
March 24, 2024

Gallamari Mass Grave: Still bearing marks of butchery

Anyone in Khulna who either witnessed the Liberation War of 1971 or is aware of the regions’s war-history will shudder at the name of Gallamari mass grave.

March 16, 2024
March 16, 2024

Climate resilient agriculture

Even three years back, vast lands would remain barren throughout most of the year in Koyra upazila of Khulna due to high level of salinity in the nearby rivers and waterbodies.

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