Dipankar Roy

Students have announced a fresh round of protests

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

Once a thriving artery of communication in the Khulna region, the Shibsa River is now a shadow of its former self. Once navigated by large boats, ships, launches, and steamers, the river connected Khulna with Kolkata..In recent decades, however, this vital waterway has been in decline. Wat

When Razia Begum, now 56, got married at just 16, water was not a concern. Like most women in her village of Banisanta in Khulna’s Dacope upazila, she collected freshwater from nearby ponds. Life was simple, and water was abundant.

Noni Gopal Baidya, a resident of Sutarkhali union in Dacope, a southwestern coastal upazila under Khulna division, began farming exportable black tiger shrimp on his 6-7 bighas of land in 1991.

The Maitree Farmers’ Federation and LoCos organised the annual Rural Seed Fair on Thursday at the premises of Brittyshalua Government Primary School in Khulna's Batiaghata to showcase vanishing indigenous seed varieties