Founded under a 1990 act and teaching since 1991, Khulna University is the south-west's public university — and the only one in Bangladesh with no student politics and no session jams. From its 106-acre Gollamari campus beside the Moyur River, its 29 disciplines run from computer science to Sundarbans forestry research.
Ferdousi Priyabhashini (1947–2018) was a self-taught Bangladeshi sculptor who made art from driftwood, roots and discarded natural material — and the first woman to publicly announce herself as a Birangona, breaking decades of silence about the women assaulted during the Liberation War. She received the Independence Award in 2010 and was gazetted a freedom fighter in 2016.
Read MoreKhulna city profile: the Sundarbans gateway on the Rupsha and Bhairab rivers — 719,557 people at the 2022 census, Mongla Port's record FY2024-25, the 2020 closure of its nine state jute mills, shrimp exports, Khulna Shipyard, salinity and drinking-water stress, and a four-and-a-half-hour road link to Dhaka via the Padma Bridge.
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