Midday Brief, Friday, January 18, 2019

18 January 2019, 09:51 AM

UPDATED 18 January 2019, 15:57 PM

Almost the entirety of one side of the Manik Mia Avenue is packed in a traffic gridlock around noon yesterday. Regular commuters said it is quite unusual for the road -- one of the widest in the city -- to be this jammed. PHOTO: PALASH KHAN

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Here are the headlines so far on January 18, 2019

Hello readers! How are you doing today?
Here are the headlines so far on January 18, 2019
National
ShonibarBikel, a film based on Gulshan cafe attack, banned
Bangladeshi killed by ‘BSF’ along Thakurgaon border
Accused in Savar rape case found dead
Rohingyas detained in Saudi Arabia begin hunger strike
World
N Korea envoy in US for preparing 2nd Trump-Kim summit
UK’s Prince Philip ‘shocked and shaken’ after car crash
Japanese satellite launched to deliver artificial meteors
After 600 years, night watchman still keeps vigil over Lausanne
Car bomber kills 10 in Colombia police academy attack
India all set to launch satellite for border security
Oxford says no to additional Huawei funding
Sports
Dembele and Messi see off Levante but Barca Copa hopes in doubt
Mr. 360 ready for the challenge and expecting fireworks
‘Is he an opener, is he a middle-order player, is he an all-rounder?’

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