Midday Brief, Thursday, August 29, 2019

29 August 2019, 09:48 AM

UPDATED 29 August 2019, 15:53 PM

Workers unloading new textbooks from a truck in front of a secondary school in Sylhet’s Dakkhin Surma upazila. The National Curriculum and Textbook Board has been dispatching the textbooks to make sure that every school student gets a new set of books on the first day of next year. Photo: STAR/ Sheikh Enam

Hello dear readers! How are you doing today?
Here are the news headlines so far on August 29, 2019

Hello dear readers! How are you doing today?
Here are the news headlines so far on August 29, 2019

National
PM receives treatment like a general patient
3 ‘criminals’ killed in ‘gunfights’ in Ctg, Cumilla, Gazipur
PM to inaugurate Padma bridge in 2021
Display Bangabandhu’s portrait at courtrooms: HC
Dhaka improves a little, still unsafe: Report
12-year-old dies of dengue in Rangpur
Accept students’ demands, probe graft allegations: TIB to JU