Midday Brief, Monday, August 19, 2019

19 August 2019

UPDATED 19 August 2019

Fishermen unloading their hauls of hilsa at a wholesale market in Barishal’s Port Road on August 18, 2019. A huge amount of hilsa was caught during this ongoing peak season and it has decreased the prices by around 30 percent, according to traders. Photo: STAR/ Titu Das

Hello dear readers! How are you doing today?
Here are the news headlines so far on August 19, 2019

National
9th wage board for journalists: Order on Gazette tomorrow
Assaulted by ruling party goons: Nur
FR Tower: Plot owner held for flouting building code
Dengue claims 3 more lives in Mymensingh, Khulna, Faridpur

World
Flood, landslide: 30 killed in northern India
Iran tanker departs after Gibraltar rejects US demand
WeChat brings home missing yaks in Bhutan's remote highland
2 trapped inside cave in Poland
IS claims Afghanistan wedding blast
Shenzhen to be socialism's key pilot zone; HK, Macao set to gain