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Midday Brief, Thursday, August 29, 2019

29 August 2019, 09:48 AM

UPDATED 29 August 2019, 15:53 PM

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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

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