Midday Brief, Tuesday, January 29, 2019

29 January 2019

UPDATED 29 January 2019

Hossain Ali peeling the bark of a date tree at a resort in Gazipur's Pubail. In winter, the 45-year-old man hangs clay pots on date trees in the area every afternoon and collects the containers, filled with date palm syrup, the next morning. Ali earns Tk 4,000-5,000 a month by selling it. The photo was taken recently. Photo: STAR/ Sk Enamul Haq

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Here are the headlines so far on January 29, 2019
National
Gang-rape accused killed in Chattogram ‘gunfight’
2 die as truck falls into ditch in Ashulia
‘Embarrassing low’ for Bangladesh in graft
‘Mild cold wave likely in next 72hrs’
4,439 road crash deaths in 2018: Ilias Kanchan
Mass hearing on migrant workers every month
Wife to die for killing Rangpur lawyer Rathish Chandra
5 linked with Sri Lanka drug trafficking ring held
World
Enact Annan’s recommendations: Unicef to Myanmar
US charges China's Huawei with conspiring to violate Iran sanctions
Sports
AB, one of the ‘good’ people