Midday Brief, Friday, July 13, 2018

13 July 2018, 09:56 AM

UPDATED 13 July 2018, 16:04 PM

Vehicles on the capital's first U-loop built near Rampura TV Station at a cost of only Tk 45 crore. Traffic from Banasree area can use the loop to get to Badda, Tejgaon, Karwan Bazar or Moghbazar, without wasting precious hours sitting in gridlocks. Experts have been pressing the government to undertake construction of more such cost-effective solutions to mitigate congestions at the city's other intersections. Photo: STAR/ Palash Khan

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Here are the headlines so far on July 13, 2018

National
3 ‘drug peddlers’ killed in ‘gunfights’ in 3 districts
Moushumi Uncensored
New Indian visa application centre to be inaugurated in Dhaka
World
Blast at Chinese chemical plant kills 19
Ousted Pakistan PM flying home to face jail
Trump receives note from NKorea's Kim, hails progress
UN to send experts to Myanmar after Rohingya return deal
Grit, daring and beating terror: How Thailand's cave boys were rescued
Air strike in eastern Syria kills at least 28 people
Women vow to defy men who banned their vote in Pakistan village
J&J ordered to pay $4.69 bn damages in talc cancer case
Sports
Croatian ‘miracle’ down to teamwork and unity: Dalic
Thai ‘Wild Boars’ return to training after teammates' rescue
A-Z of the 2018 World Cup
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'Zidane and Ronaldo didn't aim to be cinematic’