If you need to go to office or do any work in some part of the
capital today and tomorrow, make sure you avoid the routes Indian Prime
Minister Narendra Modi would use.
This is because he will be visiting some places in and around the city during his two-day visit to Bangladesh. Some major roads will be off limits to commuters for a reasonable period of time to make his trips safe.
Modi is expected to arrive at Shahjalal International Airport at 10:15am today. He will go directly to the National Memorial at Savar to pay homage to the martyrs of the Liberation War.
He will head for Bangabandhu Memorial Museum in Dhanmondi before going to Sonargaon Hotel around 1:15pm. The Indian leader will go to the Prime Minister's Office around 3:30pm and return to hotel around 9:30pm.
Security personnel will restrict traffic on those roads for a longer period than they usually do during the trips of the Bangladesh prime minister, said a top traffic police official, preferring anonymity.
“But we will tighten security on roads if the Special Security Force asked us to do so,” he added.
Tomorrow, Modi will visit the Dhakeshwari Temple in Lalbagh, Ramkrishna Mission in Gopibagh, Indian High Commission in Baridhara, and the Bangabhaban. He is expected to leave Dhaka at 8:20pm.
Security in the city has already been tightened ahead of Modi's visit.
“Apart from the law enforcement agencies, the city leaders of the ruling Awami League will remain alert to any trouble,” said a deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP).
Street vendors in several areas of the capital have been evicted from footpaths. Law enforcers also set up check posts on roads, said police.
SM Jahangir Alam Sarker, acting deputy commissioner (media) of DMP, said they already planned to ensure tight security measures in and around the airport and in places Modi would visit. Top DMP officials were co-coordinating the measures.
The Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) will deploy bomb disposal teams and dog squads at the venues. They will set up additional check posts on roads. Besides, Rab men on motorcycles will patrol the key areas, said Mufti Mahmud Khan, legal and media wing director of Rab.
During his stay in Dhaka, Modi will be under the security cover of the Indian Special Protection Group and commando force Black Cat.
Indian security and protocol officials are already in the city. They had several meetings with the law enforcement agencies and the protocol unit of the foreign ministry.
This is because he will be visiting some places in and around the city during his two-day visit to Bangladesh. Some major roads will be off limits to commuters for a reasonable period of time to make his trips safe.
Modi is expected to arrive at Shahjalal International Airport at 10:15am today. He will go directly to the National Memorial at Savar to pay homage to the martyrs of the Liberation War.
He will head for Bangabandhu Memorial Museum in Dhanmondi before going to Sonargaon Hotel around 1:15pm. The Indian leader will go to the Prime Minister's Office around 3:30pm and return to hotel around 9:30pm.
Security personnel will restrict traffic on those roads for a longer period than they usually do during the trips of the Bangladesh prime minister, said a top traffic police official, preferring anonymity.
“But we will tighten security on roads if the Special Security Force asked us to do so,” he added.
Tomorrow, Modi will visit the Dhakeshwari Temple in Lalbagh, Ramkrishna Mission in Gopibagh, Indian High Commission in Baridhara, and the Bangabhaban. He is expected to leave Dhaka at 8:20pm.
“Apart from the law enforcement agencies, the city leaders of the ruling Awami League will remain alert to any trouble,” said a deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP).
Street vendors in several areas of the capital have been evicted from footpaths. Law enforcers also set up check posts on roads, said police.
SM Jahangir Alam Sarker, acting deputy commissioner (media) of DMP, said they already planned to ensure tight security measures in and around the airport and in places Modi would visit. Top DMP officials were co-coordinating the measures.
The Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) will deploy bomb disposal teams and dog squads at the venues. They will set up additional check posts on roads. Besides, Rab men on motorcycles will patrol the key areas, said Mufti Mahmud Khan, legal and media wing director of Rab.
During his stay in Dhaka, Modi will be under the security cover of the Indian Special Protection Group and commando force Black Cat.
Indian security and protocol officials are already in the city. They had several meetings with the law enforcement agencies and the protocol unit of the foreign ministry.
