The New Nation - Internet Edition

UNB, Barisal

Necessary preparations have been taken for holding the second meeting of the advisory council of caretaker government here outside Dhaka scheduled to be held at the local Circuit House today.

More than 1,500 additional forces with uniform and plain clothes from different law enforcing agencies, including special security forces and presidential guard regiment, have already been deployed in the key points of the city, routes, meeting places and residences of the advisory council members.

Check-posts at the different entry points, transports, roads and highways have been installed while residential hotels and public gathering places were kept in regular vigilance.

All types of gathering, function, indoor and outdoor meetings in the city and surrounding areas of the CA's travel route have been postponed for two days from Thursday.

Chief Advisor Dr Fakhruddin Ahmad will land at Barisal Airport today. After attending the meeting, he will go to Rajapur upazila in Jhalakati district.

He will leave here on Friday morning.