report in Prothom Alo, Nov 12, 2023A total of 152 platoons of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) have been deployed across the country to maintain law and order as the latest 48-hour countrywide blockade called by the BNP, Jamaat and likeminded opposition parties is underway. Shariful Islam, public relations officer (PRO) at BGB headquarters, confirmed the development on Sunday morning. Today, on the first day of the 48-hour blockade, 27 BGB platoons were deployed in Dhaka…
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report in ECONOMYNEXT, May 14, 2023 at 5:21 pm– Thousands of heavily armed troops and elite commandos were deployed Sri Lanka’s capital following a false alarm based on an unusually large lunch order at the Colombo university, top security sources said Sunday. Panic-stricken police chiefs of the Western province mobilised special Task Force Commandos, riot squads and contingents of women constables to deal with what they believed was another uprising led by undergraduates. “Intelligence units…
By Mirudhula Thambiah in The Morning, Feb 21, 2023Security personnel from the Army as well as the Police were deployed in front of the Government Printing Department yesterday (20), not to provide security for ballot paper printing but due to the protest that was held in Colombo by the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB). Speaking to The Daily Morning, Police Media Spokesman, Senior Superintendent of Police and Attorney Nihal Thalduwa said that a special security plan…