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Tight Security arrangements for PM Modi : Return of violence in Bangladesh; NE ultras step up violence, 20 Indian Army jawans killed in Manipur ambush
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Tight Security arrangements for PM Modi : Return of violence in Bangladesh; NE ultras step up violence, 20 Indian Army jawans killed in Manipur ambush
PHOTO : Army doing combing operation. TIWN /IANS File Photo

AGARTALA / IMPHAL / DHAKA, June 4 (TIWN): Indian intelligence agencies, RAW,IB,Military intelligence working closely with Bangladesh counterparts on elaborate security details for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his June 6-7 Dhaka visit. Modi’s visit will be his first after he became the prime minister last year. According to a Bangladesh home ministry official, security agencies discussing the details of PM Modi's security Several units of the agencies will work on a plan to be made on Intel reports. Report says keeping eye violence in Commila Bangladesh security agencies stepped up their activities and they have been working round the clock to ensure Narendra Modi's full proof security. Dhaka Metropolitan police is trying for violence free Dhaka during Indian Prime Minister’s stay in Dhaka.At least 20 Indian Army jawans were killed and several others were injured when suspected militants ambushed their convoy in Manipur's Chandel district, an official said.A team of 6 Dogra Regiment was on a routine road opening patrol.An army spokesman said that the militants first fired rocket-propelled grenades at the four-vehicle convoy which was on its way to Imphal from Chandel.The ambush took place when the convoy reached between Paralong and Charong villages around 8.30 a.m. Assam's ULFA, Tripura's NLFT, other factions of ATTF alongwith Bangladesh HUJI, Jamat planning further major strikes across this region on the eve of Modi-Hasina historic summit.The Indian prime minister is scheduled to arrive in Shahjalal International Airport tentatively10:45am on June 6.

PM likely  go to the National Memrorial at Savar first to pay homage to the martyrs of the 1971 Liberation War. He will stay at Sonargaon Hotel and leave on the following day.
But ahead of Indian Prime Minister’s visit in Bangladesh ominous return of the violence earlier this year, a bus was attacked with a petrol bomb early on Wednesday in Comilla, leaving five passengers burnt.

Detective Branch has been working on the matter for two weeks. DB  ’ll make a plan to arrange tight security around the airport and the places he will go to.
 RAB spokesman said “Narendra Modi is the Prime minister of a large country like India. So we are taking extra measures.”
He said plainclothesmen will be around the places to be visited by Modi.
 “Along with the RAB members, bomb disposal teams will be ready at the venues. RAB teams on motorcycles will also patrol the areas,” he said.
According to highly placed source the Helicopters will also be kept ready, said RAB spokeperson. A top Bangladeshi home ministry official said India was also informing them about the important issues on the security of Modi.
The firebombing on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway at Comilla’s Chandina Upazila left three others injured. The bus was attacked some time after 12am near the Jute Research Institute.
The five who sustained burns were identified as Anjan Dey, Ranjit Sharma and Suman Chandra Debnath from Rangamati, Md Imran of Gopalganj and Jhenaidah’s Bazlur Rahman.
 Dey and Sharma have been sent to the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital in critical condition. The others are being treated at the Comilla Medical College and Hospital.
 The bus, heading to Rangamati from Dhaka, caught fire after a few men hurled a petrol bomb at it.  Eight passengers—five of them burnt—were injured in the attack.

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