Open air party banned: Bar on entry in Hatirjheel after 8pm

Police have prohibited any New Year party or concert in an open place in Dhaka city. Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Benazir Ahmed told a press conference on Tuesday that they would use cameras to keep vigil on the New Year’s eve to keep order. There would be check posts in the capital’s important thoroughfares in addition to police patrol, he said. ‘No one will be able to enter Hatirjheel area after 8:00pm that day. No outsider will be allowed in Gulshan, Baridhara, Banani and Dhaka University areas after midnight.’ He said the commercial bars would have to down their shutter at 6pm. Among others, Deputy Commissioner Masudur Rahman and traffic police’s Joint Commissioner Mili Biswas were present at the briefing held at the police’s media centre, according to a news agency.