Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Director General Major General Mohammad Ashrafulzaman Siddiqui announced intensified operations along the Sundarbans border to curb piracy and banditry. He confirmed the Coast Guard is conducting parallel operations in a joint effort to maintain security. Speaking after inaugurating a safe drinking water project in Kaikhali, Shyamnagar upazila, the BGB chief said coastal communities suffer from acute water shortages, often forced to drink unsafe pond and rainwater. The Tk 5.6 million project, he said, is a humanitarian initiative by the BGB. He urged locals to provide credible intelligence to aid security forces and later distributed food and medical aid to over a hundred residents.