, Jan. 8 -- Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain on Thursday confirmed that they have asked its three key diplomatic missions in India to keep their visa sections closed for a time being on security grounds.

"What I have done is that I have asked our three missions to keep their visa sections closed for the time being. It's a security issue," he said while responding to a question at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Though he did not mention the names of the missions, a diplomatic source said the three missions are Bangladesh High Commission in New Delhi, Deputy High Commission in Kolkata and Bangladesh Assistant High Commission Agartala.

There are Bangladesh Missions stationed in Mumbai and Chennai, too.

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