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Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to leave Dhaka for New Delhi today on a two-day bilateral visit to India at the invitation of her Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi.

This is her second trip to India in less than 15 days after the Bharatiya Janata Party formed the government for the third consecutive term.


‘Prime minister Sheikh Hasina, along with her entourage, will leave Dhaka for Palam airport on Friday afternoon by a special flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines,’ the Prime Minister’s Office announced in a press release in Dhaka on Wednesday.

The two leaders would hold bilateral talks at Hyderabad House in New Delhi on June 22, according to the release. 

The Teesta development project, signing of the long pending Teesta water sharing deal, renewal of the Ganges Water Sharing Treaty signed in 1996, and connectivity of the north-eastern states of India through Bangladesh are likely to dominate the PM-level meeting, said foreign ministry officials concerned, adding that at least 10 deals, including memorandums of understanding, would be signed between the two countries during the visit. 

Foreign ministry spokesperson and also director general of the Public Diplomacy wing, Seheli Sabrin, told ¶¶Òõ¾«Æ· that the ministry did not arrange any press briefing this time on the PM’s Delhi visit in the absence of the foreign minister, Hasan Mahmud, who was visiting Saudi Arabia to perform Hajj.