Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina offered prayers at the Ajmer Sharif Dargah on Thursday afternoon.Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina in India Highlights: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheik Hasina who is on a Delhi visit since Monday, paid obeisance at the dargah of Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti in Ajmer on Thursday afternoon. She was given a red carpet welcome at the dargah amid tight security arrangements. Hasina performed ziyarat at the shrine. According to the protocols followed for visits by a head of a nation, there was no other devotee on the dargah premises and the dargah market was also closed.
Meanwhile, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday slammed the Centre for not inviting her to be a part of PM Hasina’s ongoing visit to India. Banerjee also said she was curious over why the BJP-led central government was “worried” about her meeting Hasina.
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is on a four-day tour to India. (FILE/PIC)
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina offered her prayers at Ajmer Sharif Dargah in Rajasthan on Thursday afternoon.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday slammed the Centre for not inviting her to be a part of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's ongoing visit to India.
Banerjee also said she was curious over why the BJP-led central government was “worried” about her meeting Hasina.
"I share an excellent relationship with Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina, but (the Centre) did not invite me to be a part of her visit," she said while addressing a special session of the Trinamool Congress.
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina paid obeisance at the dargah of Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti in Ajmer on Thursday afternoon.
She was given a red carpet welcome at the dargah amid tight security arrangements. Hasina performed ziyarat at the shrine. According to the protocols followed for visits by a head of a nation, there was no other devotee on the dargah premises and the dargah market was also closed.
Hasina and her delegation reached the Jaipur International Airport from Delhi by a special aircraft. She was received by Rajasthan State Education Minister B D Kalla and top officials. (PTI)
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who is in India since Monday, will visit the Ajmer Dargah in Rajasthan today.
PM Hasina left for Ajmer from New Delhi in the morning. Police personnel have been deployed near the mosque and at several locations in Ajmer to monitor security.
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said the relationship between Bangladesh and India is a role model for neighbourhood diplomacy worldwide.
"Having forged a strong partnership over the last 50 years, both countries are working on an increasingly wide range of sectoral collaboration," Hasina said at a function to award the "Mujib Scholarship" to the direct descendants of the Indian soldiers and officers killed or critically wounded during the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971.
Hasina said Bangladesh should not forget that India, its government, people and armed forces stood beside the country during its Liberation War. (PTI)
India has nudged Bangladesh to implement a three-year- old agreement that allows it to set up a network of surveillance radars along the coastline of the neighbouring country.
The issue came up during the bilateral talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and visiting Bangladesh premier Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday.
"The Indian side reiterated its request for implementing the 2019 MoU for providing a coastal radar system for greater maritime security, at an early date," said a joint statement issued by the two countries during the ongoing four-day state visit of Hasina to India.
The Memorandum of Understanding to set up coastal surveillance radar systems in Bangladesh was signed during Hasina's visit to India in 2019. (PTI)
Conferment of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Student scholarships to 100 students of class 10 & 100 students of class 12, is a homage to Indian heroes who made supreme sacrifice for our cause, says Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina.
"We pay our respects to Indian soldiers who lost their lives during the Bangladesh liberation war in 1971. It's an honour for us to remember Indian brothers & war veterans who sacrifice their lives for our independence & sovereignty," visitng Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina said in Delhi.
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Ahead of her arrival in India, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said the Rohingya were “a big burden” on her country, and suggested India could play a role in persuading Myanmar to take them back.
Briefing the media Tuesday on Hasina’s visit, Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra did not respond directly to a flurry of questions on whether the Bangladesh side had raised the issue. Read More
During their talks yesterday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina discussed a wide range of issues, including security cooperation, defence, power, energy and development cooperation, according to a statement released by the Ministry of External Affairs. "They also agreed to collaborate in new areas of cooperation, such as, environment, climate change, cyber security, ICT, space technology, green energy and blue economy," the statement read.
Following a meeting with the visiting Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said India and Bangladesh will soon commence negotiations on a Bilateral Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA).
“We both believe that by taking lessons from the Covid pandemic and recent global developments, we need to make our economies stronger,” Modi said. “With the expansion of connectivity between our two countries, and the development of trade infrastructure on the border, the two economies will be able to connect more with each other, support each other.
Our bilateral trade is growing rapidly. Today, India is the largest market in Asia for Bangladesh’s exports. To further accelerate this growth, we will soon start discussions on the Bilateral Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement,” he said. Read more.
Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday met visiting Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina here. The Congress said the two leaders had a fruitful discussion on a number of issues.
The meeting took place at Hotel ITC Maurya in Chanakyapuri. "Met the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, H.E. Sheikh Hasina, earlier today," Gandhi said in a Facebook post. "India and Bangladesh are natural allies and it's crucial that both our countries work towards strengthening this bond," he also said.
The Bangladeshi prime minister arrived here on Monday on a four-day visit to hold talks with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi following which the two sides are likely to ink pacts in key areas, including defence, trade and river water sharing. (PTI)
Visiting Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said Tuesday that “as long as Prime Minister (Narendra) Modi is here, Bangladesh and India will resolve” problems between them.
She said this in the context of sharing river waters as the two countries signed an interim water sharing agreement for the Kushiyara river, the first such pact between them in over 25 years — the Ganga water treaty was signed in 1996. The two sides also decided to start negotiations on a comprehensive trade pact and strengthen cooperation against terrorism and radicalism.
Speaking after her bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Modi in New Delhi, Hasina said: “Both countries have achieved remarkable progress in a number of areas. I recall that the two countries have resolved many outstanding issues in the spirit of friendship and cooperation, and hope that all outstanding issues including the Teesta water-sharing treaty will be concluded at an early date.” Read more.
Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday met Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina here. The Congress said the two leaders had a fruitful discussion on a number of issues. The meeting took place at Hotel ITC Maurya in Chanakyapuri.
The Bangladeshi prime minister arrived here on Monday on a four-day visit to hold talks with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi following which the two sides are likely to ink pacts in key areas, including defence, trade and river water sharing.
Hasina, who last visited the country in 2019, was received at the airport by Union Minister Darshana Jardosh and held bilateral talks with Modi on Tuesday in the national capital. (PTI)
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday called on President Droupadi Murmu, who said bilateral ties between India and Bangladesh have grown immensely and have always been guided by the spirit of cooperation and mutual trust.
Welcoming the Bangladeshi leader at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, President Murmu noted that the two countries are connected by shared history, language and culture and assured that India will continue to be a reliable partner in the development journey of its neighbour.
Murmu noted that under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Prime Minister Hasina, bilateral ties between India and Bangladesh have grown immensely, said a statement issued by the Rashtrapati Bhavan. (PTI)
The Indian Railways will provide training to the employees of the Bangladesh Railway as well as offer IT solutions for the computerisation of its passenger ticketing and freight operations, according to two MoUs inked between the two countries on Tuesday.
The two MoUs were signed during Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's ongoing visit to New Delhi.
One memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed between the Ministry of Railways (Railway Board), Government of India and the Ministry of Railways, Government of Bangladesh on training Bangladesh Railway personnel in India envisages a framework of cooperation and to facilitate the training at the institutes of the Indian Railways. (PTI)
Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina announced the Mujib Scholarship on Tuesday for the direct descendants of the Indian soldiers killed or grievously injured in the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War.
The awards will be conferred on Wednesday, she said. The award is named after Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Hasina's father.
According to reports, a total of 200 family members of Indian Army personnel will receive the scholarship. "We are grateful for the valuable support from the government and the people of India in the great war of liberation of Bangladesh in 1971, which was a watershed moment in our bilateral relations. (PTI)
India and Bangladesh on Tuesday signed a water-sharing agreement and six other pacts, including ones on space technology and scientific collaboration, aimed at boosting ties between the two countries.
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is making a four-day visit to India that is seen as politically significant in her home country, which is scheduled to hold a general election next year. The two leaders agreed to share the waters of the Kushiyara, a common river, in the first such arrangement between the countries since 1996.
The agreement will benefit southern parts of Assam state in India and the Sylhet region in Bangladesh, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said. But a much-anticipated agreement on another river remained at an impasse. For decades, Bangladesh has pushed for a pact on water sharing for the Teesta River, a major transboundary river that begins in India’s Sikkim state and runs through the north of West Bengal state before flowing into Bangladesh. (AP)
Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina arrived in India on Monday on a four-day visit to the country. On Tuesday, she was accorded a tri-services guard of honour.
Hasina was welcomed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during her ceremonial reception at the forecourt of the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
After the reception, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina paid homage to Mahatma Gandhi at his memorial Rajghat in New Delhi. Check out our full gallery here
As long as Prime Minister Narendra Modi is around, New Delhi and Dhaka will find a solution to all bilateral problems, including the Teesta River water-sharing issue, visiting Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said Tuesday.
Speaking after a meeting with Modi in Delhi, Hasina said: “…both the countries have achieved remarkable progress in a number of areas, I recall that the two countries have resolved many outstanding issues in the spirit of friendship and cooperation and will hope that all outstanding issues including the Teesta water-sharing treaty would be concluded at an early date.” Read more
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh, in Delhi on a four-day visit, will hope to return with a bag full of crucial agreements that could stand her in good stead in the country’s next election towards the end of 2023.
Last month, when Bangladesh Foreign Minister Abdul Momen declared at a public gathering that India must ensure PM Hasina stays on in the interests of regional stability, the statement caused red faces on both sides, and the minister did not find place in Hasina’s delegation to Delhi.
It is no secret that India would be more than pleased if PM Hasina were to win a fourth consecutive term. India-Bangladesh ties have seen their best phase under her premiership from 2009. Read more
Even as Sheikh Hasina prepared to board the Biman flight to Delhi, a journey which could well be her last as the prime minister of Bangladesh, India has a surfeit of reasons to be grateful to Bangabandhu’s daughter.
After all, during the last 13 years, Hasina acted against fundamentalists and war criminals in her country that were not only threatening the secular character of Bangladesh but were rabidly anti-India.
She also ably led the crackdown on Indian insurgents that were operating from Bangladesh. Read full Opinion piece by Jaideep Saikia here
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said India and Bangladesh should jointly face terrorist and fundamentalist forces that threaten to attack mutual trust between the two countries. Modi made these remarks after bilateral talks with visiting Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who made a strong pitch for early conclusion of the Teesta water sharing agreement.
"Today we also stressed on cooperation against terrorism and fundamentalism. To keep the spirit of 1971 alive, it is also very necessary that we face such forces together, who want to attack our mutual trust," Modi said.
India and Bangladesh signed seven agreements after the talks between Modi and Hasina, including one on sharing of waters of Kushiyara river which is expected to benefit the regions of southern Assam and Bangladesh's Sylhet region. (PTI)
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Tuesday exuded confidence that India and Bangladesh will be able to resolve all outstanding issues, including the Teesta water-sharing treaty, soon.
“The two countries have resolved many outstanding issues and we hope that all outstanding issues, including Teesta water-sharing treaty, would be concluded at an early date,” she said while issuing a joint statement with PM Narendra Modi, in New Delhi. (ANI)
India will start talks on a comprehensive economic partnership agreement (CEPA) with Bangladesh, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday.
"We also decided to increase cooperation in sectors such as IT, space and nuclear energy," Modi said after holding talks with his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina, who is on a four-day visit to India.
Both countries have been involved in a joint study on the CEPA, which has been in discussions between the two neighbours for many years. Bangladesh is India's largest development partner and the largest regional trade partner, Modi said. (Reuters)
Addressing a joint-press conference with Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina on the sidelines of bilateral talks between the two countries, PM Modi said: "Trade between India-Bangladesh is increasing rapidly. We have decided to extend cooperation in the IT, Space and Nuclear sectors. Talks are also underway b/w India and Bangladesh on power transmission lines."
India and Bangladesh exchanged MoUs in the presence of PM Narendra Modi and Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina, in Delhi.
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina met PM Narendra Modi at Hyderabad House on Tuesday.
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina met PM Narendra Modi at Hyderabad House on Tuesday.
Speaking to reporters in Hindi and English, Sheikh Hasina thanked India for its contribution during the Liberation War in 1971.
Soon after receiving a ceremonial welcome at Rajghat, Bangladesh CM Sheikh Hasina laid a wreath at Rajghat. Take a look.
Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina at Rashtrapati Bhavan: "I hope that it'll be a very fruitful discussion & our main aim to develop economically and also fulfill the basic needs of our people - that we will be able to do. With friendship, you can solve any problem. So, we always do that."
The two Prime Ministers are set to discuss issues related to trade, connectivity and defence today. India and Bangladesh are likely to sign pacts on water sharing on the Kushiyara river, training and IT cooperation in Railways, science, space and media cooperation.
Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of her upcoming discussion with PM Narendra Modi, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said: "India is our friend. Whenever I come to India, it's pleasure for me, especially because we always recall the contribution India has made during our liberation war. We have friendly relationship, we are cooperating with each other." (ANI)
A day after she arrived in India for a four-day visit, Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina received a ceremonial welcome at the Rashtrapati Bhavan on Tuesday morning. She was received by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.