Chief of the Army Staff of Bangladesh General Mohammad Abdul Mubeen, who arrived here on a six-day goodwill visit, on Monday met his Indian counterpart, General Deepak Kapoor, and discussed issues of bilateral and regional interest.
Army chief General Md Abdul Mubeen is set to leave for India on Mar 14 for a five-day tour at the invitation of his Indian counterpart, General Dipak Kapoor.
The government is already taking steps to implement some of the arrangements outlined the Dhaka-Delhi joint communiqué issued during prime minister Sheikh Hasina's recent India visit, finance minister AMA Muhith said Sunday.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday categorically told the Jatiya Sangsad that she did not sign any 'secret deal' with India during her recent visit to the neighbouring country.
Ruling Awami League (AL) yesterday asked leader of the opposition BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia to make it public if she knew anything about secret deals signed during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's last week visit to India.
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will brief the media at the Party's Gulshan office at 3:30pm on Sunday about her party's stand on the outcomes of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's recent visit to India.
Opposition chief Khaleda Zia will brief the media half an hour before prime minister Sheikh Hasina addresses a news conference on Saturday on her recent trip to India.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wednesday returned home from India boasting cent-percent success of her Delhi mission as she said a new horizon of friendship and economic development now opened up through accords on many major matters.
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina, on the last day of her India visit, indicated that Dhaka and New Delhi were mulling a formal extradition treaty. "We have signed three agreements (on combating crime). Side by side, discussions are being held on an extradition treaty," she told a news-conference in New Delhi as her four-day tour of India drew to a close.
BNP Secretary General Khandaker Delwar Hossain on Wednesday said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s visit to India proved the present government was prepared to give everything to India. “What have we got? Everything has been given to India,” he said while talking about Chittagong and Mongla ports to be used by India.
