For his two-day visit to Bangladesh, PM Modi also used a new custom-made VVIP aircraft, Boeing's B777 aircraft, for the first time on a foreign journey.
Apart from bilateral talks with Bangladesh PM Hasina, Modi will also attend country's golden jubilee independence celebrations & the birth centenary of Bangabandhu' Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
'We are very willing to be a part of Indo-Pacific relationship,' Gowher Rizvi, international affairs advisor to Bangladesh PM, said at a virtual event hosted by London-based IISS.
Country says a ‘few’ Left-wing and hardline Islamist groups are against Modi’s trip. He will attend independence day and Mujibur Rahman centenary celebrations.
Modi and the heads of state from Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and Maldives will visit Bangladesh next week to attend the golden jubilee celebrations of the country's independence.
Apart from boosting bilateral ties, New Delhi is increasingly looking to embrace Dhaka under the Indo-Pacific initiative to assert greater power in the Bay of Bengal region.
PM Modi inaugurates Rs 133-cr India-Bangladesh Friendship Bridge Tuesday, which will connect landlocked NE with Chittagong port in Bangladesh, unlocking untapped markets.
From fast breeder reactors to accelerator systems, Anil Kakodkar’s 2006 address traced India’s path beyond uranium on Dr Homi Bhabha’s 97th birth anniversary.
WhatsApp privacy policy case is among a string of matters involving practices like restrictive platform rules, pricing & billing policies, reflecting India’s tight scrutiny of market dominance.
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