Hasina returns home after two-day India trip

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has returned home after a two-day visit to India.

Senior Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 26 May 2018, 05:11 PM
Updated : 26 May 2018, 05:11 PM

A VVIP plane of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the prime minister and her entourage reached Dhaka’s Shahjalal International Airport from Kolkata around 10:15pm on Saturday.

Hasina went to India to attend the inauguration of the Bangladesh Building at the Visva-Bharati university and join a special convocation of the Kazi Nazrul University.

After arriving in Kolkata on Friday morning, she travelled to Santiniketan where she and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi attended a convocation of the Visva-Bharati and inaugurated the Bangladesh Bhavana.

The two premiers also held a bilateral meeting.

On Friday afternoon, she visited Thakur Bari, the ancestral home of Rabindranath Tagore.

The prime minister met business leaders of Kolkata and joined a dinner hosted by West Bengal Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi later in the night.

She travelled to Asansol next morning to attend the special convocation of the Kazi Nazrul University.

She also received an honorary D Lit degree at the university.

On her return to Kolkata from Asansol, she visited the Netaji Museum in the afternoon.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who also attended the Visva-Bharati events, paid a courtesy call on Hasina at the Taj Bengal hotel in the evening.  

Besides her sister Sheikh Rehana, Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali, Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid, her advisers HT Imam, Gowher Rizvi, Mashiur Rahman, and Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury, Cultural Affairs Minister Asaduzzaman Noor, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam, State Minister for Vocational and Madrasa Education Kazi Keramat Ali, and top officials of her administration accompanied her during the tour.