Sheikh Hasina-Narendra Modi meeting today

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will hold a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today (Tuesday) in New Delhi.Sheikh Hasina reached New Delhi on Monday morning on a four-day state visit.

Upgrading defence cooperation, expanding regional connectivity initiatives and establishing stability in South Asia will be the top agendas of the meeting between the two leaders.

Bilateral talks and a one-to-one meeting will be held at the Hyderabad House.

She will be formally received by her Indian counterpart while a ceremonial guard of honour will be accorded to her there.

After holding the bilateral talks, several MoUs (Memorandum of Understandings) are likely to be signed between the two neighbouring countries while a press statement will be issued later.

Sheikh Hasina later will join a luncheon to be hosted in her honour by the Indian premier.

The same day, Sheikh Hasina is expected to have separate courtesy calls on Indian President Droupadi Murmu and Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar.

She is scheduled to pay homage to Mahatma Gandhi at Raj Ghat on September 6.

The next day Minister for Development of North Eastern Region of India G. Kishan Reddy and Nobel laureate Kailash Shatyarthi will make separate calls on her.
She is scheduled to have a call on family members of former Indian president Pranab Mukherjee that day.

The Bangladesh Prime Minister last visited India in 2019.