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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returned home on Saturday night after a two-day state visit to India. He visited New Delhi on Friday at the invitation of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

A Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight carrying the Prime Minister and her entourage left New Delhi’s Palam Airport at 6:20 pm (Bangladesh time) and the flight landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 8:25 pm.

India’s Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Mr. Kirtivardhan Singh and High Commissioner of Bangladesh in India. Mustafizur Rahman bid farewell to the Prime Minister at the airport.

This is the first bilateral visit by a head of government to India since the BJP-led coalition formed the government for the third consecutive term after the Lok Sabha elections. Earlier, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was among the dignitaries invited to Modi’s swearing-in ceremony on June 9.

During the Prime Minister’s visit today, 10 Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) including seven new, three renewed ones were signed to further strengthen the growing relationship between the two neighboring countries.