Indian FS Shringla due today

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UNB, Dhaka :
Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla arrives here on Monday morning to finalise things ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit this month.
Shringla will meet Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen and Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen Momen on Monday. This will be Shringla’s first visit to Bangladesh as the Indian Foreign Secretary. The Indian Foreign Secretary will also deliver keynote speech at a seminar to be held in a city hotel on Monday. Bangladesh
 Institute of International and Strategic Studies (BIISS) and Indian High Commission in Dhaka will jointly organise a seminar titled “Bangladesh and India: A Promising Future.”
Prime Minister’s International Affairs Adviser Dr Gowher Rizvi will address the seminar as the chief guest.
BIISS Chairman Ambassador M Fazlul Karim, BIISS acting Director General Colonel Sheikh Masud Ahmed, Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Riva Ganguly Das and Distinguished Fellow, CPD Dr Mustafizur Rahman will attend the seminar, among others. Shringla will leave Dhaka on Tuesday morning, an official told UNB. The two countries are working on the programmes to be jointly inaugurated during the visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Modi will attend the birth centenary celebrations of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and have bilateral talks with his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina.
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