The bilateral meeting between India's External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Bangladesh Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali has been held on Thursday morning at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the capital.
The meeting began around 10am and ended at 11am, foreign ministry sources said.
According to Indian state-run news agency PTI, Swaraj talked with her Bangladeshi counterpart Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali on key bilateral issues, including Land Boundary Agreement and proposed Teesta river water sharing deal, during which the Indian side also raised the matter of illegal immigration.
Indian media on Wednesday reported that Sushma had called West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and discussed her visit to Bangladesh.
The Indian foreign minister arrived by a special flight in Dhaka on Wednesday night on a three-day goodwill visit at the invitation of her Bangladeshi counterpart.
This is the Sushma's first foreign trip since assuming office last month as the newly-elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi's foreign minister, following Bharatiya Janata Party's landslide victory in the Indian general elections.
“She will also deliver a lecture on Bangladesh-India relationship, arranged by BIISS Thursday night,” a foreign ministry official said.
Sushma is scheduled to call on President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday.
Under the outreach initiative of the BJP government, Sushma will make a courtesy call on BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Friday morning.
The Indian minister will meet opposition leader Rawshan Ershad and two advisers of the prime minister, Gowher Rizvi and Mashiur Rahman, on Friday morning.
An agreement for sharing the waters of the common Teesta River was supposed to be signed during the visit of former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to Dhaka in 2011, but was not inked due to strong resistance from West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
A land boundary agreement was signed in 1974. Bangladesh ratified the treaty the same year, but India is yet to do so.
Former Indian Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid placed a bill in parliament to amend India's constitution to pave the way for the ratification, but it is yet to be passed.