Indo-Bangla secretary-level meeting begins

The two-day 15th home secretary-level meeting between Bangladesh and India has begun at a capital hotel.

The meeting begun at Hotel Sonargaon around 11:40am on Wednesday.

Bangladesh Home Secretary Mozammel Haque Khan is leading the 13-member Bangladesh delegation and Indian Union Home Secretary Anil Goswami is leading their 12-member team.

On September 4, the two sides will sign an Agreed Minutes of the secretary-level meeting.

The two-day meeting is also scheduled to be held on Thursday.

Earlier on Tuesday, Bangladesh and India agreed to address a number of outstanding issues including transfer of prisoners. The new Indian government is also positive about ratifying Land Boundary Agreement.

Under the Extradition Treaty, Bangladesh have placed requests for a number of Bangladeshi people imprisoned in India including Nur Hossain, prime accused of the Narayanganj seven murders.

India, on the other hand, have also sent some extradition requests of its own.

The two sides have reached an agreement at a meeting of the Bangladesh-India Joint Working Group (JWG) meeting at a city hotel.