SME Times News Bureau | 06 Jun, 2015
India and Bangladesh on Saturday ratified the
Land Boundary Agreement here as India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his
Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina presided over the ceremony of exchange of
instruments of ratification of the land swap.
"History is made as the Instruments of Ratification of the Land Boundary
Agreement are exchanged," Modi tweeted.
Earlier on the day, Modi, his Bangladeshi
copunterpart Sheikh Hasina and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamta Banerjee had also flagged off the Kolkata-Dhaka-Agartala and Dhaka-Shillong-Guwahati bus
services.
"Connecting lands, binding hearts. PM @narendramodi and PM Sheikh Hasina
flag off buses to Guwahati and Agartala," Vikas Swarup, spokesperson of
the external affairs ministry spokesman, tweeted.
Prior to flagging of the services, the three leaders boarded the buses and
greeted the passengers.
The Kolkata-Dhaka-Agartala service will reduce the travel time between the
capitals of India's West Bengal and Tripura states by one-third
Modi reached Bangladesh earlier in the day on a two-day visit. He was received
by Hasina at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport here.
Upon his arrival, he visited the National Martyrs' Memorial to pay tribute to
the soldiers who died in the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971.
In his second engagement of the day here, Modi visited the Bangabandhu Memorial
Museum to pay tribute to the founder of Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.