PM returns home

Staff Correspondent: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has returned to Dhaka on Monday evening after completing a four-day official visit to India on an invitation by her counterpart Narendra Modi.

A Biman Bangladesh Airlines VVIP flight carried the prime minister back home along with her entourage members landing at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka at 6.50 pm.

Earlier, Sheikh Hasina left Indian air force's Palam Station for Dhaka at 4.45 pm local time.

Indian State Minister for Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises Babul Supriyo, Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka Harsh Vardhan Shringla and Bangladesh High Commissioner in New Delhi Syed Moazzem Ali saw the premier off at the airport.

During the visit, the prime minister held official talks with Modi and called on Indian President Pranab Mukherjee and Vice-President Hamid Ansari.

All India National Congress President Sonia Gandhi, Indian External Affairs Minister Sushama Swaraj and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Mukherjee called on her.

The tour Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina made to India saw signing of several significant instruments.

Dhaka and New Delhi signed 34 instruments in the forms of agreements, MoUs and bilateral documents after the two premiers' talks at the ball room of the Hyderabad House.

Sheikh Hasina paid homage to Mahatma Gandhi, the preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India, by placing a wreath at his Samadhi in Rajghat.

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