PM returns home attending Modi's swearing-in ceremony

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has returned home from New Delhi on Monday (June 10) night after attending the oath-taking ceremony of Narendra Modi as the prime minister of India for a third consecutive term.

A special flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the prime minister and her entourage members landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka at 7.15pm.

The flight earlier departed from Palam Air Force airport in New Delhi at 4.45pm (India time), reports BSS.

Secretary (East) to India’s foreign ministry Jaideep Mazumder, Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka Pranay Verma and Bangladesh High Commissioner in New Delhi Md Mustafizur Rahman saw the premier off at the airport.

Sheikh Hasina went to New Delhi on Saturday to attend the swearing-in ceremony of the cabinet of Modi government at her Indian counterpart's invitation.

During her stay in New Delhi, the Prime Minister held a tete-a-tete (one-to-one meeting) with Narendra Modi at Rashtrapati Bhaban on Sunday evening.

During the meeting, Sheikh Hasina congratulated her Indian counterpart for becoming the prime minister of India for a third consecutive term and invited him to visit Bangladesh at his convenient time.

They also expressed their hopes to further deepen the existing bilateral relations in future.