"Delighted to welcome H.E. Sheikh Hasina, the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, on her State Visit to India".
The new bus service, which was flagged off from the West Bengal secretariat in Howrah, will ply between Kolkata and Bangladesh capital Dhaka, via Khulna.
India announced a concessional credit line of $4.5 billion for the completion of priority sectors in Bangladesh, and another $500 million for buying military equipment.
India also extended a credit line of U.S. dollars 4.5 billion to Bangladesh to help it to implement development projects. The two leaders signed 22 agreements and witnessed the exchange of four pacts - cooperation in judicial sector, lines of credit, outer space and passenger and cruise services.
Modi said that India always stood for the prosperity of Bangladesh and fruits of cooperation must reach to the people of the two countries. The catchment area in India is higher at 10,155 sq km, compared with Bangladesh's 2004 sq km, making a 50:50 water sharing deal impossible.
This time, during her meeting with Hasina and Modi in New Delhi, she suggested other solutions like sharing the waters of other rivers, like the Torsa, which flows down from Bhutan through West Bengal before entering Bangladesh.
The Prime Minister said the genocide by Pakistan in 1971 was undertaken to wipe out an entire generation of Bangladesh and every person who was proud of the idea of Bangladesh was eliminated. Addressing a joint presser with visiting Bangladeshi Prime Minister, he said that "India liberated Bangladesh from terrorism".
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Hasina said the two countries will jointly produce a documentary on the "1971 War of Liberation of Bangladesh", a move that is likely to irk Pakistan.
On her part, Sheikh Hasina appreciated Modi "for his dynamism and innovative ideas that are not only taking India forward but adding value to our our bilateral relationship".
The Modi government has also promised another 500 MW to Bangladesh - so when Mamata made the offer, Modi asked her to put it in writing.
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday thanked the Indian government for naming a road here after her father and the country's founder, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
"I am also happy to announce a Line of Credit of USA dollars 500 million to support Bangladesh's defence-related procurement". Many Indian soldiers sacrificed their lives...
In 2015, Modi signed a historic land border pact with Dhaka, removing a major irritant and infusing a new warmth between the two countries that share a 4,097 kilo metre-long porous border.
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