Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi at about 12:00noon to pay tribute to the martyrs of Liberation War and Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Earlier, Modi visited the National Martyrs Memorial at Savar at about 11:30am. He placed wreaths at the altar of the memorial.
Modi arrived at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at about 10:15am on a two-day visit to Bangladesh to hold talks with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
After paying tributes to the war heroes, Modi started for Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi-32 in Dhaka where he will lay wreaths at the portrait of Bangladesh's Founding Father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Earlier, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reached in Dhaka on Saturday morning on his two-day state visit at the invitation of his Bangladesh counterpart Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
This is Modi's first visit to Bangladesh since his swearing-in as Indian PM.
The Indian Prime Minister said in a Facebook status on Thursday that the relationship between Bangladesh and India are very strong and that he would undertake the visit with a great sense of enthusiasm and delight. “I am certain my visit will be beneficial for the people of both our nations and in the larger good of the South Asian neighbourhood,” he wrote. At a press briefing organised on the visit at the foreign ministry yesterday,
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