Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Friday with the leader of neighboring Bangladesh, the first such meeting since a revolution in Dhaka ousted New Delhi’s long-term ally and soured relations.<\/p>\n
Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, 84, took charge of Bangladesh in August 2024 after India’s old ally Sheikh Hasina was toppled as prime minister by a student-led uprising and fled by helicopter to India.<\/p>\n
India was the biggest benefactor of Hasina’s government, and her overthrow sent cross-border relations into a tailspin, culminating in Yunus choosing to make his first state visit last month to China — India’s biggest rival.<\/p>\n
Tensions between India and Bangladesh have prompted a number of tit-for-tat barbs between senior figures from both governments.<\/p>\n
New Delhi has in the past has repeatedly accused Muslim-majority Bangladesh of failing to adequately protect its minority Hindu citizens — charges denied by the caretaker administration of Yunus.<\/p>\n
On Friday, Yunus posted a picture on social media showing him shaking hands with Modi, and his press secretary Shafiqul Alam later said the “meeting was constructive, productive, and fruitful”.<\/p>\n
Their meeting took place on the sidelines of a regional summit in Thailand.<\/p>\n
Yunus also shared a photograph of the two men smiling as he handed Modi a framed picture of themselves a decade ago — when the Indian leader in 2015 honored the micro-finance pioneer with a gold medal for this work supporting the poorest of society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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