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Bangladesh’s leader has told a visiting U.N. official that hundreds of thousands of ethnic minority Rohingya refugees living in camps in Bangladesh must return home to Myanmar, where they had fled violent persecution

United Nations rights chief Michelle Bachelet arrived in Bangladesh on Sunday for a four-day visit that will include a trip to squalid camps housing nearly a million Rohingya refugees from Myanmar.

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‘This gift will make the relationship between the countries more sweeter,’ says envoy.

Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina on Saturday inaugurated the 6.15-km road-rail four-lane Padma Bridge, the country's biggest development project since its birth in 1971, that is expected to give the nation's development index a big boost and connect India directly to Dhaka, through road, rail and ports.

Experts say the 6.15km bridge, built at a cost of nearly $4bn, will connect the southwest of the country to Dhaka.

Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has celebrated the opening of the country’s longest bridge, which took eight years to build amid setbacks involving political conflict and corruption allegations

“The Padma bridge will not just help the internal connectivity of Bangladesh but will also improve trade and logistics between India and Bangladesh,” said the Indian mission in a congratulatory message. 

Ready to extend assistance in management of annual flood in neighbouring nation, says External Affairs Minister