BGB Director General Major General M Shafeenul Islam and his newly appointed counterpart, BSF’s Rakesh Asthana, will lead their two sides at the conference at BGB’s Pilkhana headquarters in Dhaka. Also read - Border killings continue to rise in 2020In the first 11 days of September, three Bangladeshi nationals were killed in separate incidents at Chapainawabganj, Thakurgaon and Kurigram. In the first eight months of this year, altogether 35 people were killed in border violence along the Indo-Bangla border. Earlier in mid August, Bangladesh Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen and his Indian counterpart Harsh Vardhan Shringla met in Dhaka. The two foreign secretaries focused on the need for border killings to be reduced.

Source: Dhaka Tribune September 12, 2020 14:37 UTC