Hasina phones Nepal PM, pledges all help

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, now in Singapore on a four-day official visit, phoned on Monday her Nepalese counterpart Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli after a tragic US-Bangla plane crash in Kathmandu and assured him of all sorts of assistance from Bangladesh. "The prime minister made the phone call to the Nepalese premier at 7:50 pm Singapore time and expressed profound shock and sorrow at the casualties in the crash," PM's Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim told the news agency from Singapore. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returns home today after cutting short her official visit to Singapore following the US-Bangla plane crash in Nepal on Monday, a press release of the Press Wing of the Prime Minister's Office said in the city. The Prime Minister, who went to Singapore on Sunday, was scheduled to return home on Wednesday. — BSS