PM goes to Delhi today

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Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina will fly for New Delhi today (Sunday) on a four-day official visit to India, amid high hopes for a breakthrough in decades of bipartite negotiations for resolving the longstanding issues between the two neighbours, reports UNB.
A special flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the Prime Minister and her entourage will take off from Dhaka international airport at 6pm and land at Palam Air Force Base at 8pm (local time).
She will stay at Hotel ITC Maurya during her days in the Indian capital on her high-profile maiden visit to India after becoming PM.
Hasina will hold official talks with her Indian counterpart, Dr Manmohan Singh, at 5:30 pm Monday at Hyderabad House when several agreements or memorandums of understanding (MOU) are expected to be signed.
Beforehand, in the morning, the Prime Minister will be given a ceremonial recep -tion at the forecourt of Rashtrapati Bhaban, while she will pay tribute to Gandhi Samadhi at Rajghat.
She is scheduled to meet Indian President Pratibha Devisingh Patil at Rashtrapati Bhaban at 12 noon on the day.
Also on Monday, Hasina, also the president of the ruling Awami League, will have bilateral talks with Congress President Sonia Gandhi at 10 Janapath and with Indian Leader of the Opposition Sushma Swaraj, Indian Foreign Minister SM Krishna and Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee at her hotel suite.
On Tuesday, Sheikh Hasina will be officially awarded Indira Gandhi Peace Award at a ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhaban.
She will have bilateral talks with Indian Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee at her hotel the same day.
Besides, the Prime Minister will place floral wreaths at Shakti Sthal, the cremation ground of India's first and only woman Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, and at Vir Bhumi, the cremation ground of her son Rajiv Gandhi.
She is also scheduled to have interaction with Indian businessmen and journalists on the day.
On Wednesday, the Prime Minister will take her breakfast with media men and at 10 am fly for Jaipur by a special aircraft to visit Ajmer Sharif, the shrine of great Muslim saint Khwaza Mainuddin Chisti (Rm).
She will fly back for home from Jaipur Airport by the flight BG 1096 at 3pm (local time) and arrive in Dhaka at Bangladesh time 5:50pm.