India-Bangladesh bonhomie scaled new heights as 2021 marked 50 years of ties

The year began on a promising note as Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina thanked her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi for sending over two million doses of AstraZeneca-Oxford University vaccine Covishield, as a gift. PM Modi visited Bangladesh in March and participated in the golden jubilee of its independence from Pakistan and the birth centenary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.