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Agartala-Dhaka road link okayed

CARTAGENA (Colombia), April 9 (PTI) — India and Bangladesh today agreed to start a new bus link between Agartala and Dhaka, the second between the two neighbours after the Calcutta-Dhaka service.

A decision to this effect was taken during a bilateral meeting External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh had with his Bangladesh counterpart Abdus Samad Azad on the sidelights of the Non-Aligned Foreign Ministerial conference here.

The two ministers were of the view that only a minor problem over a small stretch of road needed to be ironed out for the Agartala-Dhaka bus service to be operationalised.

Mr Jaswant Singh also agreed with the Azad that the Petrapole-Benapole rail service between the two countries also needed to be expedited, an Indian official said.