00:00Updates coming in on a meeting that's taken place between Prime Minister Modi and the
00:04Chief Advisor of the Bangladesh government, Mohammad Yunus.
00:08And first picture of a photo that was presented by Mohammad Yunus to Prime Minister Modi.
00:14This was after the bilateral meeting that's taken place in Bangkok.
00:19What exactly is this gift?
00:20Well, it's a photo of Prime Minister Modi presenting a gold medal to Professor Yunus.
00:25Back in 2015, it was at the 102nd Indian Science Congress, when Prime Minister Modi had presented
00:33Mohammad Yunus with a gold medal.
00:35So that memory being, in fact, framed and given by Mohammad Yunus to Prime Minister
00:43Modi as a gift.
00:45First images on your screens on India Today of one of, really, the moments from that bilateral.
00:51All eyes are on this meeting and what really emerged, what were the takeaways, particularly
00:56because we've been seeing quite a bit of tension between India and Bangladesh in the last many
01:00months since Mohammad Yunus took over as the Chief Advisor, essentially caretaker, of the
01:05Bangladesh government.
01:06But in this picture, you can see the two leaders all smiles as Mohammad Yunus presented this
01:12photo to Prime Minister Modi.
01:14This meeting and this bilateral took place in Bangkok on the sidelines of the BIMSTEC
01:19Summit at the request of Mohammad Yunus.
01:22And so you can see him gifting this particular photo to Prime Minister Modi.
01:27It's a photo of Prime Minister Modi back in 2015 presenting a gold medal to Professor
01:32Yunus at the 102nd Indian Science Congress.
01:35But this is the first time the two leaders are meeting in this capacity, in the sense
01:39it's the first meeting after Mohammad Yunus took over as the Chief Advisor of the Bangladesh
01:44government.
01:50This is a photo essentially that Mohammad Yunus has gifted to Prime Minister Modi from
01:53the meeting back in 2015, from 10 years ago.
01:58And obviously with these pictures emerging, there's going to be a lot of talk and scanning
02:02of the body language between the two leaders.
02:05It definitely seems in this particular frame at least that there is some warmth between
02:10India and Bangladesh, which will give signs of hope that we will see ties between India
02:16and Bangladesh progressing.
02:17In the last few months, there's been roadblock after roadblock in ensuring progress really
02:22in relations between India and Bangladesh.
02:24Roadblocks largely put up by the man on your screens, by Mohammad Yunus, with the kind
02:28of provocative statements that he's been making, or for that matter, ignoring repeated requests
02:33from India to ensure that Hindu minorities in Bangladesh are taken care of.
02:38Even most recently, last week, you had a very provocative statement that came in from Mohammad
02:42Yunus when he referred to Northeast as being landlocked, to which of course there was a
02:47sharp rebuttal also from the Indian side.
02:50But these pictures that have come in, is it an indication perhaps that things will get
02:55better between India and Bangladesh?
02:57That most certainly will be the hope, but we will wait for an official communication
03:01from the Indian government on this meeting.
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