India’s Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri will visit Bangladesh on December 9. He will meet his counterpart and other officials. This visit follows increased violence against Hindus in Bangladesh. Bangladesh recently recalled diplomats from India. An Iskcon priest was arrested. A bus was attacked. Protesters entered the Bangladesh Assistant High Commission in Agartala.

The chief minister also kept to himself the departments of Cabinet Secretariat, Personnel, Administrative Reforms and Official Language, Road Construction, Building Construction, and those departments yet to be distributed to anyone.

Jaishankar emphasised that India under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is no longer what it used to be on the defence matters.