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PM returns from UK

Star file photo of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Wrapping up her six-day visit to the United Kingdom, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returned home this morning.

A VVIP flight (BG-016) of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the prime minister and her entourage arrived at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 11:45am, Noore Elahi Mina, PM's assistant press secretary, told The Daily Star.

Before her arrival in the capital, Hasina took a stopover at Osmani International Airport in Sylhet where Awami League leaders exchanged greetings with her at the VIP terminal.

Earlier, the VVIP flight carrying Sheikh Hasina and her entourage took off from London's Heathrow International Airport yesterday evening.

Bangladesh High Commissioner to the UK Md Abdul Hannan saw the prime minister off at the airport.

During her stay in the British capital, the prime minister was accorded a civic reception by the UK Chapter AL at the Park LaneHotel on June 14.

She also joined a reception hosted by Chairman of All Party Parliamentary Group on Bangladesh Keith Vaz at the UK Chapter Office of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) in the British Parliament on June 15.

Hasina visited the UK parliament on June 16 and listened to the maiden speech of her niece and Labour Party MP Tulip Rezwana Siddique at the House of Commons.

She also met House of Lords Speaker Baroness D' Souza on the same day.

 

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PM returns from UK

Star file photo of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Wrapping up her six-day visit to the United Kingdom, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returned home this morning.

A VVIP flight (BG-016) of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the prime minister and her entourage arrived at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 11:45am, Noore Elahi Mina, PM's assistant press secretary, told The Daily Star.

Before her arrival in the capital, Hasina took a stopover at Osmani International Airport in Sylhet where Awami League leaders exchanged greetings with her at the VIP terminal.

Earlier, the VVIP flight carrying Sheikh Hasina and her entourage took off from London's Heathrow International Airport yesterday evening.

Bangladesh High Commissioner to the UK Md Abdul Hannan saw the prime minister off at the airport.

During her stay in the British capital, the prime minister was accorded a civic reception by the UK Chapter AL at the Park LaneHotel on June 14.

She also joined a reception hosted by Chairman of All Party Parliamentary Group on Bangladesh Keith Vaz at the UK Chapter Office of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) in the British Parliament on June 15.

Hasina visited the UK parliament on June 16 and listened to the maiden speech of her niece and Labour Party MP Tulip Rezwana Siddique at the House of Commons.

She also met House of Lords Speaker Baroness D' Souza on the same day.

 

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