New visa pact, extradition treaty with Bangladesh soon
January 27, 2013  11:46
India is all set to sign a liberalised visa agreement and an extradition treaty with Bangladesh during Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde's two-day visit to Dhaka beginning Monday.

The new visa pact, named revised travel arrangement, will remove restrictions on visit of each other's businesspersons, students, patients, senior citizens above 65 years and children below 12 years on the lines of the liberalised visa regime between India and Pakistan.        

"Both the treaties will be signed during the home minister's visit to Bangladesh," a home ministry official said.
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