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Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri will go on a one-day visit to Bangladesh today. During his visit, Misri will hold extensive talks with his Bangladeshi counterpart, Mohammad Jashimuddin. He will raise India's concerns about attacks on Hindus and other minorities before the authorities in Dhaka. Misri is also scheduled to meet Bangladesh's Acting Foreign Minister Mohammad Touhid Hossain.

During his 12-hour trip, Misri may also meet the head of Bangladesh's interim government, Mohammad Yunus. This will be the first high-level visit from India since Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's government was ousted in August.

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Ahead of Misri's potential meeting with Yunus, Mark Malloch Brown, former president of the Open Society Foundation, an organisation founded by anti-Modi government financier and one of the wealthiest people in the world, George Soros, met Yunus in Dhaka on Sunday.

Sources, cited by Jagran.com, have indicated that during Misri's visit, Bangladesh may express its concerns over India granting asylum to Hasina. Following large-scale anti-government protests in August, Hasina was forced to leave the country, which led to a strain in relations between India and Bangladesh. A few days after Hasina sought asylum in India, Yunus took charge of the interim government.

In recent weeks, relations between the two countries have become even more strained due to attacks on Hindus in Bangladesh and the arrest of Hindu saint Chinmoy Krishna Das. There have been incidents of violence against Hindus and other minorities, as well as attacks on temples, which have raised deep concerns in India.

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Amid the increasing atrocities against Hindus in Bangladesh, the All Tripura Hotel and Restaurant Owners Association has decided to stop providing hotel and restaurant services to Bangladeshi citizens. The Germany-based Hindu organization, Deutschland Hinduistische Verband, expressed deep concern over the ongoing atrocities against Hindus and other minorities in Bangladesh and called for global attention to the issue.