A gesture of friendship

As a gesture of friendly relations, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has sent one tonne of Amrapali mangoes to Indian President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a gift.

The fruit was sent to the residences of India's president and prime minister through diplomatic channel yesterday, Bangladesh High Commission in New Delhi said in a statement.

Last year, Hasina sent Haribhanga mango, mostly grown in Rangpur, as a gift to Modi and the chief ministers of West Bengal, Tripura and Assam.

The relationship between Bangladesh and India has rendered a new height and the "Mango & Hilsa diplomacy" is making the ties more gratifying, said the statement.

This is the prime season of various fruits in Bangladesh that grows some of the best varieties of mango in the world.

Mangoes were also sent to the dignitaries of other South Asian countries like Bhutan and the Maldives and some Middle Eastern countries last year.