Our Correspondents
As part of his daylong tour of Bangladesh, Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee distributed relief goods among cyclone-hit people at Rayenda in Sharankhola upazila yesterday.
While talking to cross-sections of local people, mostly rendered pauper by the devastating cyclone, they requested the Indian foreign minister to take steps so essentials could be brought here from his country.
A helicopter of Bangladesh Air Force carrying Mukherjee from the capital, Dhaka, landed at Rayenda helipad at about 3:40pm. [Read more]