<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Jatiya Sangsad Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury has said the media can play their roles in promoting the activities that can help further deepen the bilateral relations between Bangladesh and India.</span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">She urged the journalists of both Bangladesh and India to play constructive role in improving Dhaka-Delhi ties.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Speaker was speaking at the inaugural session of a seminar titled “Role of Bangladesh-India Relations: Challenges and Prospects” organised by the Jatiya Press Club.The Speaker inaugurate the session virtually.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Senior journalists from Bangladesh and India attended the seminar.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Speaker Chaudhury said the two countries have addressed many challenges in the past years, including land and maritime boundaries demarcation.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The two countries signed a number of agreements and MoUs on social, economic, maritime and environmental cooperation, she said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Indian Journalists’ Union President Geetartha Pathak said Bangladesh and India share common history and culture.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Though the two countries addressed many problems, some issues like water sharing still need to be addressed.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He said as a lower riparian country, Bangladesh has the right to have equal water sharing of the common rivers but that is not being ensured.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Bangladesh faces immense problems due to flooding that the upper riparian countries India, Nepal or Bhutan do not face, he said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“I hope the journalists of India and Bangladesh can focus on these issues,” he said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Daily Star editor Mahfuz Anam, JPC president Farida Yasmin, its general secretary Elias Khan, Dhaka Union of Journalists (DUJ) president Sohel Haider Chowdhury, among others, spoke. UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>