Senior Bangladeshi and Indian home ministry officials began the Joint Working Group talks on frontier issues on Tuesday in Dhaka.
The joint working group meeting, which is a day ahead of the start of a two-day secretary level meeting between the two sides, is expected to focus discussions on three major issues of frontier situation, cross-border security and means to develop bilateral ties, joint secretary of the Bangladeshi home ministry Kamaluddin Ahmed, who led the 11-member Bangladeshi delegation at the talks, said Tuesday.
A 10-member Indian team was headed by Indian home office joint secretary Shambhu Singh.
The joint working group meeting starts two days after Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka Rajeet Mitter was summoned by the foreign ministry to lodge a protest against the "brutal and senseless" killing of a 15-year-old Bangladeshi girl by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) earlier this month as she was trying to return home from India, where she was working.