DHAKA: Border guards of neighboring Bangladesh and India will sit in a meeting on November 17 to discuss terrorism and border crimes.

The meeting will be held at Tamabil in Sylhet, Zee News reports on Monday.

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Additional Director General (northeastern region) Mohammad Latiful Haider will lead the Bangladesh team while Indian delegation will be led by Meghalaya frontier Inspector General of BSF Sudhesh Kumar.

Senior officials of Bangladesh and India home ministries and narcotics departments will also be present in the meeting.

The issues of arms, drug smuggling, terrorism and circulation of fake currency notes will be discussed in the meeting.

However, quoting an Indian official, the report added that the BGB and BSF troopers are now holding coordinated patrolling along the border and the meeting will discuss about intensifying such joint patrolling in the sensitive and porous borders.

"Bangladesh security forces in the recent past have seized huge fake Indian currencies and arrested a large number of people involved in circulating the fake currencies. We would ask the BGB officials to share the information (with BSF) gathered about the fake currencies and their roots," the Indian official added.

According to him, the BSF will also propose to the BGB to hold mutual cultural and sports events on both sides of the border and adjoining cities and villages as part of the confidence building measures in the meeting.

However, four northeastern Indian states of Tripura, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Assam share a 1,880-km border with Bangladesh.

BDST: 1407 HRS, NOV 11, 2014