Dhaka, Oct. 22 -- Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain said on Tuesday that only one of agreements signed with India during the previous Sheikh Hasina administration had been cancelled, rejecting claims by another government adviser that 10 such deals had been scrapped.

Speaking to reporters at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he said the only cancelled agreement was related to the supply of tugboats by Indian defence contractor Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers (GRSE), and that the cancellation was made "with the consent of both parties."

"Reports claiming the cancellation of 10 agreements and projects with India are incorrect," he said, while declining to comment on why Youth and Sports Adviser Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain had ...