Modi, Hasina to launch pipeline to export diesel to Bangladesh

NEW DELHI: PM Modi and Sheikh Hasina will virtually inaugurate the cross-border India-Bangladesh friendship pipeline, through which India will export diesel to the neighbouring country on March 18, Bangladesh foreign minister AK Abdul Momen announced on Thursday.
The 130-km pipeline, constructed at a cost of Rs 377 crore, will carry fuel from Assam-based Numaligarh Refinery Ltd's (NRL) marketing terminal at Siliguri in West Bengal to the Parbatipur depot of Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC). PM Modi had agreed to finance this pipeline in 2017.