Bangladesh Army’s top military intelligence official, Major General Mohammad Kaiser Rashid Chowdhury, recently made a quiet visit to New Delhi and met Research & Analysis Wing (R&AW) chief Parag Jain and the Director General of Military Intelligence, Lt Gen RS Raman.Top sources confirmed the visit and the meetings to The Tribune. The engagements were kept under wraps and are being seen as a step towards normalisation of ties between India and Bangladesh following the swearing-in of Bangladesh’s new Prime Minister Tarique Rahman on February 17.Maj Gen Chowdhury, who was appointed Director General of the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence on February 23, was officially in India for a medical check-up. During the visit, he met Jain and Lt Gen Raman, along with a few other officials. Sources said an understanding was reached to ensure that neither country was used by individuals whose activities are “inimical to the other”.The visit is significant as Chowdhury’s appointment as DGFI chief was part of Rahman’s shake-up of the Bangladeshi armed forces. It has also opened channels at the operational level between the security establishments of both countries. Over the past 18 months since the ouster of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in August 2024, interactions between the two countries had largely been routed through the offices of the National Security Advisers.Khalilur Rahman, a former National Security Adviser, continues to serve in Rahman’s cabinet as Foreign Minister. Rahman remained in touch with India’s NSA Ajit Doval throughout last year, even as political and economic ties between New Delhi and Dhaka strained under the interim regime led by Muhammad Yunus.New Delhi has also expressed concerns over violence in Bangladesh and its potential impact on peace and stability in India’s northeastern states.External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met Rahman on December 31, 2025, in Dhaka while delivering a condolence message from New Delhi following the death of Rahman’s mother, former Bangladesh PM Khaleda Zia.Earlier, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and India’s Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri attended Rahman’s inauguration last month. India continues to host Hasina, who was sentenced to death in absentia over the actions taken by her government to suppress student-led demonstrations between June and August 2024.Meanwhile, negotiations over the India-Bangladesh Ganges Water Treaty, which is set to expire in December 2026, are expected to come up in bilateral discussions.