New Delhi, April 8 -- Bangladesh foreign minister Khalilur Rahman sought increased diesel and fertilizer supplies from India amid the global supply squeeze, during a meeting with petroleum and natural gas minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Wednesday.

India is a major energy exporter to its eastern neighbour and supplies diesel through the India-Bangladesh Friendship pipeline. Last month, India supplied 5,000 tonnes of diesel under an agreement.

Bangladesh foreign minister Khalilur Rahman, who is on a three-day visit to India from Tuesday, met external affairs minister S. Jaishankar and Puri in New Delhi on Wednesday. Bangladesh prime minister's advisor for foreign affairs Humaiun Kobir and Bangladesh high commissioner to India Riaz Hamidull...