External affairs minister S Jaishankar met his Bangladeshi counterpart Touhid Hossain on the margins of a conference in Oman on Sunday and discussed bilateral relations against the backdrop of a sharp downturn in relations between the two sides. External affairs minister S Jaishankar meets Bangladesh foreign affairs adviser, Md Touhid Hossain on the sidelines of the 8th Indian Ocean Conference, in Muscat on Sunday. (ANI) The meeting between the two leaders, who were attending the Indian Ocean Conference in Muscat, marked the first high-level contact between the two sides since foreign secretary Vikram Misri’s visit to Dhaka last December, and came ahead of planned talks between the border guard forces of India and Bangladesh in New Delhi this week. “Met Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain of the Interim Government of Bangladesh. Conversation was focused on our bilateral relationship, as also on BIMSTEC,” Jaishankar said in a post on X. There was no readout from the Indian side on the meeting. Bangladesh’s foreign ministry said in statement that Hossain and Jaishankar discussed “various bilateral issues …