Four-day 'Border Coordination conference' between Border Security Force and Bangladesh Rifles is beginning in New Delhi today. BSF will be led by its Director General Raman Srivastava, while Major General Mainul Islam is leading the 19-member team of BDR. Sources said that both sides will discuss issues related to cross-border terrorist activities and joint patrolling of the frontiers. The last round of talks between the forces' took place in July last year in Dhaka while in April the BDR delegation visited the country after a savage mutiny at the headquarters of the BDR led to the killing of its chief Major General Shakeel Ahmed. During the last year's meet in the national capital, India assured Bangladesh that any "recalcitrant elements" of the BDR will not be allowed to enter the country and offered all possible help in restructuring of the paramilitary force. BSF and BDR are counterparts along the 4,096-kilometre long India-Bangladesh border.