The home secretaries, Omar Farooq of Bangladesh and Dhirendra Singh of India, led their respective delegations in discussing a range of issues centring on security along the 4,156-kilometre border shared by the two neighbours.

The meeting yesterday did not reach any specific decision on a proposal for joint security operations along the border that India had been pushing for some years, sources said.

Yesterday Dhaka sought immediate Indian measures against anti-Bangladesh elements, including some notorious criminals, currently in Indian territories, they added.

In reply, the 12-member delegation from Delhi stressed that signing of an extradition treaty would be needed between the two countries for the return of anti-Bangladesh individuals or groups currently on Indian soil.

Delhi also presented a detailed list of some 195 Indian insurgent camps that it claimed were in Bangladesh and specific information on them to Bangladeshi delegates. Dhaka however denied knowledge of any such camp but said it would look further into the matter, sources said.

Bangladesh also reiterated its wishes for India to ratify the 1974 Border Demarcation and Land Boundary Accord, also known as the Mujib-Indira agreement, nearly three decades after it's signing.

State news agency BSS reported that Dhaka asked Delhi to hand over 10,000 acres of land on the basis of the 1974 treaty. Currently, Bangladesh has 51 enclaves in India with a total area of 7,110 acres, while there are 111 Indian enclaves in Bangladesh covering 17,158 acres of land.

India possesses 3,506 acres of Bangladeshi land while 3,024 acres of Indian land is in Bangladesh's possession, with 6.5km out of the 4,156km border remains un-demarcated.

Emerging from the meeting at the Home Ministry in the Secretariat, both the heads of delegations refused to share any details with reporters, but said all issues were discussed in a congenial atmosphere.

"We have discussed all issues, including those of border and security, and the discussions were very fruitful," Farooq told the newsmen.

Yesterday the Indian home secretary also made courtesy calls to both Foreign Minister M Morshed Khan and State Minister for Home Affairs Lutfuzzaman Babar.

After the meeting with the foreign minister, Dhirendra said, "Surely, we're coming closer to resolving all issues."

The secretary-level talks are scheduled to end today, after which the two sides would hold a joint press briefing at the home ministry.