(Reuters) -Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva spoke by phone on Thursday, Modi's office said in a statement, a day after the Brazilian leader said he would initiate a conversation among the BRICS group on tackling U.

In a significant diplomatic move amid escalating US tariff tensions under President Donald Trump, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva engaged in an hour-long telephone conversation on Thursday (7 August).

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Thursday agreed to enhance cooperation in trade, technology, energy, defence, agriculture, health and people-to-people ties,