New Delhi, Sept. 6 -- Former Ambassador of India to France and Monaco Jawed Ashraf called the recent exchange of positive gestures between US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi a welcome development, reflecting a "lowering of temperature" on the American side.

"I think it is a very welcome development. It reflects, you know, a lowering of temperature on the US side. Of course, you know, President Trump has been and his cabinet colleagues, as well as his advisers, have been using very disparaging tone and some very corrosive language on almost a daily basis, besides the punitive tariffs that they have imposed," Ashraf said in an interview with ANI.

Despite Trump's frequent use of aggressive language, Ashraf noted tha...