India, April 4 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday urged Bangladesh chief advisor Muhammad Yunus to avoid any inflammatory rhetoric and instead focus on building a constructive and pragmatic relationship with India, the Ministry of External Affairs said.

In his first talks with Bangladesh's chief advisor Muhammad Yunus, PM Modi said "that any rhetoric that vitiates the environment is best avoided". The Prime Minister said that such an approach would help both nations.

Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel Peace Prize winner who took over as the chief adviser of an interim government in Dhaka after Hasina's exit, met Modi on the sidelines of the BIMSTEC summit in Bangkok.

As per the statement released after their conversation, the Prime Ministe...