New Delhi, Aug. 27 -- As trade tensions between the US and India continue to escalate, a German media report has claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not respond to multiple phone calls from the US President Donald Trump during the period. The report, published by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), suggeststhat Washington's typical playbook of pressure and public rhetoric may be falling flat in Delhi.

The article claims that President Trump attempted to contact PM Modi on four separate occasions, reportedly in an effort to press India to halt its purchase of Russian oil and to further open its agricultural markets to US companies. However, Modi is said to have deliberately avoided engaging with Trump, according to the rep...