PM Modi receives Brazil’s highest civilian honour

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was accorded the highest civilian honour of Brazil by Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Tuesday. President Lula conferred Brazil’s highest civilian honour, the ‘Grand Collar of the National Order of the Southern Cross’, on Modi.

This is the 26th international honour bestowed upon Modi. Then they will hold bilateral discussions on broadening the Strategic Partnership between the two countries in areas of mutual interest, including trade, defence, energy, space, technology, agriculture, health, and people-to-people linkages.