Obama calls Modi a ‘man of action’

Prime minister Narendra Modi had a brief interaction here tonight with Barack Obama during which the US president called him a ‘man of action’. Modi and Obama met each other for the second time in six weeks at a Gala Dinner in Myanmar capital after the president played host to the prime minister at the White house in Washington in the last week of September. ‘Prez Obama greets PM @narendramodi at Gala dinner - ‘You are a man of action!,’ external affairs ministry spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin tweeted after the dinner.