Dollar Challenge or New Path? India Proposes Linking BRICS Digital Currencies
India is exploring ways to connect BRICS member countries’ central bank digital currencies to ease cross-border payments and reduce reliance on the US dollar.
Modi-Putin Talks: Why Russia Wants a Stronger BRICS and Where India Fits in the New Global Power Game
The Modi-Putin meeting ahead of the BRICS summit highlighted Russia’s push for a stronger bloc and India’s balancing act between BRICS and Western partners.
Friends, foes, and Trump factor: India’s big BRICS balancing act
As India chairs the BRICS Summit, it must manage tensions among members and avoid friction with the United States while seeking a consensus declaration.
At BRICS, the value of keeping difficult conversations alive
An editorial on the 18th BRICS Summit argues that India should help make the expanded forum more useful through practical collaboration and difficult conversations, rather than framing it as anti-Western.
A BRICS primer for the ‘angry uncles’
An opinion column explains India’s BRICS chairmanship, summit themes, and the grouping’s role amid global disruptions and US-Iran tensions.
‘India building economic bridges’: PM Modi hails country’s business push at BRICS forum
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India is reducing trade barriers and expanding business cooperation under its BRICS chairship, citing new BRICS networks and India’s economic resilience.
Dilma Rousseff Highlights Russia’s Strategic Role in BRICS Bank
NDB President Dilma Rousseff said Russia’s participation in the New Development Bank is important for strengthening the Global South and BRICS.
BRICS+ and mass mobility as lodestar for EV policy
As leaders gather for the 18th BRICS summit in Delhi, the article argues that BRICS+ countries can strengthen energy security by directing EV policy toward widely used public and shared mobility modes.
BRICS success leans on money and its mundane processes
India’s BRICS summit and the concurrent iBRICS meeting highlight payment infrastructure, local-currency settlement and development finance as the bloc’s practical agenda.