Congress MP Manish Tewari urged BRICS countries to prioritize artificial intelligence and frontier technologies while establishing safeguards to prevent the digital divide from widening.
India prepares to host the BRICS Summit as President Putin arrives for a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Modi ahead of multilateral talks on trade, cooperation, and possible membership expansion.
India’s Supreme Court will close for the 18th BRICS Leaders’ Summit in New Delhi, with a compensatory working day declared.
BRICS is portrayed as a platform for Global South representation through UNSC reform, the New Development Bank, de-dollarisation, and a push for a multipolar international order.
The expanded 11-member BRICS grouping will meet in New Delhi under India’s chairship, with trade, payments, startups, AI, energy, critical minerals, and climate finance expected to shape discussions.
An opinion analysis of the 2026 BRICS Summit in New Delhi, India’s balancing among major powers, and the bloc’s challenges in coordinating policy on climate, technology, security, and institutional development.
India is putting MSME exports at the centre of its BRICS 2026 agenda, seeking wider market access, easier financing and greater use of local currencies as businesses navigate an increasingly fragmented global trade landscape.
India’s BRICS presidency aims to manage internal divisions and deliver practical outcomes across economic, development, and people-centered cooperation.
An IISD analysis says BRICS economies are shifting electric-vehicle support toward public and shared transport to improve affordability, equity and energy security as leaders prepare for a New Delhi meeting.
