Delhi’s test: make BRICS work without making it work against India
Success for India isn’t replacing the West or empowering China – it’s walking away with more strategic choices and leverage.
Success for India isn’t replacing the West or empowering China – it’s walking away with more strategic choices and leverage.
India is expected to raise market access and trade deficit issues with BRICS partners at the upcoming summit.
India’s hosting of a BRICS working group on ocean and polar science highlights the bloc’s niche as a mechanism for scientific cooperation rather than Arctic governance.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa will attend the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi, prioritizing intra-BRICS trade, investment, and cooperation.
An article argues that India’s 2026 BRICS chairship can strengthen people-to-people ties through cultural cooperation, institutional funding, tourism, and digital heritage initiatives.
Brahma Chellaney applauds the group’s efforts to advance an institutional order fit for a multipolar world.
New Delhi DCP Sachin Sharma said the district has made elaborate law-and-order, security, and anti-terror arrangements ahead of the BRICS Leaders’ Summit 2026.
The upcoming BRICS summit in New Delhi is described as potentially one of the bloc’s most important meetings as BRICS shifts from expansion toward consolidation.
As India prepares to host the 18th BRICS Summit, a foreign affairs expert said New Delhi is pushing a decentralised development agenda focused on agriculture, startups, climate finance and AI.