Ahead of the two-day BRICS summit hosted by India, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh traced the grouping’s history, including the first summits, South Africa’s accession, expansion, and the creation of the New Development Bank.
Iran’s BRICS Women Business Alliance chair said support for its delegation in India reflected strong ties, while Tehran hopes the summit will advance trade, women-led business and connectivity cooperation.
The 18th BRICS summit in New Delhi offers India an opportunity to strengthen its global standing, energy security, and economic cooperation through the BRICS mechanism.
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.
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.
India’s agenda for the BRICS summit in New Delhi emphasizes trade facilitation, payment systems, local-currency transactions and supply-chain cooperation, alongside bilateral engagements with member countries.
An analysis of BRICS and G7 strengths in 2026, covering economic scale, energy, trade, institutions and political cohesion.
About 1,000 delegates are expected at BRICS business meetings in Delhi on resilience and innovation ahead of the 18th BRICS Summit under India’s chairship.
