Notably, this was the first the two leaders had met and greeted each other since the standoff between China’s PLA and the Indian forces in eastern Ladakh in April 2020.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, who was host to the recently-concluded 15th BRICS Summit, said their membership would come into effect from January 2024.
Beijing is targeting to induct countries like Saudi Arabia and Indonesia into BRICS, which are relatively agnostic about Chinese ideas of trade and investment.
BRICS is in danger of becoming a vehicle for Chinese diplomatic thrust. This could become tricky territory for India, given its basically adversarial relationship with Beijing.
The meeting, scheduled from 22 to 24 August, is likely to discuss on 40 new countries including Saudi Arabia, Argentina and Egypt who have shown interest in joining the alliance.
Deputy chief of mission at Russian embassy in India Roman Babushkin says BRICS members 'have been taking steps to switch to settlements in national currencies for quite some time now'.
NSA Ajit Doval's remarks in Johannesburg came in backdrop of China blocking India's efforts to list Pakistani/Pakistan-based terrorists under UNSC Consolidated List.
Mamdani’s politics feels unusual compared to India’s current climate. He unapologetically foregrounds Muslim identity at a time when doing so in India invites scrutiny.
On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
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