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Topic: BRICS

A BRICS currency can weaken US hold over emerging economies. India needs to decide its role

Before de-dollarisation of BRICS can occur, India must secure a place in IMF's basket of world currencies, where Chinese Renminbi is already included.

BRICS foreign ministers’ meeting starts in Cape Town today, local currency trade likely on agenda

China may also push its 12-point peace plan for Ukraine at 2-day meeting, which will set stage for 15th BRICS summit in August.

SCO, BRICS, RIC: What do they have in common? China at head of table, India faking smiles

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) foreign ministers’ meeting in Goa has produced the usual photo-ops and probably even some important outcomes in back-room conversations....

Led by China, India, the 5 BRICS nations now contribute more to world GDP than industrialised G7

BRICS countries overtook G7 in 2020 by making up a larger share of global GDP in PPP terms, with China & India respectively in second and third positions globally that year.

India is at frontline in US-China bipolar contest. It can’t afford to choose wrong partners

India has made itself vulnerable with its overwhelming dependence on Moscow for arms despite all talks about non-alignment.

G20 fault lines making it hard to walk its talk. India’s presidency a chance to plug gaps

G20 meetings are more important for their sidelines than their outcomes. One sideline will be the first in-person meeting of UK PM Rishi Sunak and PM Modi.

Why Modi is catching a plane to Samarkand. Xi is slowly falling in line on LAC

For Modi to be absent again – as the standoff on the LAC continued into the second year – would have been a diplomatic slap on Xi Jinping’s face.

BRICS has no place for anti-West agenda. India must not let China hijack it

Any attempt to convert BRICS into a soft power tool and strategise to make it a security and foreign policy group will weaken its trade aspects.

Chinese officials will have a secret meeting with Xi. The big problem? Tesla cars on street

BRICS summit was an opportunity for China to present its accommodating side, but Xi Jinping pushed his rhetoric on countering the ‘Western-led international order’.

BRICS supports Russia-Ukraine talks at 14th Summit, Putin says ‘joint efforts’ answer to conflict

The 14th BRICS Summit was held virtually Thursday. This was Putin's first forum with the heads of major economies since launching the Ukraine invasion.

On Camera

In Great Game for Kabul, India plays a patient hand. Multi-alignment to compartmentalisation

Pakistan’s reported air strikes on Kabul last night, coinciding with Acting Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi’s visit to India, seem intended to send...

Niti Aayog recommends fully decriminalising 12 offences under new I-T Act to ‘foster more trust’

Recommendations appear in Niti Aayog’s Tax Policy Working Paper Series–II. It says there is a need to shift away from fear-based enforcement to trust-based governance.

India, UK sign £350 mn deal for Martlet. What are these Lightweight Multirole Missiles

In service with the British military since 2019, it is also known as the Martlet missile. Ukrainians have also deployed these missiles against Russian troops.

CJI, IPS, IAS & Homebound: A wake-up call 75 years in the making

Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.