External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar met Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira in New Delhi on September 11, with the two sides reviewing bilateral relations and discussing ways to strengthen cooperation in trade and investment, defence, energy, agriculture and space.
The scale of BRICS has changed considerably since India last hosted a leaders’ summit. The grouping now consists of 11 members — Brazil, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and the United Arab Emirates. According to the Government of India, these countries together account for about 49.5 per cent of the world’s population, 40 per cent of global GDP and 26 per cent of global trade, giving discussions within BRICS increasing economic and geopolitical weight.
The calf was born on September 11, 2026, at the Academic Dairy Farm after a laboratory-produced Badri embryo was transferred into a Sahiwal recipient cow. The achievement was announced by the government on September 12.
Chara, part of the Bharat Innovates deep-tech cohort, has developed synchronous-reluctance motors ranging from 8 kW to 30 kW using materials that can be sourced domestically, eliminating the need for rare-earth permanent magnets traditionally used in many high-performance electric motors.
Importantly, Kaveri is no longer simply a conceptual roadmap system. QpiAI announced in March 2026 that it had demonstrated a high-speed hardware quantum-error-correction decoder operating alongside its 64-qubit Kaveri processor.
For a country such as India, which is simultaneously expanding its infrastructure, manufacturing capacity, military power, digital economy, scientific institutions and global diplomatic influence, prolonged internal instability can therefore become a strategic vulnerability.
Smart Scope CX is intended to tackle one of the persistent challenges in cervical cancer prevention: bringing screening closer to women who may have limited access to specialist hospitals, laboratories or gynaecologists.
EyeROV has developed a full-stack marine robotics platform spanning remotely operated vehicles, autonomous surface vessels, autonomous underwater systems and artificial-intelligence-based marine data analytics.
The five-member Armenian delegation, led by Major General Alexander Tsakanyan, was given a guided tour of the station’s operational and maintenance facilities, providing the visitors with an opportunity to understand aspects of the Indian Air Force’s operational practices, technical support systems and maintenance infrastructure.
Goyal pointed to India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) as an example of digital public infrastructure that could support greater international payment connectivity. UPI has grown from a domestic instant-payment platform into an increasingly international system and is now operational for payment acceptance or cross-border remittances in 11 countries.
