News articles and essays on the Indian diplomacy at work around the world.
Modi welcomed Vietnam’s participation in the summit as a BRICS Partner Country, highlighting its growing engagement with the grouping. Vietnam is participating in the BRICS Summit as a partner country for the second time, while this is Le Minh Hung’s first BRICS Summit as Prime Minister.
Yudh Abhyas 2026 also includes the U.S. Army’s 3rd Multi-Domain Task Force, bringing long-range precision fires and integrated command-and-control capabilities into the exercise.
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.
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.
At INNOPROM, SBER is highlighting a cross-border settlement system designed to move payments to India within minutes, together with rupee-denominated services including accounts, deposits, letters of credit and bank guarantees. Its business development arm also assists Russian companies entering India, from identifying suppliers to completing their first commercial transactions.
Modi and Guterres underscored the importance of multipolarity and agreed that multilateral organisations need reform if they are to remain representative and effective.
Modi and Pezeshkian reviewed different aspects of India-Iran relations and exchanged views on cooperation in multilateral forums.
During the meeting, Modi and Putin assessed progress across the principal pillars of the India-Russia relationship, including political engagement, economic cooperation, defence ties, energy security, space collaboration and skilled-mobility initiatives.
That enlarged grouping will meet in New Delhi for the 18th BRICS Summit on September 12–13, 2026, under India’s chairmanship and the theme “Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability.”
