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Bharat Express News Network


The encounter between Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping outside of the Johannesburg summit is the center of attention. The two leaders got together on Tuesday at the Leaders' Retreat with other BRICS leaders.

In 2009, when the first BRICS Summit was held, the world was just coming out of a massive financial crisis. At that time, BRICS emerged as a ray of hope for the global economy."

The group of nations known as BRICS — Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa — represents a quarter of the world’s economy.

PM Modi will attend the 15th BRICS Summit in Johannesburg, which gets underway on Tuesday and will culminate on August 24.

This will be the first in-person BRICS Summit after three consecutive years of virtual meetings owing to the Covid-19 pandemic.

According to Forbes India, India's GDP reached the $3.75 trillion (about R71 trillion) milestone this year.

BRICS is an acronym for the grouping of the world’s leading emerging economies, namely Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.

This year's BRICS is under the presidency of South Africa and is organising the first face-to-face summit since 2019 in Johannesburg from August 22-24.

This year’s BRICS is under the presidency of South Africa and is organising the first face-to-face summit since 2019 in Johannesburg from August 22-24.

Contacts between our two civilizations stretch back over two millennia and, in modern times, our ties have been strengthened by shared values of democracy...