BRICS Summit 2024 Live: PM Modi arrives in Kazan, Russia; Bilateral meeting series live updates today https://worldtodaynews24.com/ Prime Minister Modi will hold several bilateral meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the BRICS summit.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today (October 22, 2024) embarked on a two-day visit to Kazan, Russia where he will attend the 16th summit of the BRICS (Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa) grouping.
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List of countries attending the BRICS summit: BRICS stands for Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, the original five members who were large, non-Western economies. BRICS admitted four new members on January 1 this year: Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates.
The organization now represents about half of the world’s population and about a quarter of the world’s economy. Prime Minister Modi’s BRICS is coming.
BRICS is envisioned as a group of non-Western countries that can counter the hegemony of the global North, such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Prime Minister Modi’s BRICS is coming. The BRIC acronym was first used by Goldman Sachs in 2001 in their global economics paper, ‘The World Needs Better Economic BRICs’. The paper estimates that Brazil, Russia, India, and China will be among the world’s largest economies in the next 50 years. Prime Minister Modi’s BRICS is coming.
As a formal grouping, BRIC began in 2006 after the leaders of Russia, India, and China met in St. Petersburg on the sidelines of the G8 Outreach Summit. The grouping was formalized at the first meeting of BRIC foreign ministers. UNGA in New York in 2006. The first BRIC summit was held in Yekaterinburg, Russia in 2009. In 2010, the BRIC Foreign Ministers meeting in New York decided to include South Africa, and accordingly, South Africa attended the third BRICS summit in Sanya, China in 2011. The next wave of expansion came after the summit in South Africa last year. Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) were invited. The above four joined in January this year but Saudi Arabia accepted the invitation but delayed the formal joining. Argentina, whose new president Javier Millei is pro-Western, refused.
Prime Minister Modi’s BRICS is coming.
What is the significance of BRICS Summit 2024? Prime Minister Modi will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin today after the meeting of the two leaders in July. As Russia faces increased pressure from the West, the meetings underscored New Delhi’s importance to traditionally strengthening India-Russia ties. For Putin, the gathering of so many world leaders in Russia is a message to the West that efforts to isolate Moscow amid the Ukraine war have not succeeded. Prime Minister Modi’s BRICS is coming.
Key topics on the agenda include Russian President Putin’s idea to rival SWIFT for the BRICS-led payments system, an international financial network that has cut off Russian banks from 2022, as well as the growing situation in West Asia.
Mr. Modi will hold a series of bilateral meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of BRICS. Prime Minister Modi’s BRICS is coming.
BRICS has emerged as an important platform for discussions, discussions on key global issues: PM Modi
India values close cooperation among the BRICS which has emerged as an important platform for discussion and debate on various important issues related to the global developmental agenda, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said.
Mr. Modi made the comments in a statement before leaving for a two-day visit to the Russian city of Kazan to attend the 16th summit of the BRICS grouping. Prime Minister Modi’s BRICS is coming.
“The expansion of BRICS with the addition of new members last year has added to its inclusiveness and agenda for global good,” he said. Putin has organized the summit to show the West that it cannot keep Russia off the global stage.
Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet China’s Xi Jinping, India’s Narendra Modi, Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Iran’s Masud Pezheshkian this week, defying predictions that the war in Ukraine and international arrest warrants will drive Mr Putin crazy. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has left for Russia on a two-day visit to attend the 16th BRICS Summit in Kazan. On reaching there, the Prime Minister will hold a bilateral meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The summit is being held under the chairmanship of Russia from October 22-24. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping and hold bilateral talks with leaders of BRICS member countries. “The summit, themed ‘Strengthening Multilateralism for Global Development and Security’, will provide an important platform for leaders to discuss key global issues,” the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said. This will be the Prime Minister’s second visit to Russia in 2024 as he will visit Moscow in July to attend the 22nd India-Russia Annual Summit.
Prime Minister Modi’s BRICS is coming.
Congress party released the first list of 21 candidates for the Jharkhand assembly elections. Prominent names in the list include state finance minister Rameshwar Oraon senior party leader Ajay Kumar and Jharkhand health minister Banna Gupta. Rameshwar Oraon will contest from the Lohardaga (ST) seat, Banna Gupta from Jamshedpur West, and Ajay Kumar from Jamshedpur East. Jharkhand will go to polls in two phases counting on November 13 and 20 on November 23 Prime Minister Modi’s BRICS is coming. At least six people were killed in a cylinder blast at a house in Secunderabad’s Ashapuri Colony on Monday, officials said. City Magistrate Bulandshahr Chandra Prakash Paryadarshi said, “Six bodies have been brought to the district hospital for post-mortem, three men and three women. They are victims of the Sikanderabad tragedy. I cannot tell the total number. I am responsible for the casualties. Six bodies have been brought here and to the district hospital. Prime Minister Modi’s BRICS is coming.
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At the student market in Cuttack, potato prices rose by Rs 30 to Rs 50 per kg on Tuesday. Onion prices have increased by Rs 40 to Rs 60 per kg in Odisha’s largest vegetable market. Prime Minister Modi’s BRICS is coming.
Delhi High Court says DU campus still ‘jungle’, asks candidates to remove posters. Prime Minister Modi’s BRICS is coming.
The Delhi High Court said Delhi University campuses are yet to recover from the “electoral excesses” of student unions and posters and graffiti were not removed as it ordered candidates to clean and repaint the premises showing “water”. The bench directed 16 students contesting the Delhi University Students’ Union (DUSU) 2024-25 elections held on September 27 to appear before it on October 28 and explain their conduct.
Modi is also likely to meet Xi. While the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) is yet to confirm the meeting, External Affairs Secretary Vikram Misri on Monday said that Modi is “expected to hold a few bilateral meetings during his visit, which are currently being worked out”. Modi and Xi last met on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in South Africa in August last year. Prime Minister Modi’s BRICS is coming.
“India values close cooperation among BRICS which has emerged as an important platform for dialogue and discussion on global development agenda, reformed multilateralism, climate change, economic cooperation, building resilient supply chains, cultural outreach, and people-related issues. People Connect” last year. The expansion of BRICS to include new members and add to the agenda of global welfare,” PM Modi said in a statement ahead of his visit to Russia. They will all attend a meeting of the BRICS bloc of developing economies in the Russian city of Kazan on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Modi’s BRICS is coming.
The alliance initially included Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa but is rapidly expanding to destabilize the Western-led world order. Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, UnitedArab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia joined in January; Türkiye, Azerbaijan, and Malaysia have formally applied and many others have expressed interest in becoming members. Russian officials are already seeing the meeting as a huge success. Yuri Ushakov, Putin’s foreign policy aide, said 36 countries have confirmed participation and will send more than 20 heads of state. Mr. Putin will hold about 20 bilateral meetings, Mr. Ushakov said, and the summit could become “the biggest foreign policy event ever held” on Russian soil. A day before Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi filed her nomination for the Bhadra Wanad Lok Sabha by-poll, Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said he could not imagine a better representative for the constituency than his sister. Bhadra will submit nominations on Wednesday. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharg, former party chief Sonia Gandhi, and Rahul Gandhi will be present during the submission of papers. Prime Minister Modi’s BRICS is coming. China has confirmed that it has agreed with India to end the standoff between the two armies in eastern Ladakh. China has agreed with India to end the standoff between the two armies in eastern Ladakh. More than a dozen workers were injured in an explosion at an arms factory in Madhya Pradesh. More than a dozen workers were injured in a powerful blast at Ordnance Factory Khamaria in Madhya Pradesh’s Jabalpur district on Tuesday morning, an official said. The blast occurred at 9:45 am while filling explosives in a refilling section of the factory.
Prime Minister Modi’s BRICS is coming.
At the summit, India will seek to enhance trade, security, economic and climate cooperation. Many analysts believe that BRICS has yet to fulfill its potential due to internal differences among members such as the India-China border dispute and not all members harboring Russia and China’s hostility towards the West.
