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India hosts and chairs the BRICS Summit in New Delhi
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India hosts and chairs the BRICS Summit in New Delhi
India is hosting and chairing the BRICS Summit in New Delhi, with a Modi-Putin meeting ahead of it, as the grouping positions itself as a forum for emerging economies.
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India is hosting and chairing the BRICS Summit in New Delhi, with Russian President Vladimir Putin scheduled to hold bilateral talks with the Prime Minister ahead of the meeting.
The Kremlin has described BRICS as a grouping of countries with a shared outlook rather than an anti-Western bloc, and voiced support for a peaceful resolution to the Ukraine conflict.
BRICS began as an informal grouping of major emerging economies and has since admitted new members beyond its five founding states.
Sources: Topper IAS editorial (PIB / The Hindu / Indian Express)
Key facts
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- BRICS
- New Delhi Summit
- emerging economies
- India's foreign policy
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Prelims
- BRICS, New Delhi Summit, emerging economies, India's foreign policy
Mains
Use as an example in GA answers (GS2 - International Relations: BRICS and multilateral groupings).
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ISRO's Gaganyaan mission, for which ESA is providing ground-tracking support under a Technical Implementing Plan, is India's programme for:
- An uncrewed lunar sample-return mission
- A permanent Indian space station to be established by 2030
- India's first human spaceflight to low earth orbit
- A joint Mars orbiter mission with ESA
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Answer: C — Gaganyaan is ISRO's programme to demonstrate India's indigenous capability to send astronauts into low earth orbit, India's first human spaceflight mission.
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