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BRICS Seeks Greater Emerging-Market Voice at the IMF and World BankInternational Relations BRICS Finance Chiefs Push for Greater Emerging-Economy Voice at IMF and World BankInternational Relations India-Iran Bilateral at BRICS: Freedom of Navigation and the Strait of Hormuz StandoffInternational Relations India-EU Free Trade Agreement Clears Council Hurdle, Nears SignatureEconomics BRICS Finance Track Flags Tariff Risks, Advances Payment-System InteroperabilityEconomics Finance Minister Urges RBI to Advance Digital Rupee Pilots Amid Tokenisation PushEconomics Modi-Xi Bilateral at BRICS Summit: Border Mechanisms and India-China TiesInternational Relations India Pursues Overseas Lithium Blocks in Australia, Chile, Argentina: Critical Mineral Security StrategyEconomics JPC on FCRA Amendment Bill to Meet for the First Time on September 18Polity & Governance Finance Ministry Pushes RBI to Scale Up Digital Rupee Amid Tokenisation PushEconomics India-EU FTA: Commission Seeks Council Mandate for Signature: EU's Three-Institution Approval ProcessEconomics BRICS Finance Ministers Advance Cross-Border Payment and Local-Currency PushEconomics IMF Calls India's 7.8% Q1 GDP Growth Better Than Expected Despite Energy Price ShockEconomics India-EU FTA Moves to Council for Signature After Two-Decade JourneyEconomics India's Forex Reserves Hit Record $785.7 Billion, Now Fourth-Largest GloballyEconomics Gaganyaan's Life Support System: Keeping the Crew Alive in OrbitScience & Technology 18th BRICS Summit: India Hosts World Leaders in New DelhiInternational Relations BRICS Summit in Delhi: The Expanded Bloc's Internal Balancing ActInternational Relations Houthis Complete Takeover of Bab al-Mandab Strait AreaInternational Relations Mapping Agro-Processing Clusters: Rajasthan's Export PushEconomics Retail Inflation Nears 5%: Reading India's CPI TrendEconomics Dedicated Freight Corridors and India's Logistics OverhaulEconomics India-Russia Trade Settlement: From Rupee-Ruble Mechanisms to CBDCsEconomics Putin's Three-Day India Visit: Strategic Autonomy and the Oil Price-Cap QuestionInternational Relations Linking Payment Systems and Local-Currency Trade Among BRICS NationsEconomics UPI as a BRICS Payment-Linkage Model: Digital Public Infrastructure and Rupee TradeEconomics Climate 'Overshoot' Report Warns of Disproportionate Impact on AfricaEnvironment & Ecology Xi Jinping's India Visit: Informal Summit Diplomacy, the SCO Overlap and the Trade Deficit QuestionInternational Relations Global Microplastics Regulation Shifts from Waste Cleanup to Source-Based PreventionEnvironment & Ecology BRICS Explores Deeper Financial Market Links to Expand Local-Currency TradeEconomics BRICS Finance Ministers Flag Unilateral Tariffs and Trade Fragmentation as Global RisksEconomics IMF Flags India's Resilience to Oil Price Shock, Welcomes Stronger Statistical FrameworkEconomics BRICS Summit in New Delhi: What's on the Agenda and How Such Summits Are StructuredInternational Relations 18th BRICS Summit Opens in New Delhi as World Leaders Arrive for Bilateral TalksInternational Relations 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi: India's Fourth Chairship and the Global Governance AgendaInternational Relations India's BRICS Trade in Numbers: Reading the $226 Billion Relationship and Its DeficitEconomics Registered Unrecognised Political Parties: Compliance Gaps and Regulatory OptionsPolity & Governance IMF Backs India's New IIP and PPI Series as Improving GDP Estimation AccuracyEconomics BRICS Summit 2026: The Troika Mechanism and the Newly Expanded Membership Arriving in DelhiInternational Relations BRICS Business Forum 2026: Supply-Chain Resilience and Economic Security FrameworkInternational Relations BRICS Business Forum 2026: Non-Tariff Barriers, Payment Interoperability and Services TradeEconomics States Borrowing Through SPVs: The Off-Budget Route and Fiscal TransparencyEconomics Putin's New Delhi Visit Ahead of BRICS Summit: India-Russia Strategic Partnership AgendaInternational Relations

India-China Special Representatives Mechanism and LAC Management, Ahead of Bilateral TalksInternational Relations Strategic Autonomy in Practice: India's Simultaneous Engagement with China, Russia and the US-Led Trade OrderInternational Relations BRICS at 17: Institutional Mechanisms and Membership Expansion Ahead of the New Delhi SummitInternational Relations India-Azerbaijan Ties and the INSTC's Missing Rail LinkInternational Relations China Confirms Xi Jinping's India Visit After a Seven-Year Gap: Trade Normalisation on the AgendaInternational Relations Tribal Ministry's Stand on Gram Sabha Consent for Forest Diversion Draws ObjectionSocial Issues Xi Jinping's India Visit for BRICS Summit Amid Efforts to Stabilise TiesInternational Relations Putin's India Visit: Russia's Expanded Defence ProposalsInternational Relations BRICS Summit 2026: Attending Leaders and the Grouping's Membership StructureInternational Relations India Calls for Cooperation over Confrontation in Outer SpaceScience & Technology India-Canada CEPA: Trade Deal Targeted for Conclusion by End-2026International Relations India's Strategic Sector Push: Space, Semiconductors, Data Centres and Solar ManufacturingEconomics Ganga Waters Treaty (1996) Nears Expiry: The Renewal QuestionInternational Relations BRICS at 25: From a Goldman Sachs Acronym to a Global South PlatformInternational Relations India-China Diplomatic Thaw vs. Persistent Business SuspicionInternational Relations 18th BRICS Summit Opens in New Delhi: Agenda and Global Governance FocusInternational Relations Xi Jinping's India Visit for BRICS Summit: Where India-China Boundary Diplomacy StandsInternational Relations August 2026 Ties as Joint Hottest Month on Record: Copernicus Confirms 1.5°C BreachEnvironment & Ecology UN Secretary-General to Press Multipolarity and Security Council Reform at BRICS SummitInternational Relations Bamboo Mass Flowering and Die-off Can Trigger Ecological Crisis, Study WarnsEnvironment & Ecology BRICS's Institutional Architecture: NDB, CRA and the Rotating Troika SystemInternational Relations Record ₹2,500 Crore Allocation Under PMMSY for 2026–27: Fisheries and India's Blue Economy PushEconomics Petrochemical Sector Emissions Could Rise 50% by 2050: Facility-Level Study Maps Global HotspotsEnvironment & Ecology FSSAI's Front-of-Pack Warning Labels: Centre's Stand Before the Supreme CourtSocial Issues BRICS 2026 New Delhi Summit: India's Presidency and the Bigger-to-Better QuestionInternational Relations BRICS Summit 2026: Energy Security and De-Dollarization on the New Delhi AgendaInternational Relations India's BRICS Trade Deficit Widens to $226 Billion: Structural Import Dependence Ahead of the SummitEconomics Summit Diplomacy at BRICS 2026: Bilaterals, Multilateral Choreography, and India's Balancing ActInternational Relations 9th ASEAN-India Agriculture Ministerial: Institutional Track of ASEAN-India CooperationInternational Relations Supreme Court Examines Whether a Husband Can Be Tried Despite the Marital Rape ExceptionPolity & Governance BRICS 2026: India's Trade Heft, NDB Stake and the De-Dollarisation PushInternational Relations Cabinet Approves Eight Railway Multi-Tracking Projects Worth ₹20,804 CroreEconomics IAEA Board Reports Iran to UN Security Council: First Referral in Two DecadesInternational Relations Census Confidentiality and the 1951 NRC-NPR Legal FrameworkPolity & Governance BRICS at 20: From a Four-Nation Acronym to an 11-Member, 40%-of-World-GDP BlocInternational Relations Forest Rights Act Under Strain: The Gram Sabha Consent DebateEnvironment & Ecology The 2026 West Asia Conflict and India's Energy Security: Why the Strait of Hormuz Matters for BRICS DiplomacyInternational Relations

DILRMP 3.0 Operational Guidelines: Land Records Enter Phase III of DigitisationPolity & Governance BRICS Common Payments System and India's Data Protection FrameworkEconomics Agrivoltaics Set for a Dedicated Component under PM-KUSUM 2.0Economics Cabinet Approves ₹20,804-crore Railway Multitracking Push Across Nine StatesEconomics Ladakh Offered a Customised Article 371 Framework Instead of Sixth SchedulePolity & Governance PM-KUSUM 2.0 Signalled: Next Phase of the Solar-Agriculture SchemeEconomics Monsoon Deficit Hits 15% Amid El Niño: Pulses and Oilseeds Output at RiskEconomics Government to Consult Farmer Groups on New Seeds Bill Before Introduction in ParliamentEconomics NSA Detention Order Quashed by High Court, Appeal Filed: Preventive Detention Safeguards ExplainedInternal Security Supreme Court to Rule on Constitutional Validity of the Marital Rape ExceptionPolity & Governance 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi: Agenda, Schedule and VenueInternational Relations BRICS Summit: India Widens Outreach to Regional Blocs of the Global SouthInternational Relations China's Grip on India's Electronics Imports: 80%+ Share Across 71 Tariff LinesEconomics India Cites "No Double Taxation" Principle in Welcoming UK Carbon Levy ReliefEconomics Government Explores Ethanol Blending Beyond E20 Through Flex-Fuel VehiclesEconomics Supreme Court Examines Constitutional Validity of the Marital Rape ExceptionPolity & Governance Cabinet Approves ₹10,783 Crore Rail Multi-Tracking Push Across Five StatesEconomics Brent Crude Crosses $100/Barrel: What West Asia Tensions Mean for India's EconomyEconomics UK Recognises India's Carbon Credit Trading Scheme Under Its CBAMEnvironment & Ecology RBI Weighs Gold Tokenisation to Expand the Unified Markets InterfaceEconomics CBRN Reconnaissance Vehicles: India's Armed Forces Strengthen Contamination-Detection CapabilityScience & Technology Nicaragua v. Germany: ICJ Jurisdiction and the Genocide ConventionInternational Relations India-Sri Lanka Defence Cooperation: Bilateral Meeting in ColomboInternational Relations Nicaragua vs Germany at ICJ: Arms Transfers and State ResponsibilityInternational Relations India's Protein Demand to Triple by 2070: A Dairy-and-Pulses-Led Transition, Not the West's Meat ModelEnvironment & Ecology India-US Trade Deal Nears Finalisation; Chile and New Zealand FTAs in FocusEconomics India Expands Defence Cooperation with Sri Lanka: MoUs and Post-Cyclone AssistanceInternational Relations Dedicated Freight Corridors and India's Supply-Chain ShiftEconomics Putin-Modi Meeting: Energy Cooperation and Defence Agenda Ahead of BRICSInternational Relations ESA-ISRO Cooperation: Human Spaceflight, Lunar and Venus MissionsScience & Technology A Bigger BRICS: Growing Economic Weight, Harder ConsensusInternational Relations Modi-Putin Bilateral Meeting Ahead of BRICS Summit: Su-57, Nuclear Energy, Trade on AgendaInternational Relations