Iraq crisis: Lessons for India
It’s just been a month and Narendra Modi led NDA government is already confronting impediments on almost all crucial fronts. With the 80 per cent India facing monsoon deficit, terrains …
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China’s Maritime Silk Route: Implications for India
In recent days, China’s proposal for a Maritime Silk Route (MSR) has been a subject of speculation and debate. Beijing’s plan for a maritime infrastructure corridor in the broader Indo-Pacific …
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Modi Mantra: Make BRICS people-centric
It’s time for BRICS to move beyond summits and cement bonds among over three billion people living in the five emerging countries straddling the four continents. India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has rightly underlined the need for making BRICS “people-centric” and forging long-term partnership based on knowledge, skills and innovation.
If the BRICS leaders can think and act imaginatively by linking BRICS with surging dreams and aspirations of over three billion people living in India, China, Russia, Brazil, South Africa, it could be a game-changer in elevating the profile of the grouping and buttress its credentials as the voice of the developing world.
Walking the talk: Indian to be first CEO of BRICS Bank, Shanghai will host NDB
Don’t write off BRICS; bank on BRICS. The journey that started in Delhi two years ago culminated in the Brazilian seaside resort town of Fortaleza July 15, with the formal launch of a BRICS-patented New Development Bank that seeks to provide an alternative source of infrastructure finance to emerging economies and the larger developing world.
In a pithy and eloquent speech at the plenary session of the BRICS summit at the Ceara Convention Centre in Fortaleza, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi encapsulated the spirit and essence of the BRICS Bank. “The vision of a New Development Bank, at the Delhi Summit two years ago, has been translated into a reality, in Fortaleza. It will benefit BRICS nations, but will also support other developing nations. And, it will be rooted in our own experiences, as developing countries.”
BRICS summit: India pitches for reforms of UN, warns against selective targeting of terror
In his first major foreign policy address after taking charge of the world’s most populous democracy, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi underlined the need for restoring “a climate of pace and stability” in a crisis-ridden world and made a strong pitch for the reform of global governance institutions.
In the complex chessboard of global geopolitics, Modi, dressed in a dapper grey bandh-gala suit, looked at ease as he alluded to the traditional Indian ideal of vasundhara kutumbakam and called for the world to unite to collectively face a host of cross-cutting threats and issues, including terrorism, climate change and sustainable development.
Drawing lines in the water
An international tribunal’s award last week on the maritime territorial dispute between India and Bangladesh and its acceptance by Delhi and Dhaka should set the stage for substantive regional maritime …
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BRICS needs doses of steroids to prosper
The political leaders of BRICS member countries are facing pivotal national moments. Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is simultaneously navigating her socialist and internationalist moment, after a face-off with the Americans …
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Modi-Xi meeting: Mapping ambitious agenda for India-China relations
The maiden meeting between India’s newly-elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping July 14 on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Fortaleza has set the stage for a multi-pronged acceleration of India-China ties in the days to come.
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PM Modi, China’s president hold talks in Brazil
FORTALEZA: India’s newly-elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi looked the picture of poise as he shook hands warmly with Chinese President Xi Jinping before sitting down for wide-ranging talks that mapped …
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India must be inside UN Security Council, BRICS can help: Puri
you can’t have a country of India’s size: 1.2 billion people, a 2 trillion dollar economy, a country of Mahatma Gandhi and with a great story to tell, the world’s largest democracy, in which 660 million people turn out to vote, somewhat raucous sometimes, not be the member of the Security Council as a permanent member.
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