India, China Reach Agreement On Disengagement, Border Patrolling

Prime Minister Modi will attend the BRICS summit in the Russian city of Kazan this week. He will pay a two-day visit to Kazan beginning Tuesday to attend the BRICS summit following an invitation by Russian President Vladimir Putin. On Friday, Russian Ambassador to India Denis Alipov said new members are expected to join BRICS and that this expansion would solidify the grouping as a significant platform for advancing the Global South’s interests. He said this during an online conference ‘BRICS 2.0: New Members, New Horizons’, ahead of the BRICS summit next week in Kazan, Russia. Russia is currently the Chair of BRICS, an important grouping that brings together major emerging economies of the world. It started as BRIC with four countries – Brazil, Russia, India and China, with South Africa joining the bloc in 2010, thus it later assumed the nomenclature of BRICS.