The 18th annual BRICS Summit is being held at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, India, from September 12–13, 2026, under India’s fourth chairship of the bloc. Chaired by PM Modi, the two-day high-level meeting focuses on building resilience, innovation, cooperation, and sustainability that together constitute its four pillars.
At a time when global trade tensions are escalating in Taiwan and the AI threat is overshadowing the world, the USA’s tilt in the Eastern Hemisphere points toward China’s growing global impact. The Iran-US war has surely caused a dent in China’s economic progress, but ideologically and politically it has gained an upper hand.
The once wealthy Gulf States with huge oil reserves have turned into nothing but a target for Iranian strikes because of the US military bases they host. The conflict in the Middle East continues to escalate and is getting worse each week after the US and Israel launched wide-ranging strikes on Iran, resulting in the assassination of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, on 28 February.
From February 16 to 20, India hosted the largest AI summit in the world in New Delhi, which drew a thousand delegates, including CEOs of leading AI start-ups and world leaders. The AI Impact Summit 2026 was the fourth consecutive summit in the global series previously held across the world to coordinate global Artificial Intelligence actions.
In the wee hours of January 3rd, 2026, the United States of America launched huge military strike under the operation named “Absolute Resolve” against Venezuela successfully capturing President Nicholas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores. The so-called “successful operation’’ involves months of military deployment in the Venezuelan sea for what the US terms as “counter narcotics” operations.
On February 4, 2026, Sri Lanka celebrated its 78th Independence Day in New Delhi with sombre religious ceremonies, a ceremonial flag raising, and a packed National Day Reception that demonstrated the resurgence of India-Sri Lanka relations.
The world caught a rare glimpse of Ursula von der Leyen, taking a centre stage at Kartavya Path while European Military marched in New Delhi, the capital of India amidst the grandeurs of the Republic Day celebration on January 26, 2026. India warmly welcomed its chief guests António Luís Santos da Costa the President of the European Council and Ursula von der Leyen, European Commission Chief on the occasion of 77th Republic Day in 2026.
India served the warmest welcome to Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin during his visit to India for the 23rd Indian-Russian Annual Summit on December 4 and 5, 2025.
A warm evening of whole-souled storytelling and cultural admiration marked the launch of Around the World in Magnets-Sri-Lanka, a first-of-its kind travelogue by Dr. Anthony Vipin Das and Vidushi Duggal published by Sarasavi Publisher.
Cyprus Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos paid a visit to India for three days from October 29-31st , 2025 to renew India-Cyprus Joint India Plan 2025-2029 which was agreed upon by PM Narendra Modi during his visit to Cyprus in June 2025.
