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Deep Dive
New Delhi, India — 12–13 September 2026 The 18th BRICS Summit was held in New Delhi on 12 and 13 September 2026 under India’s chairmanship, with the theme “Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability.” The summit brought together the expanded BRICS membership at a time of major economic and geopolitical tensions, including trade restrictions, conflicts in West Asia and…
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A chokepoint is a geographic fact that becomes an economic one only through the balance of payments. The Strait of Hormuz carries a fifth of the world’s oil and gas. India imports more than 88 per cent of the crude it uses, about half of that through Hormuz, and roughly 60 per cent of its LPG. When the strait is…
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When a national statistics office changes the year it measures growth against, it changes every comparison that runs across the change. This is normal, necessary and periodically disruptive. India’s national accounts were rebased to 2022-23, and in the days after the June-quarter release on 31 August 2026, the disruption arrived. The mechanics are worth setting out because the dispute is…
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On 1 July 2026 the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 was repealed and replaced by the Viksit Bharat – Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act, 2025. MGNREGA had run for two decades as the closest thing India had to a universal rural safety net: any rural household could demand work, and the state was legally…
