Context
The Supreme Court of India hosted the BRICS Chief Justices’ Forum from 4 to 6 September 2026 in New Delhi, as part of India’s 2026 BRICS Presidency.
Other BRICS Events Under India’s 2026 Presidency
- 14th BRICS Science Ministerial Meeting — Chennai, Tamil Nadu; chaired by Dr Jitendra Singh, MoS (IC), Ministry of Science and Technology
- BRICS Sports Ministers’ Meeting — Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh; chaired by Dr Mansukh Mandaviya, Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports
- BRICS Friendship Cycling Event — Visakhapatnam; led by Dr Mansukh Mandaviya and MoS Raksha Khadse
- 8th BRICS Working Group Meeting on Ocean and Polar Science and Technology (OPST) — Goa; organised by the Ministry of Earth Sciences
- 18th BRICS Academic Forum — Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh; theme “Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability”
Important Facts for Exams
- India holds the BRICS Presidency in 2026; China takes over in 2027
- The 18th BRICS Summit is to be held in New Delhi
- Chief Justice of India: Surya Kant
- Event venues to remember: Chief Justices’ Forum — New Delhi; Science Ministerial — Chennai; Sports Ministers’ Meeting and Friendship Cycling — Visakhapatnam; Ocean and Polar Science WG — Goa; Academic Forum — Lucknow
- Academic Forum theme: “Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability”
- BRICS — proposed as a concept by Jim O’Neill (Goldman Sachs, 2001); first summit Yekaterinburg, 2009; South Africa joined 2010
- Now a 10-member grouping after expansion — original five plus Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, UAE and Indonesia
- New Development Bank — headquartered at Shanghai; proposed by India at the 4th BRICS Summit, New Delhi, 2012; signed at Fortaleza, 2014
- Contingent Reserve Arrangement — $100 billion
- BRICS accounts for nearly half the world’s population, about 30 per cent of global GDP, and about 20 per cent of global trade
- India has hosted BRICS summits in 2012, 2016 and 2021
