{"id":300801,"date":"2018-07-26T06:58:58","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T06:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=300801"},"modified":"2018-07-26T06:58:58","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T06:58:58","slug":"pm-modi-to-address-10th-brics-summit-in-south-africa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pm-modi-to-address-10th-brics-summit-in-south-africa-today\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi to address 10th BRICS Summit in South Africa today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-299861 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Narendra-Modi-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"482\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/Narendra-Modi-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/Narendra-Modi-324x235.jpg 324w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/Narendra-Modi-581x420.jpg 581w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/Narendra-Modi.jpg 591w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 482px) 100vw, 482px\" \/>Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on July 26 address the 10th BRICS Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa at around\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_177051121\"><span class=\"aQJ\">11:00 to 12:00<\/span><\/span>\u00a0local time. The theme of this year&#8217;s summit is, &#8216;BRICS in Africa &#8211; collaboration for inclusive growth and shared prosperity in the 4th industrial revolution&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Indian PM will also attend the 10th BRICS Summit and related meetings in Johannesburg and several bilateral meetings on the sidelines,&#8221; Raveesh Kumar, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sources revealed India will also raise Triple &#8220;TTT&#8221; (Trade, Talks and Terrorism) during the summit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The three-day summit began on July 25, with the BRICS Business Forum Meet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;This year marks the decade of co-operation between BRICS nations. The grouping has achieved lot like the formation of the New Development Bank which fills a critical gap in project funding,&#8221; South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in his keynote address said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">PM Modi besides attending the summit, will also hold bilateral meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This is the first time when BRICS leaders&#8217; retreat is being organised wherein the leaders will deliberate and take stock of BRICS co-operation during the decade and on its future prospects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">India is likely to sign MoUs with South Africa in the fields of skill, education, health and agriculture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">BRICS stand for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on July 26 address the 10th BRICS Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa at around\u00a011:00 to 12:00\u00a0local time. The theme of this year&#8217;s summit is, &#8216;BRICS in Africa &#8211; collaboration for inclusive growth and shared prosperity in the 4th industrial revolution&#8217;. &#8220;Indian PM will also attend the 10th BRICS Summit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":299861,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[3863,316,2000],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300801"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300802,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300801\/revisions\/300802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}