New Delhi, Sept. 10 -- India is hosting the BRICS Summit 2026 in New Delhi this this weekend.

The BRICS Leaders' Summit is scheduled to be held at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi on September 12-13. The official theme for this year is "Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability".

BRICS was formed in 2006 as an informal BRIC alliance comprising four countries - Brazil, Russia, India, and China. Today, BRICS brings together eleven major emerging markets and developing countries worldwide.

The BRICS Summit comes at a challenging moment for India, as the grouping navigates the fallout from the US-Iran war and the wider crisis in the Middle East.

For New Delhi, the immediate challenge will be to strike a delicate dipl...