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Ukraine criticizes UN Secretary-General for meeting Putin at BRICS summit. Geopolitical tensions and economic partnerships discussed.

Telangana CIO Shanta Thoutam wins World Innovation Award at BRICS Forum. Award for contribution to Sustainable Development Goal-4. Instituted by World Organisation for Development, an international NGO. Dr. Shanta inspired by IT and Industries Minister K.T. Rama Rao. Award dedicated to him. Other nominees from Brazil and Oman.

'This summit will provide a useful opportunity for BRICS to identify future areas of cooperation and review institutional development.' Read further on Dynamite News:

Russia and China will be looking to gain more political and economic ground in the developing world at the Brics summit in South Africa this week – when an expected joint dose of anti-West grumbling may take on a sharper edge as they move to bring Saudi Arabia closer.

Experts say India concerned about expansion and any overt anti-west turn as leaders fly into South Africa

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit South Africa to attend the 15th BRICS Summit from August 22-24, the Ministry of External Affairs announced.

JOHANNESBURG - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said Sunday that next month's BRICS summit, which Vladimir Putin has been invited to attend, will be held in-person despite an arrest warrant on the Russian leader.

Pretoria would be required to arrest Putin if he attended and send him to The Hague for trial on war crimes charges

By Anait Miridzhanian and Carien du Plessis