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Chennai hosts BRICS science ministers as India chairs bloc
India hosted the 14th BRICS Science, Technology and Innovation Ministerial Meeting in Chennai on Friday, as part of its chairship of the bloc for 2026. Minister of State for Science and Technology Jitendra Singh chaired the event.
The meeting focused on deepening cooperation among BRICS nations in emerging technologies. Singh told the media after the talks that members discussed joint work on artificial intelligence, quantum technology, cyber security, climate change, and marine and deep-sea research.
The Chennai meet sets the science agenda ahead of the leaders' summit later this year. India is using its chairmanship to push for shared research platforms and resource pooling among the expanded BRICS group.
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India's BRICS chairship this year comes as the bloc expands to include new members like Iran and the UAE, adding political heft but also divergent priorities to the science and technology agenda. Chennai was chosen for the meet partly because of its established science infrastructure: the city hosts the IIT Madras Research Park and the National Institute of Ocean Technology, both directly relevant to the deep-sea and quantum research areas discussed. The outcomes of this ministerial will feed into the BRICS Summit later this year, where India is expected to push for joint funding mechanisms for flagship projects. The real test will be whether the bloc's biggest members, China and Russia, commit to concrete resource-sharing in the sensitive field of quantum technology, where India has its own national mission running.
Source: myanmaritv.com
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