News behind The News – 05 September, 2022

POLITY

• Expert Analyses: Congress: on A Free Fall

• BJP Parallel for the Congress

• Jammu and Kashmir: Dominant Anxieties 

• Banning Rice Exports: No Threat to Food Security

DEFENCE

• India, China Military Commanders Meet to Discuss Present Conflict in Ladakh

• PM-Led Panel Approves Light Combat Aircraft MK2 Project

• After Glitches, US Grounds Chinook Choppers, India Operating Them as Usual

• Aircraft Carrier INS Vikrant Commissioned

• Keel Laid for Anti-Submarine Craft for Indian Navy at Cochin Shipyard

• Comment: National Hospital Ship and India’s Maritime Security Strategy

• Comment: Budgetary Reforms: The Forgotten Agenda

NEIGHBOURS

• Cover Story: India - Pakistan: Time to put Aside Differences

• India - Afghanistan: Threat Posed by Terror Groups from Afghanistan

• Comment: Gwadar and Mundra: Strategic Importance of Two Ports to Pakistan and India

• India - China: Probable Modi, Xi Meeting

• India - Sri Lanka: Delhi’s Coincerns about Beijing trying to Militarise Sri Lanka

• Comment: Sheikh Hasina visit to India: Needed A Landmark Agreement on Water Sharing, Better Border Management

• Comment: India-Bangladesh Ministerial Meet on Rivers: A Precursor to A Larger Deal Next Week but without Teesta?

INTERNATIONAL

• India’s One China Policy: Need for Review!

• India - Russia: Dependence on Russian Weapons

• India - Russia: Imports of Russian Crude Fall

• No Consensus at the International Conference to Review the NPT: Implications for India

• Striving for a Permanent Seat at UNSC: Odds against India

ECONOMY

EXPERT ANALYSES: Q1 GDP GROWS AT 13.5%: FASTEST PACE IN A YEAR, BUT SLOWER THAN EXPECTATIONS

STATE OF THE ECONOMY

• Agencies slash GDP growth

• Unemployment rate declines to 7.6% from 12.6% in April-June 2022: NSO survey

• Chief Economic Adviser optimistic  on the Economy

INDUSTRY

• India’s manufacturing growth trends higher as input cost inflation eases

AUTOMOBILES

• Impressive sales

INVESTMENTS

• FDI equity inflows shrink 6% in Apr-Jun

• India for local settlement of trades if G-Secs included in global indices