News behind The News – 07 February, 2022

POLITY

• Expert Analyses: Assembly Elections: Election Eve Roundup

• Israeli Spyware Pegasus Row

• Budget: Inadequate Funding for Internal Security

• The Controversial Hamid Ansari Speech on Hindu Nationalism

• Hate Crimes: Fundamental Cause May be ‘Rooted in the Psyche of Human Beings’

DEFENCE

• Union Budget: Defence Gets Total Outlay of Rs 1.52 Lakh Crore

• Big Boost for Indigenous Development of Defence Systems in Budget 2022

• India, Oman Review Progress in Military-to-Military Engagements

• Coast Guard Celebrates its 46th Raising Day

• 5th Scorpene Submarine Goes for First Sea Sortie before Commissioning

• Flight Tests Rafale-Marine for INS Vikrant

• President's Fleet Review and Milan Exercise Preparations Reviewed by Navy Chief

• Comment: Understanding China’s Growing Military Outreach in Central Asia

• Comment: AFSPA: Looking Beyond the Oting Incident

NEIGHBOURS

• PM Modi’s Ineffective Policies Bringing Pakistan and China Together: Rahul Gandhi 

• Countering China: More Funds in Budget for Infrastructure and for Vibrant Villages Programme

• India Boycotts Beijing Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony: Galwan Clash in Focus

• Comment: India must not politically or Economically Appease China

• India - Pakistan: Interview with Pakistan’s NSA

INTERNATIONAL

• Central Asian Republics (CAR): Assessment of back-to-back Summits by India and China

• Ukraine Crisis: Neutrality best Option for India

• India - US:  ‘Warnings about the Dangerous Course which India is taking’

• Diplomacy: Economic Relations and Trade Becoming the Dominant Theme

ECONOMY

COVER STORY: UNION BUDGET - ANALYSES OF THE GOOD AND THE NOT SO GOOD

ECONOMIC SURVEY 2022-23: HIGHLIGHTS

STATE OF THE ECONOMY

• Services sector activity slips further in January

INDUSTRY

• Consumer companies signal a strong recovery