News behind The News – 09 January, 2023

POLITY

• Expert Analyses: Constitutional Bench Upholds Demonetisation: Not Just an Academic Exercise

• Cover Story: 2023: A Challenging Year for BJP

• Rahul Gandhi’s Unity March:  Assessment

• Jammu and Kashmir: Terror Still Present

• The Resistance Front Declared a Terrorist Organisation

DEFENCE

• Theatre Command: Identity Issues of Services

• Rajnath Singh Opens 28 BRO Infrastructure Projects for Rs 724 Crore in Seven Border States

• Agnipath, a Game Changer Scheme for the Armed Forces, Rajnath Singh

• Army's Southern Command to Partner 75 Schools for ‘Viyanjali’ Scheme

• Rajnath Singh Reviews Operational Preparedness of Andaman-Nicobar

• Offshore Security Panel Meets to Review Preparedness

• Comment: Admm-Plus and India’s Act East Policy

NEIGHBOURS

• India - China: Countering China

• Rahul Gandhi Questions China Policy

• Expert Analyses: India - Pakistan: Let, JEM Fanning Communal War in J&K

• Expert Analyses: India - Nepal: Advantage China

• Boosting Ties in the Himalayan Arc

• Comment: Need For More Transparency in US Project Funding in Bangladesh

INTERNATIONAL

• G20 Presidency: Global Power Dynamics Makes India’s Chairmanship more Challenging

• G20 Presidency: Understanding Global South in Today’s Fluid International Order

• Navigating the Asian Century Difficult for India

• Comment: Multi-Layered Security Hurdles

• India - UK: Conversation between King Charles III, PM Modi

ECONOMY

2023: FACTORS ON WITH ECONOMIC GROWTH WILL DEPEND ON CRITICAL FACTORS

STATE OF THE ECONOMY

• India’s FY24 growth to dip to 5.5% from 6.8% in FY23: HSBC economist

• Improvement in manufacturing activity

• Challenge more on the growth than on the inflation

• Current account deficit forecast to below 3% of GDP: Citi

• Unemployment rate rises to 16-month high of 8.30% in December - CMIE

• Slump in India’s Unicorn story

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

• Microsoft building global products in India: CEO Satya Nadella

ENERGY

• National Green Hydrogen Mission approved