News behind The News – 12 August, 2024

POLITY

• Analyses of Election Outcome and Post-Election Scenario

• Rahul Gandhi’s Political Potential

• BJP’s Economic Shift: Less Automation and more Labour

• Centre Proposes Major Reforms in WAQF Bill:  Anti-Conversion Law Made more Stringent in UP

• Supreme Court Verdict on Caste: Unequal, and the more unequal

• Expert Analyses: Jammu and Kashmir: 5 Years after Abolishing Article 370

DEFENCE

• Russian War Ship visit Kochi Port in India

• Indian Warship Reaches London on 4-Day Visit

• ICG Rescues Fisherman with Second-Degree Burns from IFB Sengalamman

• Need to Embrace Changes in Financial Processes Due to Rapidly Changing Nature & Character of War: CDS

• Global Disruptions an Opportunity for Domestic Defence Industry to Bolster Manufacturing: CDS Gen Anil Chauhan

• Joint Indo-US Spaceflight Mission

• Comment: Decoding the New Delhi–Yerevan Relationship

NEIGHBOURS

• Cover Story: India - Bangladesh:  Challenges for India  

• Comment: Lessons from Bangladesh’s Descent into Chaos

• India - Pakistan: Five Years after 370, Pakistan Remains Relevant in Kashmir

• Comment: Rampant Smuggling across Afghan-Pak Border Jeopardising Regional Security

• South Asia: Fragile State Index

• India - Myanmar: Fall of Military Base in Lashio has Implications beyond Myanmar’s Borders

• India - China: An Aggressive China Places India, Asia in Bind  

INTERNATIONAL

• West Asia on the Edge: MEA issues Advisories for People to be Cautious

• Comment: The Growing Salience of India’s State Governments in Expansion of India-UAE Ties

• Comment: Exponential Growth in India-Saudi Arabia Relations: Moving Past the Pakistan Factor

ECONOMY

RBI’S MONETARY POLICY COMMITTEE (MPC) MEET: RATES AND STANCE UNCHANGED

PITFALLS TOWARDS A HIGH GROWTH ECONOMY

WORLD BANK CRITIQUE OF INDIA’S ECONOMIC POLICY

STATE OF THE ECONOMY

• Dampened eight core infrastructure sectors

MONEY AND BANKING

• Change in regulations on foreign ownership in Indian banks likely