News behind The News – 15 March, 2021

STORIES, ANALYSES, EXPERT VIEWS

Mar 15, 2021 - 21:48 Updated: Mar 21, 2021 - 16:04
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POLITY

  • 100 Days of Protest: Despite Gains, Farmers to wait Assembly Election Outcome

  • Assembly Elections: BJP Seeking to Build Presence in East and South 

  • New it rules vs Liberal Democracy

EXPERT COMMENTS

  • An Electoral Setback will hurt the BJP on the Farmers’ Issue 

 

DEFENCE

  • Navy Signs Deal for 11 Ammo, Torpedo, Missile Barges

  • India Commissions 3rd Scorpene Submarine into Navy

  • Grse Lays keel of 3rd advanced Stealth Frigate

  • Paras Defense files for Initial Public Offering

  • Fuel Cell Based Air Independent Propulsion (AIP) System Crosses Important Milestone of User Specific Tests

  • NASA-ISRO Sar (NISAR) Joint Collaboration

EXPERT COMMENTS

  • Quad Summit: An Opportunity to Define the Contours of the Post COVID Indo-Pacific

NEIGHBOURS

  • Expert Analyses: China’s Olive Branch: Deeper Motives

  • Dealing with China and Pakistan

  • Expert Analyses: Water Wars: China Approves Downstream Dams on Brahmaputra River

  • Expert Analyses: Afghanistan: India on High Table but with Limited Options

  • India - Pakistan: What Promoted the Ceasefire and will it Last

  • India - Bangladesh: China Waiting for an Opportunity

  • India - Sri Lanka: Colombo’s ‘Compromise’ With Port Project with New Delhi

 

EXPERT COMMENTS

  • Why New Delhi Should Not Fear The Taliban’s Return To Power In Kabul

 

INTERNATIONAL

  • Quad Virtual Summit

  • India - US: Modi no Longer a Reluctant Partner

  • India - UK: Strong response to UK MPS debating Farmer Issues

  • Vaccine Diplomacy: India can become an Independent Supplier of Low-Cost Vaccines

EXPERT COMMENTS

  • India's New Soft Power: Pharmacy of the World

ECONOMY

  • Economy: Difficult Road to Recovery

POLICY INITIATIVES

  • FDI limit in insurance sector raised to 74%

  • Amending telecom licence norms to regulate sourcing from China

  • New foreign trade policy

INDUSTRY

  • 10,113 companies shut operations during Apr 2020-Feb 2021

  • Google to support 1 million entrepreneurs in rural India

DISINVESTMENT

  • 100 big assets identified for privatisation

EXPERT COMMENTS

  • Privatisation is a Fraught Exercise in India: Will Modi Succeed?

ECONOMIC NOTES