News behind The News – 16 June, 2025

STORIES, ANALYSES, EXPERT VIEWS

POLITY

  • Expert Analyses: 11 Years of BJP Government:  Performance Analyses

  • Expert Analyses: Understanding the Significance of the Census

  • Narrow Political Ends Gives Pakistan the Narrative Advantage

  • Jammu and Kashmir: The Railway Story

  • Manipur: Another Round of Unrest 

 

DEFENCE

  • India Panel to Consider Buying Air Defence Upgrade, Spy Planes, Midair Refuelers for Armed Forces

  • Will India Collaborate with Russia to make SU-57 Jets? Report says New Delhi Considering it

  • GE Eyes Engine Deal for India’s Stealth Fighter

  • After Ex ‘Nomadic Elephant’ in Mongolia, Indian Army to Partake in Multilateral Ex ‘Khaan Quest’

  • Not Mission-Ready: Indian Army’s First Apache Squadron Remains Non-Operational

  • Theaterisation: Need for a Functional Integration, Not Geographic

  • They Laughed at our Gun in 2012. Now it is make in India Poster Child: Bharat forge Baba Kalyani

  • Starlink as a Backup than a Direct Competitor to Existing Rural Broadband Infrastructure

  • Comment: The India–Pakistan Armed Conflict: Chinese Reactions

 

NEIGHBOURS

  • Cover Story:  India - Pakistan: Pertinent Questions Need to be Clarified

  • Cover Story: India - Pakistan:  Futility of Bilateral and Multilateral Diplomacy

  • Expert Analyses: India - China: Talks on Rare Earth Metals; India can be the Alternative Source

  • India - Bangladesh: Election to be held Sometime in April

INTERNATIONAL

  • Iran-Israel War: Israel Bombs Iran’s Nuclear Sites

  • Expert Analyses: India - US: Trump Resetting Ties with Pakistan Even as its Relationship with India has Acquired Wrinkles

  • Expert Analyses: India - Europe Draw Closer; A Partnership Out of Necessity

  • G7 Meet: Canada Forced to Invite India!

  • Changing Global Equations: India Needs To Reset

ECONOMY

EXPERT ANALYSES: INDIA IS THE FOURTH-LARGEST ECONOMY: MORE SIGNIFICANT  IS PROGRESS IN REDUCING BOTH MULTIDIMENSIONAL AND EXTREME POVERTY

STATE OF THE ECONOMY

  • Growth at 6.3 pc for FY26: World Bank
  • Inflation at 2.82 per cent
  • Indias tax policy dampens FDI
  • UP's GCC policy

AUTOMOBILES

  • A Rs 52,000-crore pileup