News behind The News – 16 May, 2022

POLITY

• Expert Analyses: Jammu and Kashmir: The Delimitation Exercise

• Supreme Court Suspends Sedition Law

• Khalistan:  Threat from Sikh Separatism

• PLEA for Minority Status for Hindus

• India, without a National Opposition

• National Family Health Survey (NFHS): Literacy and Delivery of Services, Not Religion, Influences Fertility

DEFENCE

• Enhance Capability through Latest Technology for Faster Infrastructure Development in Borders: Rajnath Singh

• Advancements in Futuristic Technologies Need of the Hour: India's Junior Defence Minister

• India Successfully Test Air-Launched Brahmos Missile from Sukhoi JET

• Boeing, AIESL to Collabore on MRO for Indian Defence Platforms

• MTAR Gets Approval from Board for Acquisition of Gee Pee Aerospace & Defence

• Horizon Aerospace Wins Boeing Deal for Maintenance, Support of Its Defence Platforms

• Comment: Why India’s Stance on Russia-Ukraine Crisis is Nuanced?

• Comment: India-Japan Strategic Partnership: Growing Convergence

NEIGHBOURS

• Cover Story: India - Sri Lanka: The Fall of Rajapaksas - Implications For India

• Comment: Price Of Chauvinism: Sri Lankans Soul-Search as Mass Fury Topples a Prime Minister

• Expert Analyses: India - China: Rival Strategies and the Way Forward

• China’s Strong Words on INDO-Pacific

• India - Pakistan: Onus on Pakistan to Restore Normalcy

• Comment: Bridging the India-Pakistan Divide: Let Families Reunite before its too late

• Afghanistan: India Recalibrating its Policy

INTERNATIONAL

• US will not Abandon INDO-Pacific Strategy

• India’s Dependence on Europe in Defence Matters is Unrealistic

ECONOMY

EXPERT ANALYSES: SERIOUS INFLATION WORRIES

PROTECTING THE FALLING RUPEE

INDUSTRY

• Party over: beginnings of a slowdown !

AGRICULTURE

• Record wheat exports in April