News behind The News – 18 April, 2022

POLITY

• Self-Defeating Communal Conflict

• Jammu and Kashmir: Changing Scenario

• CPM’s 23^rd Party Congress

• ‘Normal’ Monsoon Forecast

DEFENCE

• India Firm on Indigenisation

• India, US Review Defence Cooperation

• Comment: India United States Maritime Collaboration

• India Holds Bilateral Military Talks with France, Australia

• Indian Air Force Signs up IIT-Madras for Indigenisation Efforts

• IAF Completes Rescue Operations at Deoghar

• India Must Deploy Comprehensive National Power in Future Wars: Air Chief Chaudhari

• TASL Delivers Combat Vehicles for High Altitude Operations to Army

• Second Successful High-Altitude Flight-Test of ATGM ‘HELINA'

• Gaganyaan Space Mission Update

NEIGHBOURS

• Expert Analyses: India - Pakistan: Give Peace a Chance 

• Comment: A 'Kaptan' Makes an Inglorious Exit: Who will now be the Establishment's Proxy in Pakistan?

• India - China: Learning Mandarin and Tibetology

• India - Sri Lanka:  Implications for India

• Comment: With Street Protests Mounting, Time running Out for Sri Lanka’s Rajapaksas

INTERNATIONAL

• Cover Story: India - US: Modi-Biden Virtual Summit

• Cover Story: India - US: 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue Outcome

• Cover Story: The Defence and Trade Dialogue

• Cover Story: India - US: US Crucial for India’s Tech Ambitions

• India - Germany: PM Modi to attend G-7

• India - EU: Talks on FTA Soon

ECONOMY

EXPERT ANALYSES: INFLATION AND GROWTH: TOUGH CHOICES

STATE OF THE ECONOMY

• Increased tax revenues: evidence of economy back on track

INDUSTRY

• IIP growth increases to 1.7 per cent in February

AUTOMOBILES

• Passenger vehicle sales dip

TRADE

• Trade deficit rises

INVESTMENTS

• Foreign investors have now turned net buyers

RETAIL SECTOR

• Retailers register 28% y-o-y growth in March

AGRICULTURE

• Record wheat crop to help India meet global demand

RENEWABLE ENERGY

• India to miss 2022 solar target