News behind The News – 19 August, 2024

POLITY

• Expert Analyses: PM Modi’s I-Day Speech:  Takeaways

• Cover Story: BJP Under Pressure from within and without: Plan A, Plan B not Working

• Expert Analyses: India’s Complex Social Milieu: Lack of Unity in ‘Dalit’ Politics

• Census Delays: Implications 

• Jammu and Kashmir: Holding Elections

• Supreme Court allows States to Collect Past Tax Dues From Mining Companies: Financial Impact

DEFENCE

• India's Big Bang Boom Enters Africa, with Europe Next in Sight

• India Unveils New 'Swadeshi' Kamikaze Drones with 1,000 km Range

• With an Eye on China and Pakistan, India Fast-Tracks Deal for 31 'Hunter-Killer' Drones from the US

• Made-in-India Portable Anti-Tank Missile 

• India becoming Self-Reliant in Defence Sector, Emerging as Global Manufacturing HUB: PM Modi

• Second Phase of Cyber Centre of Excellence and Research Opened New Delhi

• EOS-08 Earth Observation Satellite Launched

• Comment: India’s Defence Budget 2024–25: Key Highlights

NEIGHBOURS

• Expert Analyses: India - Maldives: Realisation the India is Indispensable

• Expert Analyses: India - Bangladesh: Incredibly Challenging Times

• Comment: Bangladesh at Crossroads: Expectations High from Interim Government on Restoration of Democracy

• Expert Analyses: South Asia: Challenges in India’s Backyard

• India - China: India’s Options to Reduce Trade Imbalance 

• Andaman & Nicobar Undergoing Major Upgrade

INTERNATIONAL

• India - UK: Indian Acquisitions / Investments Drive Relations

• Comment: The Kamala Harris Story Personifies Rising Indian American Aspirations In A Changing America

ECONOMY

ADANI-HINDENBURG SAGA CONTINUES WITH SEBI CHIEF BEING ACCUSED

STATE OF THE ECONOMY

• India to become 3rd-largest economy by 2027: IMF’s Gita Gopinath

• Softening  inflation: not a durable decline

TECHNOLOGY

• Apple’s India business surpasses USD 23 billion

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

• IT hiring SET to surge 8.5%

SHIPPING

• New shipbuilding  being considered