News behind The News – 19 May, 2025

POLITY

• Expert Analyses: Operation Sindoor:  Political Impact

• Caste Enumeration: Transformative and Commendable

• Covid-19 Pandemic Deaths: Much Higher than Acknowledged

DEFENCE

• Operation Sindoor: India PM Modi Refers to Buddha and Shakti (Power) to Warn Pakistan on Terror

• OPP Sindoor: Defence Budget Expected to Receive Additional Rs 50,000 Crore

• Operation Sindoor: Performance of Indigenous Weapon Systems

• India’s Indigenous Air Defence Triumph in Operation Sindoor

• Operation Sindoor Demonstrates That India is a Global Power

• OP Sindoor is India’s War on Terror, Choking Indus Waters Is Pakistan’s Death by Strangulation

• Pakistan's Misinformation on Operation Sindoor Churned from Fake News Factories in China, Foreign Media

• 'At Least 10 Satellites Working Continuously,’ Says ISRO Chairman

NEIGHBOURS

• Cover Story: Operation Sindoor: Analyses of the Aftermath 

• INDUS Waters Treaty: Pakistan Willing to Discuss Terms

• Expert Analyses: India - China: Chinese Weapons for Pakistan Deepens Divide

INTERNATIONAL

• Expert Analyses: India - US: Understanding Us President Donald Trump’s Stance  on India,  Pakistan

• India - Turkye: Need for Recalibrate Relationship

• India - EU: Europeans Not Sure of India

• Expert analysis: U.S.-China Trade Deal: Impact on India

• India - UK FTA: Pros and Cons

• India - Gulf: Deepening Economic ties

ECONOMY

STATE OF THE ECONOMY

• Inflation under control

• ‘Tamil Nadu makes more money than Pakistan’

SEMICONDUCTORS

• Sixth semiconductor unit: HCL–Foxconn JV approved in UP

PHARMACEUTICALS

• US drug price overhaul: impact on India’s generics industry

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

• US tariff impact: Indian IT majors  are signing fewer deals

• India’s Satellite Internet Market