News behind The News – 21 June, 2021

STORIES, ANALYSES, EXPERT VIEWS

Jun 21, 2021 - 12:01 Updated: Jun 27, 2021 - 15:08
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POLITY

  • The Modi Cult will Survive Despite Setbacks

  • Assembly Polls in 8 States Next Year: Uttar Pradesh most Crucial

  • High Court Defines ‘Terrorist Activity’; Raises The Bar

  • Government, Twitter Spat

  • Preparing for a Third Wave

 

DEFENCE

  • Asean Defence Ministers' meeting plus: India for a free and open Indo Pacific

  • Reforms in the Armed Forces

  • Military Doctrine: Learning from Indigenous and Foreign Thought

  • Coast Guard inducts advanced Light Helicopters to Boost Land-Sea Connectivity

  • Jetendra Gavankar is New Safran Helicopter Engines Chief in India

  • $68 Million, 5-year Funding for Startups for Defence Innovation

  • India Decides to dismantle British-Era Arms Factories to Create 7 New State-Run Companies

  • Long-Range Drones delivery this Month

  • Colombo Port City Project and Indian Concerns

  • India’s China Challenge: Why the Indo-Tibetan Border Police needs Air Support

 

NEIGHBOURS

  • India’s Continuing Distrust of China

  • India - China: One Year after Border Clash, India Sheds Policy Inhibitions

  • A year after Galwan Clash: India's Stress on Military Modernization, Strategic Partnerships to Counter China

  • China Claims Bhutanese Territory to Coerce India

  • China, India, Pakistan Expanding Nuclear Arsenal:  SIPRI

  • Afghanistan: Option of talking to ‘Nationalist' Taliban

  • Multiple State Actors' Clashing interests may throw Afghanistan's Future into Uncertainty

  • Climate Change: South Asia in Danger of Extreme Events

 

INTERNATIONAL

  • G-7 Summit: India aligns with the West on China   

  • G7: India Signs open Societies Pact on Universal Rights

  • India - China: World Suspicious of China, Not India

 

ECONOMY

ECONOMY: BLEAK OUTLOOK FOR A NEAR-TERM REVIVAL

STATE OF THE ECONOMY

  • Economy likely contracted 12% in Q1: Report

  • WPI inflation:  all-time high

POLICY INITIATIVES

  • More subsidy for electric two-wheelers

CIVIL AVIATION 

  • Domestic air traffic 63% lower in May

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 

  • Top 5 Indian IT companies to add over 96,000 employees: Nasscom

TRADE

  • May exports up 69% to $32 bn; trade deficit at 8-month low

  • $600 billion of foreign exchange reserves, may not be adequate: RBI