News behind The News – 26 December, 2022

STORIES, ANALYSES, EXPERT VIEWS

POLITY

  • BJP Strategy for 2024: Decimate Regional Parties or Join Them

  • Northeast Assembly Elections:  Important for BJP, Congress, and Opposition Unity

  • Expert Analyses: Congress: ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ (Unity March) Impact on Votes

  • Managing Terror Pays Off

  • Vision India, 2047

 

DEFENCE

  • Defence Acquisition Proposals worth rs 84k Crore Approved

  • Grse Lauches 'Arnala', the First Anti-Submarine Warfare Ship

  • MDL Delivers 5th Scorpene Submarine to Navy

  • Azad Engineering to Build Exclusive Manufacturing Facility for Mitsubishi

  • Idex-DIO Signs 150th Contract for Defence Innovation 

  • Defence Ministry Reforms to Boost Local Industry

  • Comment: Escalating Tensions between Pakistan and the Taliban

  • Comment: The PLA and Intelligentised Warfare

 

NEIGHBOURS

  • India - Pakistan: Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari’s Personal Attacks on PM Modi

  • Comment: Gen Asim Munir as Pakistan's Coas: Will There be A Re-Evaluation of His Predecessor's Policies?

  • India - China: 17th Corps Commander Level Meeting - No Forward Movement

  • Cover Story: India - China:  Beyond Tawang, China Seen as a Long-Term Challenge

  • India - China: Why Tawang Matters 

  • Comment: China & Rhymes of History

  • India - China: Reducing China Imports - Government’s Dilema

  • India - Nepal: Concerns over Chinese Contractors on Power Trade for the Region

INTERNATIONAL

  • India - Russia: Modi-Putin Talks - Brokering Peace in Ukraine

  • G20 Presidency: India Looking beyond the UN

  • Expert Analyses: Countering China in S. Asia and INDO-Pacific

  • Comment: Is the US-Led West Double-Timing India Over China?

  • China, India Competing for Influence in Gulf

  • Addressing The ‘Root Casue’  Of Terrorism

ECONOMY

STATE OF THE ECONOMY

  • Fitch retains India rating at BBB

  • FMCG rural demand improves

  • Gross direct tax collections up 26%

AUTOMOBILES

  • Car sales set to hit record 3.8 million units in 2022

ENERGY

  •  Coal production to touch 1 billion tonnes next fiscal