News behind The News – 28 March, 2022

STORIES, ANALYSES, EXPERT VIEWS

POLITY

  • Cover Story: BJP Invincible Today, but Politics is a Dynamic Process

  • Cover Story: Congress: Inconsequential even without The Gandhis

  • Hijab Unrest RSS to Counter Campus Front of India (CFI)

  • Climate: Emergency Plan Needed for Heat Extremes

  • Comment: India’s Indigenous People: Repository of India's Traditional Knowledge and Cultural Heritage

 

DEFENCE

  • India Clears Rs 8,357-Crore Defence Procurement, Including Spy Satellite for Army

  • Two-Third Businesses in India Have Seen Increase in Ransomware Attacks

  • Order for Prototype of Integrated Air Defence Combat Simulator (IADCS)

  • Urgency on Sukhoi Upgrade

  • Naval Innovation Organisation filed for at Least two IPRS each Month Since Sep 2020

  • Rajnath Singh Opens BRO Tourism Website for Border Areas

  • Comment: Quad and the Ukrainian Crisis

  • Comment: India’s Indigenous People: Repository of India's Traditional Knowledge and Cultural Heritage

 

NEIGHBOURS

  • Expert Analyses: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s Visit: Work in Progress, Slower than Desirable, Jaishankar

  • Analysing Chinese vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng’s Strategy Statement 

  • India - China: Nuclear Weapons the Only Option against an Overwhelmingly Strong China

  • India Possess a Significant Naval Capability, But its Overall Maritime Capability is Abysmal

  • Ukraine Impact: Changing Power Dynamics in S Asia

 

INTERNATIONAL

  • Expert Analyses: Ukraine Conflict: How is India Dealing with pressure

  • India - US: Pressure on India to Change Position on Russia

  • Ukraine Conflict: Relevance of Self-Reliance

  • Comment: India cannot be Dictated by US, UK on who to Trade with

  • Expert Analyses: India - Japan: Ukraine, Deepening Economic Cooperation and Strategic Concerns

  • Comment: Japanese PM Kishida's Delhi visit: The Missing Buzz about Japanese Investments in India

ECONOMY

SURGE IN EXPORTS: $400 BILLION TARGET ACHIEVED

UNEMPLOYMENT:  GOVERNMENT NOT DOING ENOUGH

STATE OF THE ECONOMY

  • Fitch revises GDP estimates for current and next fiscal

  • Rising inflation:  Impact

CIVIL AVIATION

  • India will require 2,210 new aircraft over the next 20 years

INVESTMENTS

  • FDI inflow declines