Current Issue: News behind The News – 06 October, 2025

STORIES, ANALYSES, EXPERT VIEWS

POLITY

  • Expert Analyses: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS): 100 Years

  • Expert Analyses: Bihar Assembly Elections

  • Expert Analyses: Ladakh: Detention of Sonam Wangchuk A Grave Mistake

  • Uttar Pradesh: The Politics of ‘I Love Muhammad’ Row

  • Assam: Groundwork for Assembly Elections in 2026

 

DEFENCE

  • India Looks to Procure More S-400/S-500 Air Defence Systems from Russia

  • India's Tank Maker Looking to Go Global, Eyes Partners

  • IAF’S IACCS+Army’s Akashteer+Navy’s Trigun = OP Sindoor Backbone; Did Rajnath Singh Make Theaterisation Push?

  • Drones Buzzing On the Border Front: How Bsf Aims To Transform Security with AI, GIS-Powered Centre, UAVS

  • Unified Tri-Services Education Corps, 3 Joint Stations: How is India Pushing Jointness before Theaterisation

  • Ladakh Protests, Pahalgam Attack Prompt Govt to Take a Leaf Out of 70s Playbook with Border Wing Home Guards

  • AMCA Project: HAL, TATA, Adani – Who will make India’s 5th Gen Fighter Jet? Bidding Games on for Mega Plan

  • Training Policy Overhaul by Army: What is the Key Policy Shift and What Does it Aim to Achieve?

  • Exercise Indra 2025: India-Russia’s 15-Day Effort to Bolster Ties; Joint Military Drills Start in Rajasthan

  • Fixed-Wing Assets: Why the Indian Army Needs its Own Wings

  • Army Issues Rs 30,000 Crore Tender for DRDO’s Anant Shastra Air Defence Missile System

  • Comment: The Unease AMID Newfound Warmth in Pakistan–Bangladesh Relations

 

NEIGHBOURS

  • Pakistan’s Ideology and Foreign Policy

  • An Unfair Critique of New India’s Foreign Policy

INTERNATIONAL

  • Cover Story: India - US:  As Trust becomes a Casualty, Difficult to Restore Normalcy

  • US - Pakistan: Trump Meets Asim Munir and Shehbaz Sharif Again: Delhi Should Take Note of This Shift

  • Germany Promises India ‘Liberal & Stable’ Migration Policies

  • Middle East: PM Modi Welcomes Donald Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan

  • India - Russia: Putin’s Declarations Prior to his visit in December

  • India’s Stepped UP Engagement with The Global South

ECONOMY

EXPERT ANALYSES: RBI’s MONETARY POLICY COMMITTEE (MPC) MEETING:  REPO RATE UNCHANGED; GROWTH AND INFLATION PROJECTIONS REVISED

STATE OF THE ECONOMY

  • Moody’s affirms India’s resilience, but no upgrade soon
  • GST surges 9.1%

INDUSTRY

  • Industrial growth rises by 4% in August

MONEY AND BANKING

  • Japan’s MUFG to acquire  20% stake in Shriram Finance for $2.6 billion