News behind The News – 01 March, 2021

STORIES, ANALYSES, EXPERT VIEWS

POLITY

  • Farm Protests: Unclear Future after Violence

  • Expert Analyses: The Republic Under Stress

  • Mood of the Nation Poll:  Its Modi all the Way

  • Congress: Vacuum of a Decisive Leadership

  • Covid Exacerbated Inequalities: The Right Winning over the Left, Globally

  • Jammu and Kashmir: Increase in Militant Recruitment Even As Security Improves

  • Climate Change Impact on India

 

EXPERT COMMENTS

  • Violence Mars Farmers’ Movement

DEFENCE

  • Republic Day Fly Past: Focus of Rafale

  • DRDO opens two New Weapon Facility in Hyderabad

  • Successful test of next Generation Akash Air Defence Missile

NEIGHBOURS

  • India - China: Uneasy Border

  • Pakistan Accusations of India Supporting Terrorist Organisations, A Charade

  • India - Sri Lanka: Fishing Disputes in Palk Bay

 

EXPERT COMMENTS

  • US Reviving Military Ties with Pakistan for Afghan Peace Amounts to Chasing a Chimera

  • Pakistan's Slow Assimilation of Gilgit-Baltistan: A Strategic Challenge for India

 

INTERNATIONAL

  • India will watch Biden moves on its Areas of Interest

  • Russia will not  choose between India and China

  • Operation ‘Vaccine Maitri’

EXPERT COMMENTS

  • Health Diplomacy: India-Made Vaccine at Centre Stage of Pandemic Management

ECONOMY

STATE OF THE ECONOMY

  • With 11.5% projected growth in FY22, India fastest growing economy: IMF

  • Economy estimated to clock 7.3% growth in 2021: UN

POLICY INITIATIVES 

  • New disinvestment policy


TELECOMMUNICATIONS

  • 5G roll out


MARKETS

  • 100% jump in IPOs in Q4 2020

INVESTMENTS

  • 13% rise in FDI in 2020

  • Overseas investment by Indian companies dips 42 pc

ECONOMIC NOTES