News behind The News – 03 May, 2021

STORIES, ANALYSES, EXPERT VIEWS

POLITY

  • Assembly Elections: National Significance

  • Expert Analyses: Covid -19: Governance at Breaking Point

  • Expert Analyses: PM Modi’s Image to Test

  • Covid Shadow over Centre-State Equations

  • Unhappier Times for Democracy

 

EXPERT COMMENTS

  • BJP’s Summer of Discontent

DEFENCE

  • India Third Highest Military Spender: SIPRI

  • Aircraft Carrier Vikrant, Missile Destroyer Visakhapatnam to be delivered in 2021

  • Navy to Lease 24 Utility Choppers for Five Years

  • On Maiden Deployment, UK Carrier Strike Group Sailing to India

  • Coast Guard Locates Missing Fishing Boat Mercedes at High Seas

  • Army Seeks 350 Light Tanks for Fighting China

  • Cap on Premature Retirement to Continue

  • Defence Research Agency Develops Single Crystal Blade Technology for Chopper Engines

  • Python-5 Air-To-Air Missile Tested From Tejas for the First Time

  • ALH Dhruv Demonstrates Deck Operations Capabilities in Ship-Borne Trials

EXPERT COMMENTS

  • Eastern Ladakh: Nothing to Report - ‘Trust but Verify’ Information!

  • Yoshihide Suga’s Tryst with India

NEIGHBOURS

  • Chinese Double Speak

  • Myanmar, Afghanistan: Long Road to Peace

 

EXPERT COMMENTS

  • Decoding the India-Pakistan Ceasefire: Optimistic Conclusions Misplaced

 

INTERNATIONAL

  • India - US: Positive Pandemic Impact on Relations

  • Counter Negative International Media Narrative: Diplomats Told

  • In Policy Shift, India accepts Foreign Aid, Including from China

  • India - US: Sanctions for S-400 Deal Will Hurt Ties, Ex-Envoy Juster

  • India - Russia: '2+2 Ministerial Dialogue'

EXPERT COMMENTS

  • Come Home America: The Implications for India and Af-Pak Region

ECONOMY

  • The ‘Second Wave will Extract a Large Economic Cost’

STATE OF THE ECONOMY

  • Growth vs inflation

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

  • Skilled parsons, never had it better

ECONOMIC NOTES