News behind The News – 06 June, 2022

POLITY

• Cover Story: 2014-22: Modi Government’s 8 Years - more Hits than Misses

• Cover Story: 2014-22: Foreign Policy Initiatives

• Expert Analyses: Gyanvapi: The Past ‘Should not hold our Future to Ransom’

• Congress: London Meetings to Project Rahul Gandhi

• Jammu and Kashmir: Targeted Killings - Panic Stricken ‘Pandits’ (Hindus) Threaten to Leave

• Internal Security Challenges: Polic Y Options - Statecraft vs Policing

DEFENCE

• Rule-Based, Open INDO-Pacific Essential for Regional, Global Prosperity: Rajnath Singh

• India, Israel Sign Framework for Strengthening Defence Cooperation

• Navy Commissions New Advanced Light Helicopter Squadron

• Rs 2,900 Crore Arms deal with State-Run Bharat Dynamics

• Crown Group Defence Signs up Wilo Pumps to Support Indian Naval Ships Pumps Indigenisation

NEIGHBOURS

• Expert Analyses: India - Pakistan: Possibility of a Thaw!

• Expert Analyses: India - Afghanistan: Delhi Reviewing its Role in Kabul

INTERNATIONAL

• Quad:  India’s Strategic Autonomy Works

• Ukraine: India must Stand with Democracies

• India Buys Cheap Russian Crude, but Jeopardises its Fuel Exports

ECONOMY

Expert Analyses: GDP Grows by 8.7% in 2021-22: Interpretation of Data

India’s Start-Up Story: Reality Bites

STATE OF THE ECONOMY

• State Bank of India (SBI) upgrades real GDP to 7.5% from 7.3%

• Inflation, crude price risks to growth

• Reserve Bank of India will  increase interest rates: Reuters poll

• Shopping, eating out surge

INDUSTRY

• Manufacturing PMI falls from 54.7 in April to 54.6 in May 

• Services PMI growth, inflation at record highs

AFGRICULTURE

• Normal monsoon predicted
• Sugar exports at 10mt

POLICY INITIATIVES

• Privatisation of two public sector banks

UNEMPLOYMENT

• Hiring projections