News behind The News – 08 March, 2021

STORIES, ANALYSES, EXPERT VIEWS

POLITY

  • Expert Analyses: Assembly Elections: Significant for National and Regional Parties

  • Congress: G-23 Emerges As a Caucus

  • New Information Technology Rules to Govern Online Content: Analyses

  • India Downgraded from ‘Free’ to ‘Partly Free’: Freedom House

  • 85% Women Negatively Impacted by Covid-19: Linkedin

 

DEFENCE

  • Pawan Hans May Lease Out Helicopters to India Navy: Report

  • India Drone Startup Ideaforge Attracts Fresh Round of $2-Million Funding

  • Newspace India’s First Dedicated Launch Successful

EXPERT COMMENTS

  • CPEC: Chinese ‘Dragon’ in Pakistan’s ‘Tent'

NEIGHBOURS

  • India - Pakistan: Reading between the Lines of the Ceasefire Understanding

  • Afghanistan: What is India Looking for

  • Expert Analyses: India - China: Beyond Disengagement

  • Foreign Secretary on Relations with China, US

 

EXPERT COMMENTS

  • Is Peace Breaking out between India and Pakistan?

  • Afghanistan: Status of Doha Agreement and the Way Forward

  • Quad Should Define the New Global Narrative in Checking China's Rise

 

INTERNATIONAL

  • India - US - Russia: US Threat of Sanctions Over S-400

  • India - US:  Partnership Key to Checking China

  • Indian-Americans Taking Over Us: Biden

  • India - Myanmar: India’s Strategy

EXPERT COMMENTS

  • US vows to Deepen India Partnership against China Dangers; No Zero-Sum Proposition vis-A-Vis Pakistan

ECONOMY

  • Economy: Good Figures, But Uncertainty over the Medium Term

STATE OF THE ECONOMY

  • Factory activity  increases for 7th straight month: PMI

  • 40 billionaires added  in pandemic year

E-COMMERCE

  • AIMRA urges government to investigate Amazon's business practices

MONEY AND BANKING

  • Extreme weather events puts $84 billion of Indian banks debt at risk


TELECOMMUNICATIONS

  • 5G roll out


EXPERT COMMENTS

  • South Asia: Economic Reality and Policy Options

ECONOMIC NOTES