Current Issue: News behind The News – 08 September, 2025

POLITY

• Manipur: PM’s Proposed Visit: Significance

• Expert Analyses: Bihar Assembly Elections: Opposition Counting On ‘Vote Theft’ Allegation

• India Plans to Capture 10% of the Global Semiconductor Market

DEFENCE

• A 15-Year Roadmap: Nuclear-Powered Warships, Hypersonic Missiles ETC

• Debate Over Theatre Commands Continues

• India Takes a Tough Tone; Signs SCO’s Tianjin Declaration Condemning Israel, US Strikes – What Changed?

• China Plays Hardball with Pakistan over CPEC Phase-2 AMID Asim Munir’s Meet with Xi – will Islamabad Oblige?

• Malabar Naval Exercise 2025: Defence ties over tensions? India, US, Japan, Australia’s joint drill on track

• Operation Sindoor Video: Drone, Missile Strikes to Ceasefire – How Indian Army Drew Line Against Terror

• DRDO Transfers Cutting-Edge Defence Materials: Radome, Special Steel Tech Given to BHEL, JSPL, SAIL

• Comment: The Rafale Marine Deal: Adding Strategic Depth to India–France Ties

NEIGHBOURS

• Cover Story: India - China: The Elephant, Dragon Tango; Sustainable or Posturing

• Comment: Modi-Xi meet reflects a Thaw. But issues that have Bedeviled Ties for Decades Remain

INTERNATIONAL

• SCO: Unmistakable Shift in Indian Foreign Policy Outlook

• Expert Analyses: Russia-India-China Troika

• Expert Analyses: India - Russia: Modi and Putin Affirm Special Relationship

• Expert Analyses: India - US: India, Russia and China Bonhomie IRKS US

• India - Japan: Renewed Focus on Ties

ECONOMY

EXPERT ANALYSES: GST REFORM:  A TRANSFORMATIVE SIMPLIFIED TWO-SLAB STRUCTURE

STATE OF THE ECONOMY

• A resilient and surprise GDP

• Services activity hits 15-year high

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

• Dip in hiring

MONEY AND BANKING

• India opts for golden hedge, cuts treasury-bill share in forex kitty

MARKETS

• FPI outflows at 7-month high

PHARMACEUTICALS

• Indian pharma  will  weather US tariff threat: Ind-Ra