News behind The News – 13 November, 2023

POLITY

• Cover Story: Assembly Elections: BJP Worries; A Confident Congress

• Mizoram Assembly Elections: Issues in a Three Cornered Contest

• Pollution: Supreme Court Directive

• Semiconductor Fabrication: Issues

• India becomes most Represented Country in qs University Asia Rankings; Overtakes China

DEFENCE

• First Indus-X Investors meet held in Delhi Ahead of 2+2 INDO-US Ministerial Dialogue

• Comment: India’s LCA Tejas, Pakistan’s Jf-17, Chinese J-10c Aircraft Set to Clash for Attention at Dubai Air Show

NEIGHBOURS

• Expert Analyses: India - Bhutan: King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck visit

• Critique on India’s Foreign Policy in S. Asia and in the Region

• Comment: Muizzu as The Eighth President of The Maldives: Implications for India-Maldives Relations

INTERNATIONAL

• India - US: 2+2 Dialogue

• Israel - Hamas War: BJP Embraces Israel in Theory but BJP Supports Two-State Solution

• Israel - Hamas War: Lesson for India - Operational Superiority No Solution to Political Process

• India - Iran discuss Israel-Hamas Conflict

• Expert Analyses: India, Qatar: Relations at Cross Roads

• Indian Products Replacing China in US

ECONOMY

SHRINKING MIDDLE-CLASS

EMPLOYMENT: CORRECT FACTS

STATE OF THE ECONOMY

• Growth forecast for 2023 and 2024 unchanged at 6.7 and 6.1 per cent: Moody’s

• India vulnerable to "recurring and overlapping" food price shocks: RBI

MONEY AND BANKING

• India Finance Report:  cautions for RBI and government

AUTOMOBILES

• Passenger vehicle retail sales drop 1.36% in October

• Tesla to enter India in 2024

ELECTRONICS

• Tata Electronics acquires 100% stake in Wistron India