News behind The News – 14 February, 2022

STORIES, ANALYSES, EXPERT VIEWS

POLITY

  • Cover Story: Debate on Motion of Thanks: BJP and Congress Slug it out

  • Expert Analyses: Karnataka Hijab Row: It’s more Than an Anti-Hijab Protest

  • Comment: India’s Intangible Heritage: It’s Composite, Living Culture Carries a Multidimensional Message in Trying Times

  • Assembly Elections: Watch for up Outcome

  • Union Budget: The Numbers and National Security

 

DEFENCE

  • India-EU Consultations on Disarmament and Non-Proliferation

  • Army: Army Conducts First Ever Hackathon at Military College of Telecommunication Engineering, Mhow

  • Army Implements Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) of Ammunition Stock

  • Atal Tunnel Officially Recognised as 'Longest Highway Tunnel above 10,000 Feet' by World Book of Records

  • Awards to Defence Estates Personnel for Survey of 17.78 Lakh Acres

  • Air Force: Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) at Singapore Airshow

  • Air Marshal Anantharaman is New IAF Air Officer-in-Charge Administration 

  • Defence Production: Brahmos Export: Strategic Implications

  • Comment: Sri Lanka–China fiasco over Shipment of Contaminated Fertiliser 

  • Comment: India–Israel Defence Trade and Defence Indigenisation

 

NEIGHBOURS

  • Expert Analyses: Government’s Policies Bring Pak and China Closer: Rahul Gandhi

  • India - China: A Grey Relationship

  • India - Pakistan: Demilitarisation of Siachen Glacier

  • Afghanistan: Opportunity for India to Improve Relations with Pakistan

  • Comment: India Must Not Politically or Economically Appease China

  • India - Sri Lanka: Visit of Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Peiris

  • Comment: Bangladesh Has Stake in Peace and Stability In India's Northeast

 

INTERNATIONAL

  • Expert Analyses: Ukraine and the Emerging India-Russia-US-China Axis

  • Quad Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Australia

  • India - Australia: A Transformed Relationship

  • China’s Quad Paranoia

ECONOMY

EXPERT ANALYSES: BI-MONTHLY MONETARY  POLICY: RBI MAINTAINS STATUS QUO

INFLATION

  • Fuel price rise will impact inflation: India ratings

INDUSTRY

  • ’67% MSMEs temporarily closed’ in FY21 during pandemic

AUTOMOBILES

  • Passenger vehicle wholesales decline

TRADE

  • Exports rise 28.51% during February 1-7