News behind The News – 22 February, 2021

STORIES, ANALYSES, EXPERT VIEWS

Feb 21, 2021 - 12:13 Updated: Feb 28, 2021 - 16:16
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POLITY

  • Expert Analyses: The Toolkit Controversy  

  • Modi’s New Political Narrative: Three Pillars

  • Not Amit Shah, Yogi Adityanath as Modi’s Successor?

  • Doubling Farm Income by 2022:  Target Seems Difficult

  • Punjab: Congress Sweeps Local Bodies’ Elections 

  • Significance of Upcoming State Elections

  • Jammu and Kashmir: Briefing Foreign Envoys

 

DEFENCE

  • L&T Delivers all Vajra Artillery Guns to Indian Army

  • Third Scorpene Class Submarine Delivered

  • Navy Signs Deal for Five Diving Support Craft with Titagarh Wagons

 

EXPERT COMMENTS

  • Why India should Prioritise Its Inner-Maritime Regions

  • Agreement on Disengagement on Lac: A Short, Positive, Step Forward…

NEIGHBOURS

  • Explaining China’s Decision to Disengage

  • India’s Strategic Ambitions According to Chinese Military

  • India - Myanmar: India, Japan Could Counter China  

  • India - Bangladesh: Too Much Reliance on One Leader

 

EXPERT COMMENTS

  • India and China: Trust Deficit Remains  

  • India Needs a More Assertive Policy on Tibet To Counter China

 

INTERNATIONAL

  • Blinken Helped Lower Temperature between India and China

  • Third Quad Meeting: Focus On China

  • India - Russia: Restoring Relations 

 

ECONOMY

No Option but to Reform

STATE OF THE ECONOMY

  • ‘GDP to grow at 13.5% in FY22: Nomura
  • States' fiscal deficit likely to reach 4.3% of GDP: IndRa
  • Rural consumption surges 14.2%: Nielsen
  • Inflation: future cause for worry

POLICY INITIATIVES 

  • Rules for digital payments


ONLINE RETAIL

  • Amazon circumvents stringent e-commerce regulations


MONEY AND BANKING 

  • Bank credit growth at 90% of FY20 level

ECONOMIC NOTES