News behind The News – 24 May, 2021

STORIES, ANALYSES, EXPERT VIEWS

POLITY

  • BJP’s popularity will be tested in U.P. next year

  • Difficult Times for BJP - From within and without

  • The RSS has reasons to be worried about the BJP

  • India’s overwhelmed public health system crying for reforms

 

DEFENCE

  • Minister reviews efforts in fighting Covid-19

  • Overdoing leasing puts a strain on the stretched budget

  • Disengagement not de-escalation along LAC : Army Chief

 

NEIGHBOURS

  • China’s Assertive Diplomacy in S. Asia: Worries for India and Neighbours

  • India - China:  Building the strategic road infrastructure

  • Covid-19 suspicion on China’s Wuhan Lab: Dangerous Implications

  • China should approve Dalai Lama's successor: White Paper

  • India - Pakistan: Nuclear Stability

  • India-Pakistan ceasefire agreement: Can it last

 

INTERNATIONAL

  • Expert Analyses: Israeli-Palestine Conflict:  Nuanced Statement by India

  • Covid-19: International image suffers, but India is too strategic to fail

  • Jaishankar for Global Supply Chains Shifting to India

  • India-EU Summit: New dynamics and an FTA in the making

 

ECONOMY

  • Expert Analyses: Covid impact: Economists see a ‘Demand Shock’

  • ‘Dream’ budget did not account for a crippling second wave

STATE OF THE ECONOMY

  • Rs 8,924 cr released to 25 states for combating COVID-19

  • Unemployment rate at 14.5%: CMIE

  • Wholesale price index based inflation at 10.49 %

POLICY INITIATIVES

  • Reimbursement on welfare expenses incurred by multinationals in India outside gamut of tax

INDUSTRY

  • COVID-hit businesses may need loan restructuring

  • Industry  profits unlikely to survive pandemic

INVESTMENTS

  • Industry’s foreign investment  at $2.51 billion in April: RBI