News behind The News – 26 April, 2021

STORIES, ANALYSES, EXPERT VIEWS

POLITY

  • COVID-19: India is at ‘War’

  • PM’s Biggest Crisis Yet

  • Migrant Exodus 2.0

  • Dealing with a Determined Lot of Maoists

  • Jammu and Kashmir: Concern over The New Domicile Law

 

EXPERT COMMENTS

  • No Light Yet at the end of the Covid Tunnel

DEFENCE

  • Military Reforms

  • Rafale Training of IAF Pilots in France ends

  • Romeo Anti-Submarine Chopper Undergoing Flight Trials

  • China Deploys Long-Range Rocket Launchers as ‘Deterrent to India’

  • Indian Navy Commissions First Dhruv Mkiii Chopper Unit

  • Navy Sends Its Submarine Rescue Vessel to Indonesia

EXPERT COMMENTS

  • China-Pakistan Strategic Nexus: Implications for India

NEIGHBOURS

  • Expert Analyses: Afghanistan: India’s Loss is China’s Gain

  • India - China: China Deploys Long-Range Rocket Launchers

  • India - China: The Kailash Heights Offensive

  • India - Pakistan: Pakistan must Defang Itself for Peace to be Sustainable

 

EXPERT COMMENTS

  • Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan are no more LDCS - But Covid-19 Casts a Shadow over Their Graduation

 

INTERNATIONAL

  • Covid Handicaps Foreign Policy Initiatives

  • India - US: Subtle message of us Destroyer Intruding into India’s EEZ

  • Australian initiative to Widen Indo-Pacific Partnership with India

  • Climate Change: What India must do

EXPERT COMMENTS

  • Need to develop International Guidelines to Regulate Military Activities in EEZS

  • Russia holds the key to India’s Eurasian Policy

ECONOMY

  • Expert Analyses: Cover-19 Surge: Economic Consequences

STATE OF THE ECONOMY

  • Normal monsoon forecast

  • India has constrained fiscal capacity, limited monetary policy room: World Bank chief economist

INFLATION WORRIES

  • RBI and government should work together

AUTOMOBILES

  • Sales of EVs fall 20 % in FY’21

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

  • IT jobs back in demand

ECONOMIC NOTES