News behind The News – 27 September, 2021

POLITY

• PM Narendra Modi Instills Confidence: Congress no Match

• BJP Trying to balance Caste Aspirations

• Punjab: Charanjit Singh Channi, First Dalit Chief Minister

• Two Kinds of Chief Ministers

• JAMMU AND KASHMIR

  - Factionalism raises its head

  - J&K Order  on Govt employees will further alienation

• Fertility Rates of Hindus and Muslims Converging: Pew Study

• Covid-19: Resuming Vaccine Export Next Month

• India's Resumption of Vaccine Supplies Will Ensure Low-Cost Jabs for the World's Poor

• World Health Organisation Revises Air Quality Norms

DEFENCE

• Gen Rawat’s ‘Clash of Civilisation’ Remark

• Army Accelerates Overhaul

• Defence Ministry Seals Contract for 118 Arjun Tanks

• Air Marshal Chaudhari Named New IAF Chief

• India Signs Contract for $3-Billion Airbus Cargo Planes, to be Made Locally

• India Releases Policy on Simulators for Armed Forces Training

• India Lists 23 Companies Barred from doing Defence Business Since 2006

• Indian Dynamatic to Make Aerostructure for American Boeing’s F-15ex Jets

• Making Green Nod to Strategic Nuclear Power Plants Easier

• Comment: US–Pakistan Equations at a Crossroads

• Comment: India’s Approach to the Afghan Crisis as President of UN Security Council

NEIGHBOURS

• Jaishankar’s ‘Multi-Alignment’ Theory

• Afghanistan: China Reluctant, but cannot let go the Opportunity

• Afghanistan: Across the Board Support for Taliban in Pakistan

• Post Taliban, Pakistan may still be Useful to the US

• SAARC Ministers’ Meet called off as Pakistan wants Taliban at Table

• India Should Make Peace with China, Not Align with US

INTERNATIONAL

• PM Narendra Modi’s US visit

  - Biden, Modi Bilateral:  About Democratic Values, Pakistan and Afghanistan

  - Modi, Kamala Harris Discuss Bilateral Ties, Indo-Pacific

  - PM Modi’s Bilateral Meetings with Pm Yoshihide Suga and PM Scott Morrison

  - PM Modi Discusses Defence Tech with General Atomics Chief Executive

  - PM Modi Meets Leading American CEOs

• Quad Summit: Focus on China and Indo-Pacific

• AUKUS Shadow over Quad: Implications for India

• Yet another US Alliance

• Modi's US visit: It will be more Substance, Less Optics

• India - France: Modi Talks with Macron

• After US' Afghanistan Pullout Quad Summit to Have a Renewed Indo-Pacific Focus; India Could Play Bridge Role for EU

• Jaishankar’s ‘Multi-Alignment’ Theory

• Pakistan an 'Arsonist' Disguising Itself as A 'Fire-Fighter', India Tells UN

• India - UK: New UK Covid-19 Travel Rules will Diminish Trust

ECONOMY

STATE OF THE ECONOMY

• ADB cuts India growth forecast to 10%; inflation at 5.5%

INDUSTRY

• India up 2 places on Global Innovation Index

AUTOMOBILES

• 2021 could be second best year for Indian PV market

E COMMERCE

• Amazon’s e-commerce portal’ in trouble over bribery charges

TRADE

• Tamil Nadu aims $100 bn exports by 2030

MARKETS

• Sensex past 60K for first time