News behind The News – 02 June, 2025

POLITY

• Expert Analyses: Politics after Operation Sindoor

• Tamil Nadu’s Space Sector Policy

• Expert Analyses: Northeast: Progress, Challenges and Countering an Unfriendly China-Pakistan-Bangladesh Triumvirate

• Jammu and Kashmir: Revive Tourism 

• Naxalism: Striking at the Root

• Comment: Maoists in a Quagmire: After Nambala Kesava RAO

• India’s Demographic Dividend: Real or Projected

DEFENCE

• POK is Part of India; it will voluntarily return to Our Mainstream: India's Rajnath Singh

• India Notifies Armed Forces Rules for Greater Jointness and Command Efficiency

• ‘Red Teams’ of Experts to Map ‘Mind of Adversary’

• Chief of Defence Staff to Attend Shangri-La Dialogue 2025

• Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft Project Execution with Private Sector Participation Approved

• Kaveri Engine Delays

• Defence Minister Rajnath Singh Approves 'Miniratna' Status to Three State-Run Industries

• DRDO Opens Centre for Quantum Technology to Boost Strategic Applications Capabilities

• Taking Defence to Next Level:  Indian Satellites

• Comment: OP Sindoor: Is India Moving Towards Unified Theatre Command

• Comment: American Military Analyst On Operation Sindoor: Victory for India, Defeat for Pakistan, Loss for China Arms Industry

NEIGHBOURS

• Cover Story: India - Pakistan: Security Landscape has been Fundamentally Altered; Strategic Implications

• Cover Story: Countering the Battle of Narratives through a Diplomatic and Political Makeover

• China Blocks Ban on 5 Pakistan-Based Terrorists

• Cyber Attacks by Pakistan

• IMF, World Bank Assisting Pakistan’s War Effort!

• Comment: Vital to Build on Operation Sindoor Gains

• China is ‘Primary Adversary’, Pakistan more an ‘Ancillary’ Security Problem: U.S. Report

• India - Bangladesh: Army-Yunus Tussle

• India - Nepal: Return of the King?

INTERNATIONAL

• Expert Analysis: India - US: The Not so Smooth Trade Relations

• India and Pakistan’s Global Arms Purchase Trends

• India - Canada: Time to Rebuild Relations 

• India - Africa: Digital Partnership

ECONOMY

THE ECONOMY: PATH FROM $4TN TO $30TN

INDIA OVERTAKES JAPAN AS THE FOURTH-LARGEST ECONOMY; OR IS IT THE THIRDS LARGEST?

SIGNIFICANT FALL IN POVERTY LAST YEAR: DRIVEN BY GDP GROWTH

TRADE

• A fundamental structural change

AUTOMOBILES

• Japan makes it to top five markets for India-made cars

ENERGY

• India will be a large force inside a smaller global oil growth muscle, but not game changer