News behind The News – 22 September, 2025

POLITY

• Expert Analyses: PM at 75: Rising from Margins

• Bihar Assembly Elections: Opposition at Striking Distance

• Maoists / Naxalites Offer Peace: Government Apprehensive

• Use of Abusive Language:  BJP & Opposition both to Blame 

• Manipur: Much More Needs to the Done 

• WAQF ACT:  3 Key Provisions Stayed by Supreme Court

DEFENCE

• Saudi to Join Pakistan if it goes at war against India? How New Delhi views their latest Defence Deal

• No Customs Duty, IGST on 18 Defence Imports: Military Aircraft, Drone Batteries, Among Items to Get Relief

• Indian Armed Forces to Establish Three Joint Military Stations, Create Tri-Services Education Corps

• Combined Commanders’ Conference

• Deal for 114 Rafale as Early as Next Year

• Nine Years after Uri Attack, Impunity for Lashkar-E-Taiba Persists in Pakistan

• Pahalgam Attack – Dharma, OP Sindoor – Karma: Rajnath Singh Explains How India and Pakistan Think

• Comment: Stealth Frigates and India–Russia Defence Cooperation

NEIGHBOURS

• India - Pakistan: Saudi-Pakistan Defence Pact; Not Surprising, Says Cautious India

• India - Bangladesh:   India Should Not React Like Anxious Uncles

• Expert Analyses: Trump Tariff Impact: From China, Russia, Japan to Europe, Latin America, Gulf and Africa 

• India - Nepal: Likely a Prolonged Period of Uncertainty for Bilateral Relations

INTERNATIONAL

• Cover Story: India - US:  Rapprochement in the Making?

• India Should Prepare For Conflicts Now Brewing Within the West

• India - Russia:  Defence Cooperation and Oil at the Heart of Relations

• Expert analyses: India - eu:  ‘new strategic eu-india agenda’

ECONOMY

ENERGY

• Solar sector boom in the midst of risks: Yes Securities report

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

• Tata Electronics iPhone shipments ring in maximum gains from US

REAL ESTATE

• GCC fuelling office space boom

MONEY AND BANKING

• Banks could lend more than Rs 10,000 crore to a corporate

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

• India could be the  world’s data capital: NITI Aayog report

INVESTMENTS

• World Bank's private arm IFC plans to double India investments to $10 bn by 2030: MD Makhtar Diop

• Upcoming IPOs on D-St may add up to $1.5 trillion m-cap within a decade: Jefferies

AUTOMOBILES

• Passenger vehicle dispatches decline 9%

MARKETS

• $70 bn in equity hits India soon: Jefferies warns of massive test for retail investors

• Worst declines may be over