Karnataka and Goa join power bailout UDAY scheme, Gujarat introduces local content rules for government purchasing, Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan travels to China, Rajasthan to tax e-commerce purchases when the goods come from out of state, Telangana…
ADB approves $100 million loan to Tamil Nadu for irrigation management, Karnataka to allow women to work at night, Delhi introduces new solar energy policy, Uber to have fare caps and no surge pricing to continue services in Karnataka, Maharashtra…
By Sundar Ramanujam — When Tamil Nadu chief minister J. Jayalalithaa’s All-India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party (AIADMK) won the 2016 Assembly Elections last month, she broke a 32-year pattern of anti-incumbency. While her successful re-election brings good news for…
By Esther Sainsbury — U.S. president Barack Obama recently said that he was “confident” Congress would pass the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal in 2016. But with no apparent effective legislative strategy, the conclusion of Obama’s presidency fast approaching, and…
By Murray Hiebert & Phuong Nguyen — Two months after the National League for Democracy (NLD) government took office, State Counselor and Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi embarked on a process to start addressing the plight of stateless Muslims…
Rajya Sabha elections take place on June 11; Andhra Pradesh is the likely new home of the Westinghouse nuclear power plant; Gujarat announces its start-up policy for the IT industry; Karnataka suspends Uber and Ola; Rajasthan repeals hundreds of obsolete…
By Phuong Nguyen — Thai prime minister Prayuth Chan-o-cha’s keynote speech at the opening of the Shangri-La Dialogue on June 3 in Singapore stirred debate among those in the audience. Some were inclined to think the former general used the…
Karnataka amends its land acquisition law to make it easier to buy land for infrastructure; Andhra Pradesh signs first ever 99-year lease (with an option to buy); the Union Cabinet approves 13 new Smart Cities and 6 new IITs and…
By Zhonghe Zhu — With a median age of 46.5 years, Japan is now home to the world’s oldest population. Without rising labor force participation, a graying Japan will see its working population shrink. This decline in the labor force…
By Sarah Watson — Students of Indian politics love to argue about the relative merits of different “models” of development — the business-friendly “Gujarat model,” for instance, versus the left-wing “Kerala model.” But simply comparing static outcomes across different states…
