Goa and Punjab go to the polls; Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, and Madhya Pradesh are big winners in the annual railway ministry budget; Haryana inaugurates a single-window system for industrial clearances and raises its electricity taxes; Karnataka can now track…
GST to be rolled out by July 1; Chandrababu Naidu attends the World Economic Forum in Davos; Samajwadi and Congress party form alliance to contest Uttar Pradesh elections; the second unit of Kudankulam nuclear power project attains 100 percent generation…
Political developments in South Korea, the United States, and North Korea are all shaping up to affect the Korean Peninsula in 2017. CSIS Korea Chair Dr. Victor Cha joins to discuss President Park Geun-hye’s impeachment, the Trump administration’s Korea policy,…
Why is he in the news? U Thaung Tun was appointed Myanmar’s national security advisor on January 10. The new post created by the President’s Office was established, “to advise the president and the Union Government on internal and external…
By CSIS’s Beyond Parallel Staff — Key Findings: 91.6 percent of North Korean respondents consume foreign media at least once each month. 83 percent of respondents said they found outside goods and information to be of greater impact on their…
Telangana, Assam, and Tamil Nadu bring the complement of UDAY states to 21; the BJP continues to perform well in local elections; Maharashtra proposed to remove a major hurdle in the land acquisition process; Haryana creates a commission to simplify…
The death of longtime Thai King Bhumipol Adulyadej and the succession of his son, King Vajiralongkorn, marks the beginning of a sensitive period in Thai politics entering 2017. Murray Hiebert, Deputy Director of the CSIS Southeast Asia Program, joins the…
Who is he? Zulhasnan Rafique was recently appointed Malaysia’s fifteenth ambassador to the United States. Zulhasnan steps into this post from a diverse background, having served as an air force pilot, a parliamentarian, a businessman, and an academic. Earlier in…
By Sarah Watson — India has managed to avoid or overcome many of the counterterrorism quandaries that plague neighboring Pakistan. But India’s comparatively positive record in this area should not lead to complacency. Many of the challenges with which Pakistan…
By Alisha Sud — Amid increasing domestic pressure to alleviate chronic traffic congestion on India’s heavily-traveled roadways, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has sought to reprioritize public transportation and highway projects across the country. The 2016 Union Budget, released in…
