By Sarah Ladislaw & Sharmila Bellur — Facts: India’s petroleum and natural gas minster, Dharmendra Pradhan, recently announced that the ministry will hold a new auction for oil and gas exploration blocks in July. This auction will be the first…
By Sarah Watson — A version of this post first appeared on Reconnecting Asia, a CSIS project mapping new connections across the Eurasian supercontinent. Since this piece was written, the United Naga Council announced that it was calling off the…
By Kartikeya Singh — In what journalists and political pundits in India are calling a “saffron wave,” election results from five Indian states have given a big bump to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). When results were announced on…
Election results in five states were announced on March 11. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won landslide victories in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, and will form governments in Manipur and Goa with the support of smaller parties. Congress won…
By Shefali Dhar — Election results for the massive Indian state of Uttar Pradesh (UP) are set to be released on Saturday. UP is the center of gravity for northern Indian politics; in addition to being India’s largest state by…
The Goods and Services Tax clears another major hurdle; Bihar, Haryana, and Madhya Pradesh present their budgets; West Bengal passes laws empowering municipal executives and moving towards a single market for agricultural produce; Karnataka replaces its 99-year lease on industrial…
By Sarah Watson — In his 2016 Budget Speech Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced a landmark change in the way India governs itself. He announced that over the next five years the central government would make grants totaling more than…
By Sharmila Bellur — Punjab state assembly elections were held on February 4, 2017, with results set to be announced March 11. Punjab, with a population of over 27.7 million, is famed for providing electricity to almost all the households…
Under the Obama — and perhaps the Trump — administration, the United States has looked to India to play a larger role as a security provider in the Indian Ocean region. India shares similar ambitions, seeing itself as a rising…
On March 11, Indian legislative assembly election results from five states — Goa, Manipur, Punjab, Uttarakhand, and Uttar Pradesh — will be announced to the public. Nearly 240 million Indians reside in this group of states alone. Policies the newly…