By Maya Iskandarani, Jonathan Gonzalez-Smith & Kartikeya Singh — In a landslide victory, Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) captured a majority in India’s Parliament and catapulted Modi to a second term as prime minister. During Modi’s first term, India…
By Kartikeya Singh — A final batch of five states held assembly elections in late 2018 before India’s general elections scheduled this year. Usually, in the lead up to elections, state governments are busy showcasing the work of their governments…
By Kartikeya Singh — Two hundred million people, or roughly 16 percent of India’s entire population, is in the process of electing their next representatives to five different state assemblies. In this final round of state assembly elections before the…
In this episode, we discuss energy cooperation in the U.S.-India relationship. Achieving two diverging goals for energy engagement in the relationship – deepening and broadening renewables cooperation while India is importing U.S. oil and gas – will likely require a…
By Anit Mukherjee & Kartikeya Singh — With national elections a year away, the outcome of the state assembly elections in Karnataka are being closely watched, both in India and abroad. Karnataka was the largest source of Bharatiya Janata Party…
By Kartikeya Singh — This month, three of India’s “seven sisters” states (Tripura, Meghalaya and Nagaland), those located in the country’s ethnically distinct northeast, head to the polls. Situated in a region long plagued by security challenges and poor infrastructure,…
In the latest Energy 360° podcast, our CSIS Energy and National Security program turns the focus to cooperation between the United States and India. The Trump Administration has announced India a prominent partner in its foreign policy plans for the Asian continent.…
By Kartikeya Singh — To observers of the political theater in India’s eastern state of Bihar, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s dramatic July 25 decision to trade his party’s alliance with the left-wing Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) for one with the…
By Jennifer Richhmond & Kartikeya Singh — We present results below from a survey of shop owners who are part of the Indian government’s Akshay Urja Solar Shops program. To our knowledge, the Akshay Urja program has not previously been…
By Kartikeya Singh — India’s state power ministers convened in Delhi recently for an unusual group meeting. The event had a dual purpose: partly to celebrate how far India has come in rebuilding its power sector, and partly to lay…
