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If only Savarkar’s bodyguard and his secretary had testified against him in court, he would have been convicted for Gandhi’s murder.

On 19 October 2012 the Supreme Court of India granted bail to Kazmi, while ordering him to deposit his passport and not leave the country. In an early reaction, "The [Kazmi Solidarity Committee] deplores the obstructive attitude of the prosecution and the Special Cell of the Delhi Police, which have been perversely attempting to keep Mr. Kazmi in prison despite their inability to file a chargesheet within the extended time granted under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act."

Order given by Supreme court of India on19th Oct 2012 granting bail to Journalist Syed Mohammad Ahmad Kazmi

Neoliberalism takes on a variety of national and subnational forms. In the case of India this has necessitated a shift from the role of the state as provider under Nehruvian socialism, to the role of the state as a champion for private investment and market penetration. The role of the state in this process is varied at the federal and local levels, and in different sectors of the economy and society. Attempts to transform Delhi are driven by the desire to fashion a ‘global city’, set out explicitly in the Delhi Development Authority’s Master plan for Delhi 2021, released in 2007. The global city aspiration has necessitated a shift in urban logic resulting in the privileging of planned and profit making uses of space and the vilification of informality. The poor, including the working poor, are seen as threats to the sanitised spaces of the global city.

With the Australian labor party poised to take a decision this morning on whether to export uranium to India, People for Nuclear Disarmament, Australias oldest nuclear disarmament lobby group, has warned that whatever safeguards are applied, the export of Australian uranium to India will free up unsafeguarded Indian uranium to be used for weapons purposes.