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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.

19 October 2012 Supreme Court of Pakistan short order in the petition filed by Air Marshal (Retd) Muhammad Asghar Khan in 1996.

The attempted assassination of a 14-year-old girl was driven by pathological hatred of women – not politics, as the Taliban claim

The Kazmi Solidarity Committee welcomes the Supreme Court order granting bail to Syed Mohammad Ahmad Kazmi after seven months in custody on charges of involvement in the bomb attack on an Israeli diplomatic vehicle.