Delhi Business Information Directory

In India, the transformation of Delhi Ridge from a site of working-class politics to a site of breezy recreation shows how a world-class megacity is made under the spell of neoliberalism. Workers are pushed to the side in order to make way for the affluent classes.

Haryana begins culling 1.6 lakh poultry birds at Panchkula; nearly 4 lakh died of bird flu in this region last month.

Traumatised by communal violence in their own countries, Somali and Ethiopian refugees sought peaceful lives in India, but now fear racist and religious taunts and possible brutality.

Successive accounts have pinned the beginning of the violence on incendiary speeches made by BJP leaders Kapil Mishra, Anurag Thakur and Parvesh Verma.

Lawyers have welcomed the move as a good first step, but want more information about how cases would be committed to the courts.

By granting the infamous Delhi police the power to determine the legitimacy of survivors’ claims, the Delhi government’s compensation scheme allows prejudice and creates perfect conditions for the denial of justice. 

People can now send in their submissions to the committee by February 10. 

"After going through the bail applications, reply and particularly the charge sheet, I cannot help but notice the carelessness with which the charge sheet has been prepared and filed," Justice Amitabh Rawat said.

The Centre and farmers' representatives are to meet today.

The next round of talks between the government and the protesting farmer unions is scheduled to be held on January 4.

Five tenants and one landlord have approached the Delhi high court asking it to direct the state government to fulfil a ‘legitimate expectation’ promised by the chief minister.

Under the scheme, dry ration kits containing wheat, rice, pulses and oil will be provided to all eligible students of Classes 1-8 in the Delhi government schools.

Pracha is the lawyer in the headlines, in the viral videos. He is the lawyer who addressed Shaheen Bagh. He is the lawyer with political ambitions, or a savior complex.

According to Pracha's colleagues, the police action goes against the Advocates Act and the privilege which is accorded to an advocate-client relationship under the Indian Evidence Act, 1872.

A case can be made that despite everything India has been through this year, her conscience is still very much alive.

Ishrat Jahan, for one, has said she was beaten up by fellow inmates when she attempted to pray in the morning. The Mandoli Jail authorities have agreed with her account.

Hundreds of protesters blocked the highway in protest amid heavy deployment of police personnel.

For the past nine months, Mohammad Imran has been caught in a cycle of pain and harassment after being shot during the riots that broke out in Delhi earlier this year.

The undergraduate students secured bail from a local court in Imphal in view of their upcoming semester exams.

The Delhi government has told the high court that the couple will be provided with a safe house and police security, if required.

The Wire interacted with several such students at the Delhi border.

Among those stopped were Umar Khalid's family members.

Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Arun Kumar Garg acquitted all 36 foreigners from 14 countries of all charges.

A well known farmers' leader told The Wire that the only reason that Gujarat farmers were not able to protest against the farm laws was strict police surveillance that made it difficult to leave the state.

The Delhi police asserted that the "narrative" pointing fingers at BJP leader Kapil Mishra for starting riots was false, and was only based on media reports.