G-20: Impose restrictions at your own risk, warns PM
In a full page interview in the Financial Times, the only full-fledged interview with any of the leaders participating in the G20 summit here, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh cautioned world leaders against following “protectionist policies” in the form of imposing barriers to trade and restrictions on movement of people.

London Diary

Meeting of minds: Prime Minister and British PM Gordon Brown, both economists, reviewed bilateral ties, urgency for a transparent banking system and need to deal with terrorism firmly at 10 Downing Street, London, on Wednesday. — Reuters

Congress minister’s aide threatened
me: Dutt
New Delhi, April 1
Political partings are known to be bitter, but the one between the Samajwadi Party and the Congress hit a record low today, with the SP charging the Congress with threatening their protégé Sanjay Dutt against joining ranks with them and contesting on their ticket.

Rajdoots in the sky!
New VVIP jets to ferry PM, President inducted
New Delhi, April 1
The President and the Prime Minister of the country will now fly around in style on their official visits. New aircrafts with the latest communication aids and a security protection suite on board, among other paraphernalia, were formally inducted here this morning.

Double whammy for Rodrigues
MHA again directs restoration of Mehra’s ACR powers; questions legal opinion
Chandigarh, April 1
Punjab Governor and UT Administrator Gen SF Rodrigues (retd) has suffered more setbacks in his ongoing war against Adviser Pradip Mehra.

Varun shifted to Etah jail
Lucknow, April 1
The Mayawati government today denied that the midnight shifting of Varun Gandhi from Pilibhit to Etah jail had anything to do with threats from terrorists. “Today there was a call for Pilibhit bandh.

Cash Row
Jaswant under EC scanner
Jaipur, April 1
With video footage showing that a woman was indeed offered monetary assistance in BJP candidate Manvendra Singh’s rally at Gagaria village in Barmer Lok Sabha seat, 550 km from here, trouble seems to be brewing for his father and senior BJP leader Jaswant Singh.

Anjali defies Sena
Agrees to defend Kasab
Mumbai, April 1
One day after activists of the Shiv Sena threatened her at her residence, Anjali Waghmare, the lawyer appointed by the Maharashtra government, agreed to defend Mohammad Ajmal Amir, alias Kasab, the lone terrorist involved in the November 26 Mumbai attacks to be taken alive.

Bathinda Refinery Debts forcing Mittal to pull out? New Delhi, April 1 Insufficient sops may not be the only reason behind Lakshmi N Mittal’s threat to stop work at the refinery in Bathinda, Punjab. For, sources point out, the steel czar might be doing so due to his company’s mounting debts, with the bankers who used to fund his acquisitions in the past now facing crisis themselves.

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