PM, Obama agree on terror
Expressing satisfaction over the outcome of the G-20 summit, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh ruled out the possibility of India approaching the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to grapple with the economic crisis.

‘Pak sees India as main threat’
World page: G20 leaders seal new deal
Man dies in G-20 protests
Don’t repeat mistakes: PM

Manmohanspeak Vignettes Blueprint Prime Minister Manmohan Singh shakes hands with US President Barack Obama. — AFP

’84 Riots
CBI gives clean chit to Tytler
New Delhi, April 2
The CBI today gave a clean chit to Jagdish Tytler, Congress candidate for the North-east Delhi Lok Sabha seat, by “recommending no action” against him in a 1984 riots case relating to an arson attempt at a gurdwara here.

Nation page: Sikh backlash may spoil Cong poll prospects
Protest against clean chit to Tytler

Protesters raise slogans outside the AICC office in New Delhi on Thursday. Tribune photo: Mukesh Aggarwal

No respite from ragging: ASG to SC
New Delhi, April 2
Additional Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium today informed the Supreme Court that incidents of campus ragging were continuing unabated despite its series of directives to the authorities to curb the menace.

Pappu fail ho gaya
Patna HC rules out RJD MP’s poll chances
Patna, April 2
After Sanjay Dutt, it was the turn of Pappu Yadav , the controversial RJD MP from Bihar’s Madhepura constituency, to get a jolt. Convicted and sentenced for life term imprisonment on the charge of conspiring the murder of Ajit Sarkar, the then CPM MLA from Purnea.

13-year wait over for Dabwali fire victims
Sirsa, April 2
After a tormenting wait for thirteen years of a worst fire accident and six years of setting up of the Justice TP Garg Commission of inquiry by the Punjab and Haryana High Court to ascertain the quantum of compensation and fixing liability for that, the victims have finally got the final report of the commission in their hands.

Afghan drug trade is Taliban’s lifeline
New Delhi, April 2
You can’t fight the Taliban without cutting its lifeline - the Afghan drug trade worth $ 730 million. The assessment of Indian intelligence agencies is that the Taliban’s attack on Lahore’s police training school on Monday was the result of the ‘provocation’ caused by American decision to pump huge financial and military aid into Pakistan and Afghanistan in its war against terror.

BJP manifesto may contain core agenda
New Delhi, April 2
The BJP is returning to its three core Hindutva issues, namely construction of Ram temple at the site of the demolished Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, Uniform Civil Code and abolition of Article 370 giving special status to Jammu and Kashmir, after a gap of 11 years, when it releases its manifesto here tomorrow.

POLLS 2009 SAD-BJP wants EC to review its orders Chandigarh, April 2 “Fear psychosis is haunting the minds of field officers in Punjab that unless they win favours with former Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and his party candidates, they would be proceeded against and transferred even without being given a chance to explain their conduct” is the gist of the protest note the joint leadership of the SAD and the BJP submitted to the Chief Electoral Officer here today.

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