Christians to pray for Secular, Democratic India on Sunday
Thousands of christians from Delhi and surrounding areas will gather at Rajghat on Sunday to observe a day-long fast and will pray for strengthening the secular and democratic traditions of India.



Vittal targets `genes' to weed out corruption
Central Vigilance Commissioner N Vittal has drawn lessons from the human genome project for getting the ``bad genes in government identified and isolated'' in order to weed out corruption.



Gopal returns with another videotape
Journalist R.R. Gopal, negotiating the release of Kannada film icon Rajkumar and three others held hostage by forest brigand Veerappan, returned on Friday with yet another video cassette.



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