* Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a telegram to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President APJ Abdul Kalam Sunday conveying his condolences over Saturday's attacks in crowded areas of India's capital Delhi, in which three powerful blasts left around 60 people dead. The president called the attacks "pointless and inhuman acts of terrorism."
* China could give Russia an export loan to build a floating energy unit for the nuclear power plant being constructed in Severodvinsk in Russia's European Far North, a source in the Russian delegation currently visiting Beijing said Sunday.
* Over a thousand people gathered in central Moscow to remember victims of political repression in Russia, the Interior Ministry said Sunday.
* Russian tennis player Nadezhda Petrova beat Swiss player Patty Schnyder Sunday to win the Generali Ladies Linz tournament in Austria.
