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Corrections and Clarifications

Kapil Dev's Houdini act? A report on a meeting in Delhi, on Sunday, of the special committee of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (Sport, "Special committee's suggestions", March 27, 2006), mentions Kapil Dev having been present. This is correct. The text of another report (PTI) in the same issue, on the closing ceremony of the 19th Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, on Sunday (Newscape, "Showcasing India's cultural ethos"), also mentions Kapil Dev having been present. This information is incorrect.

A reader said that the expansion of wmf was Windows Meta file, and not Windows Media file, as the text said (Tamil Nadu, "Tamil music industry to embrace digital distribution", March 26, 2006). Anand Parthasarathy clarifies: "The author of the article and the reader are wrong. The format they are presumably looking for is wma or Windows Media Audio, which is Microsoft's latest audio format and an alternative to the MP3 music format. The reader is confusing it with an earlier format called wmf or Windows Meta file — a format to save pictures that is no longer in wide use. It has been overtaken by more popular formats like tiff and jpeg."

It was a standalone picture with the heading "Feast to the eyes" (Andhra Pradesh, March 28, 2006). A reader disagreed with the caption which said it was a scene of people watching a unique sunset between the Sir Arthur Cotton old bridge and the new rail-cum-road bridge across the Godavari at Rajahmundry. The structures in the picture are both rail bridges, he said. He is right. The rail-cum-road bridge is not seen in the picture.

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