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* * In the report "State to press for final order on Cauvery dispute" (Karnataka edition, April 27, 2006, page 1, and on inside pages elsewhere), the reference to the setting up of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal by the Supreme Court in 1991 was wrong. The Tribunal was set up by the Union Government on the directions of the Supreme Court, and this was done in 1990. Also, the sentence, "This, incidentally, has been the line taken by the other riparian States: Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry and Kerala", referring to the need for the Tribunal to give its final order at the earliest, is misleading. All the riparian States came out with a joint statement on April 21 requesting the Tribunal to give its final award "as soon as possible."

* * April 22 is not Earth Day, says a reader, referring to the caption of the standalone picture "All for the earth" ("Newscape", April 23, 2006). (The picture showed a group of schoolchildren taking part in a run, in New Delhi, to mark the day.) The reader's confusion arises because: 1. The equinoctial Earth Day, also International Earth Day, is celebrated on the vernal equinox to mark the precise moment that spring begins in the Northern Hemisphere and autumn in the Southern Hemisphere. On equinox, night and day are in equal length anywhere on Earth. The United Nations celebrates Earth Day each year on the vernal equinox (around March 21). On February 26, 1971, U.N. Secretary-General U Thant signed a proclamation to that effect. 2. There is also the April 22 Earth Day. In January 1970, the organisers of what began as an "Environmental Teach-In" on America's university campuses, decided to call their one-off event held on April 22nd, Earth Day. The day's success led to it becoming a regular event. Senator Gaylord Nelson, an environmental activist in the U.S. Senate, took a leading role in organising the celebration, to demonstrate popular political support for an environmental agenda. 3. The United Nations, under the auspices of the U.N. Environment Programme, has observed World Environment Day (sometimes called Earth Day) on June 5 since 1972.

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