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Corrections and clarifications

* In "Kerala for inclusion of Professional Colleges Act in the Ninth Schedule" (July 6, 2006), a reader points out that while the wording in the promo is "Seeks 50 per cent seats in non-minority, unaided colleges for socially, educationally, economic backward"; the text says "The Act reserves 50 per cent of the seats in non-minority unaided professional colleges for socially, educationally and economically backward sections of society and the physically handicapped." Again, why is there a comma after the word, "non-minority" in the promo and no comma after the word "non-minority" in the text, the reader asks. The mistakes in the promo are editing errors.

* The heading "Apex court rejects quota for Muslims" (July 6, 2006) is misleading. (The report was on the Supreme Court order on the Andhra Pradesh Government's decision to provide 5 per cent reservation to Muslims for admission to educational institutions in the State for 2006-2007). The Supreme Court has only rejected the request for modifying its earlier order. It had declined to stay the A.P. High Court order striking down the reservation.

* In "A `peacekeeping' mission goes wrong" (Op-Ed, July 6, 2006) the sentence was "Indeed, Britain's Defence Secretary John Reid until recently was so optimistic about the situation in Afghanistan that he virtually ruled out a combat role for British troops saying that they would only assist Afghan authorities in destroying the poppy crop." This gives the impression that he is still the defence secretary. The present Defence Secretary is Des Browne, whose name is mentioned later in the article.

* In the clarification on "Cryogenic stage to be tested" ("Corrections and Clarifications", July 5, 2006), readers have pointed out that "kelvin" should have been in lower case. A symbol for units, if it is derived from a proper name, should be printed in capital letters, while the complete name should start with lower case letter, and not capital. Also, with kelvin, the unit of temperarture measurement "degree" is not used; in the clarification issued, it should have been 20 kelvin and 80 to 90 kelvin.

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