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Corrections and Clarifications

Many readers found it odd. In an AFP report "English words feature increasingly in French" ("Newscape" page, March 15, 2007), the first paragraph was: "Despite England's famous pride in its culture and language, more English words have entered the French language in the past decade than in the preceding century, a French government official conceded in an interview published on Wednesday." It should have been "Despite France's famous pride in its culture and language ... ."

The expression is suo motu (on its own motion), and not suo muto as in the article "In Pakistan, waiting for a political tsunami" (Editorial page, March 14, 2007).

The heading of a report was: "Huge tax evasion in two alumina firms" (Andhra Pradesh, March 14, 2007, page 4). It should have been "Huge tax evasion in two aluminium firms". The text stated that the two companies were dealing in aluminium products. Aluminium is a reactive metal that is difficult to extract from the ore, aluminium oxide. Aluminium oxide is a chemical compound of aluminium and oxygen. It is also commonly referred to as alumina in mining, ceramic and materials science communities.

"This Day that Age — from the pages of The Hindu dated March 14, 1957" (March 14, 2007) giving details of the Assembly elections ("Congress win in 3 States") had these sentences: "With only 29 seats to be filled (in Kerala), the party (Congress) has so far secured only 35 seats. Sixty-four seats are required for an overall majority ... The Communist Party is trailing with 45 seats, thus needing 19 more for an absolute majority." The word "trailing" leaves readers in doubt. These sentences are reproduced as they appeared 50 years ago. It can only be interpreted as trailing behind the absolute majority mark. The Communist Party won 60 seats and formed the government in Kerala with the help of five independents.

In "Briefly" (March 11, 2007, page 1) under "Sena candidate elected Mayor", the sentence in the PTI report was "Ms. Raul, who polled 117 votes, defeated her Congress rival Sheetal Mhatre by seven votes." In the same issue, a report by our Special Correspondent, "Sena woman elected Mayor", stated that Raul polled 117 votes against Ms. Mhatre's 100 and that the municipal corporation of Mumbai and nine other cities had gone to the polls on February 1 to elect 227 members. Arunkumar Bhatt clarifies that Dr. Shubha Raul of the Shiv Sena polled 117 votes as against 100 votes of her rival, Ms. Sheetal Mhatre of the Congress and won by the margin of 17 votes, as the story "Sena woman elected Mayor" stated, and not by seven votes as reported by PTI. The Municipal Corporation of Mumbai, with 227 elected members, had gone to the polls with nine other cities of Maharashtra on February 1 last.

A few sports page corrections. In a report "Sharath gets it right, regains title" (March 14, 2007), the scores, in both the text and the results section, in the final between A. Sharath Kamal and Subhajit Saha were incomplete. It should have been 7-11, 11-9, 11-7, 11-6, 6-11, 11-8, and not 7-11, 11-9, 11-7, 6-11, 11-8, as was published.

In a report "Milestones in the making" (March 14, 2007), a sentence was: "Ponting, who enjoys a cent per cent captaincy record, winning all 11 matches during the 2002-03 World Cup, ... ". The PTI report said 2002-03. The World Cup was held in 2003.

The caption of the accompanying photograph in a report "Ponting in full flow; slams century" (March 15, 2007) was: "Ricky Ponting lit up his team's [Australia] title defence with a century and in the process also became the first person to score 1000 runs in World Cups." The text stated that Ponting has joined Sachin Tendulkar, Javed Miandad, Mark Waugh, Aravinda de Silva and Viv Richards in the elite 1000-run club. The text is right and it was an error in the caption. Ponting is the sixth batsman to cross 1000 runs.

In "Spinners strike for Kenya against Canada" (March 14, 2007), a report on the opening Group `C' World Cup match between Canada and Kenya, off-spinner Jimmy Kamande took two for 25 as mentioned in the scoreboard, and not two for 15 as stated in the text.

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