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The sixth paragraph of a report “Congress expects a turnaround in U.P.” (May 3, 2009) said that in Lucknow, the Congress has fielded its State president Rita Bahuguna Joshi against Lal Krishna Advani of the Bharatiya Janata Party. The BJP has fielded senior party leader Lalji Tandon. (The Bahujan Samaj Party’s candidate is Akhilesh Das Gupta, who joined the party after quitting the Congress, while the Samajwadi Party’s candidate is Nafisa Ali.) Mr. Advani is contesting from the Gandhinagar constituency in Gujarat.

The seventh paragraph of a report “Congress sees hope in BJP citadel” (“Elections 2009” page, May 4, 2009) said that in the 1999 elections, Vasundhara Raje won the Jhalawar seat with a margin of 2.52 lakh votes.

In the same report, the accompanying graphic, and titled “Key Constituency/Jhalawar-Baran (Lok Sabha)”, said that Dushyant Singh won in 2004, defeating Sanjay Gurjar of the Congress by 1.76 lakh votes.

The Special Correspondent clarifies: In the 1999 elections, Vasundhara Raje (BJP) polled 4,09,575 votes against 2,57,159 votes polled by Abrar Ahmed of the Congress The margin is 1.52 lakh votes. In 2004, her son Dushyant Singh (BJP) polled 3,03,845 votes against 2,22,266 votes polled by Congress nominee Sanjay Gurjar. The margin is 81,579 votes.

A report “None of the 4 metros is disaster-proof, says expert” (May 2, 2009) said that the Koyna tremor was of a magnitude of 6.5 on December 10, 1967. A note by the National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, says: The Koyna earthquake of December 11, 1967, was of a magnitude of the order of 7.5 on the Richter scale and was recorded by the Indian Meteorological Department and the Central Water and Power Research Station.

The fourth paragraph of a report “Exports plummet 33% in March” (“Business” page, May 2, 2009) said that India’s imports in March 2009 witnessed a decline of 34 per cent to $155.61 billion. It should have been $15.56 billion.

Shahid Afridi scored the fastest ODI hundred in 1996 at Nairobi. A PTI report “Afridi refuses to part with lucky bat” (“Sport”, May 2, 2009) said that he hit the fastest hundred in ODI, in October 2006.

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