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* * Rajendra Pachauri is not a Nobel laureate as mentioned in a Mumbai report “Climate change: Pachauri to help out Maharashtra” (June 21, 2009). We repeat the clarification published on February 20, 2008, May 13, 2008 and June 12, 2008: “Merci Olsson, Marketing and Communications Manager, Nobelprize.org, Sweden (the official website of the Nobel Foundation) clarifies that the recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize was the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and not R.K. Pachauri. Mr. Pachauri participated in the award ceremony as a chairman of the IPCC. (The 2007 Peace Nobel was also shared by Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr.)”

* * Clue 11 Across (The Hindu Crossword 9565, June 22, 2009) went as “Terms star Agassi for one (5)”. The first word should have been “tennis”.

* * The first official summit of BRIC was held on June 16, 2009. The first paragraph of the RIA Novosti article “BRIC countries catch up and overtake G7” (Op-Ed, June 19, 2009) gave it as May 16.

* * A sentence in the fourth paragraph of an article “Barack Obama’s bitter medicine” (Op-Ed, June 19, 2009) was “Recent estimates suggest that the U.S. spends close to $700 billion a year on healthcare and almost 50 per cent more per person than the next most costly nation.” A reader points out that total spending was $2.4 trillion in 2007. Narayan Lakshman clarifies: The number I provided ($700bn) is the proportion of U.S. healthcare spend that “does nothing to improve Americans’ health outcomes”, according to Peter Orszag (quoting a study by Dartmouth College and others), writing for the Financial Times recently.

* * Enghelab (Freedom) Square, referred to in the sixth paragraph of a report “Khamenei orders probe into poll fraud charges” (June 16, 2009, page 1), in Farsi, means revolution and not freedom, which translates as azadi. There are two squares in central Tehran named Enghelab Square and Azadi Square. The rally, referred to in the report, passed through Enghelab (Revolution) square and ended at Azadi (Freedom Square) in Tehran.

* * In the Sunday Magazine (June 21, 2009), the lead article “NREGA: Breaking new ground” was continued on page 4. The continuation indicator on page 1 was inadvertently omitted.

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