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* * It’s Haflong district in North Cachar Hills district of Assam. The caption of a standalone photograph titled “Hoping for the best” (Early editions, October 5, 2009) had it as “Halflong town, the headquarters of the North Kachar Hills district”. (The photograph was of the “Hill Queen” train on its way to Haflong town.)

* * The expansion of OIC is the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, which is a grouping of 57 Islamic countries. A report “OIC appoints special envoy on Kashmir” (October 3, 2009, page 1) gave it as the Organisation of Islamic Countries.

* * The thirteenth paragraph of a report “Suicide attack at U.N. office in Islamabad” (“International” page, October 6, 2009) was “Since the Marriott bombing in September 2009, Pakistan-based U.N. organisations have taken extraordinary security precautions, including asking families of non-Pakistani staff to leave the country.” The Marriott bombing was in September 2008.

* * The first sentence in the column “Online and Off Line” (“Science journalism: role of training and experience”, October 5, 2009) should have read as: “In mid-September, two young men met me at my residence and introduced themselves as engineering (leather technology) students of Anna University.”

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