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* * Tahawwur Rana is a Pakistan-born Canadian, and not a Canadian born Lashkar-e-Taiba operative as mentioned in the fourth paragraph of a report “Nuclear installations safe: Manmohan” (November 18, 2009).

* * The second paragraph of a report “Coordinated anti-naxal operations planned” (November 20, 2009) was “Speaking to The Hindu, Jarkhand Director-General of police Bhupinder Singh said the Jharkhand Police approached the West Bengal Police for conducting operation along the flanks of the inter-State border to control Maoist movement.” The unedited sentence was “Speaking to The Hindu the State police’s Director General, Bhupinder Singh, said that the Jharkhand Police had approached the West Bengal Police ….” The dateline of the report is Kolkata and Bhupinder Singh is the Director General of Police of the State (West Bengal).

* * The last paragraph of a report “Mobile users advised to shun illegal handsets” (Some Andhra Pradesh editions, November 20, 2009, page 4) was “To check the genuineness of the [unique 15-digit International Mobile Equipment Identification - IMEI] number, one should send a SMS to 57886 with the IMEI number.” A few readers said that there was no message even after they had sent an SMS. (The report was based on a media conference by the Indian Cellular Association – ICA.) The ICA clarifies that the number is right and that the SMS reply will provide the brand name and model number for which the IMEI number was originally allotted. If a subscriber faces problems with a branded handset, he/she should get in touch with the manufacturer of the handset or the service provider. (The ICA says it is the apex body of the mobile industry comprising brand owners, technology providers, manufacturers, national distributors, application, solution and VAS providers, ethical retailers and consumers of mobile handsets.)

* * The third paragraph of a report “Laser-assisted spine surgery” (Coimbatore, November 18, 2009, page 2) was “But, she was brought to KMCH [Kovai Medical Centre and Hospital] where a magnetic resonance imaging revealed a large disc prolapse and it was compressing the nerve route.” It’s “nerve root”.

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* * The second paragraph of a Chennai report “Nobel laureate hopes this century will be as exciting for science as the last one” (Chennai, November 18, 2009, page 8) implied that Dr. Gerardus’t Hooft was the sole recipient of the Physics Nobel in 1999. It was shared by physicist Gerardus’t Hooft (Utrecht University Utrecht, the Netherlands) and Martinus J.G. Veltman (Bilthoven, the Netherlands) “for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics”.

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