A front-page story, “ Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but it’s more than skin deep ” (Feb.19, 2017), erroneously stated that one of the participants, Simran Chawla, said she was rejected in a television contest. Actually, she had said: “I couldn’t apply due to the height criterion. They wanted girls with a minimum height of 5 ft 6 inches.”
Editing error: The concluding paragraph of the report headlined “As towering politicians exit, film stars write a new scipt” (some editions, Feb. 20, 2017) was erroneously attributed to Sashikumar, chairman, Media Development Foundation. Actually, the views were expressed by Suba Gunarajan, editor of film magazine Kaatchipizhai .
In the report headlined “ Poor connectivity hits border trade ” the sentences that read: “The trade balance was heavily in favour of India, with its exports of $6.03 billion to Bangladesh in FY’16. India’s imports amounted to $5.3 billion from that country” should be recast to read: “The trade balance was heavily in favour of India, with its exports of $6.03 billion to Bangladesh in FY’16 being $5.3 billion more than imports from that country during that fiscal period.”
“The power of five” (graphic story, some editions, Feb. 17, 2017) erroneously said that M. Thambidurai was elected to the Tamil Nadu Assembly from Erode in 1977. It was an editing error.
“ Sharath does a Houdini ” (Sport, Feb. 19, 2017) erroneously said Sharath won with the scoreline 11-4, 10-12, 9-11, 11-6, 9-11, 13-11. The right scoreline is 11-4, 10-12, 9-11, 11-6, 11-9, 9-11, 13-11.
