In a front-page report headlined “Why are media regulators soft with scribes, asks SC” (Oct. 23, 2018) the expansion of NBSA and IBF were wrongly given as National Broadcasting Standards Authority and Indian Broadcasting Federation . They should have been News Broadcasting Standards Authority and Indian Broadcasting Foundation .
The opening sentence of “How queer-friendly is your medic” (Metroplus Health, Oct. 22, 2018) described a transman as a woman who identifies as a man . It should have been assigned female at birth, but identifies as male .
Here is a clarification on the article “NCCR develops system to estimate, predict flooding within Chennai” (Oct. 21, 2018, S&T page), based on a communication from Subimal Ghosh (Associate Professor, IIT Bombay), who is the project leader for the Chennai flood warning system:
The project was funded by the Office of the Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India. IIT Bombay led the project with IIT Madras, IRS (Anna University), IISc Bangalore, National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting, National Centre for Coastal Research (NCCR), India Meteorological Department, Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services and IITB as team members. The core operational system has six modules that were developed and validated by different participating institutes.
The integration of the six modules was performed by IITB and all the codes developed by IITB were transferred to NCCR. Such a system needs to be maintained on a long term basis, and NCCR took the responsibility. NCCR developed the web-GIS based interface C-FLOWS to disseminate the product to the stakeholders.
