>>A report on Sangita Kalanidhi award (July 20) had said: “This is only the second time in its history that the Sangita Kalanidhi award is being presented to a duo following the 2002 award conferred on the Sikkil sisters.”
In 1930, the award was conferred upon Harikesanallur Muthiah Bhagavathar and B. Subba Rao.
(Refer: http/www.musicacademymadras.in/sangita_kalanidhi.php)
>>Sabina Alkire of the Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford, said:
In reply to the reader's query on the last reply of the interview on OP-Ed page [July 20] ‘Media hype and the reality of “new” India', I confirm that the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) of the Scheduled Castes is a bit better than Nigeria. The MPI of Scheduled Castes is 0.361 and the MPI of Nigeria is 0.368. The MPI of Niger is greater, at 0.642.
The MPI value reflects both the percentage of people who are MPI poor and the average intensity of their poverty. Sixty-six per cent of people in Scheduled Castes are MPI poor and are deprived in fifty-five per cent of the indicators on average. In Nigeria, sixty-four per cent of people are MPI poor and they are deprived in fifty-eight per cent of the indicators on average.
>>The correlative conjunction “either … or” was not placed appropriately in the Editorial, Terrible train accidents (July 20). A sentence in the editorial said: “…the driver of the Uttar Banga Express, who died in the collision, either disregarded the signal; or the signal failed.” This should have been: “… either the driver of the Uttar Banga Express, who died in the collision, disregarded the signal; or the signal failed.”
>>There was a reference to an organisation called Meitei Committee Moreh in our Imphal Correspondent's report, “Tension in Moreh over Meitei strike” (July 16). It should have been Meitei Council Moreh.
