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The caption of the accompanying AFP photograph in the lead story “Ensure safety of Tamils at all costs: Manmohan [urges Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa]” (November 14, 2008, page 1) did not have the expansion of “BIMSTEC”. It is the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation. On June 6, 1997, a new sub-regional grouping was formed in Bangkok and given the name BIST-EC (Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, and Thailand Economic Cooperation). Myanmar joined the organisation as a full member on December 22, 1997, upon which the name was changed to BIMST-EC. Full membership has been granted to Nepal and Bhutan in 2003. In the first Summit on July 31, 2004, leaders of the group agreed that the name of the grouping should be BIMSTEC.

An article “How Roosevelt checked the Supreme Court during the Great Depression” (Op-Ed, November 14, 2008) said, in the sixth paragraph, that Roosevelt promoted this law in one of his “Fireside Chats” on the national radio to the nation on March 9, 1927. It should have been “Tuesday, March 9, 1937”. President Roosevelt’s 35 minute 28 second-long speech was called the “Fireside Chat on Reorganization of the Judiciary”.

A report “LTTE part of the problem: Swamy” (November 13, 2008) described Dr. Subramanian Swamy to be the former Union Minister for Law and Justice. The Janata Party clarifies that he was the Union Minister of Commerce, Law & Justice (1990-91).

A sentence in the last paragraph of a report “[Kerala High] Court moots insurance cover for all passengers” (Early editions, November 13, 2008) was “… Vehicles remained registered and insured in the name of employers and unless employees using the vehicles were not compulsorily covered by an insurance policy, the very purpose of insurance was defeated.” The word “not” defeats the very purpose of the Bench’s judgment!

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