In the report headlined “U.S. stand on Hizb chief alarming: Hurriyat chairman” (June 30, 2017), a quote attributed to Hurriyat chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said “the militaristic position taken by India on the Kashmir issue pushes south Kashmir to the brink ...” It should have been South Asia.

A sentence in “A controversial inheritance” (Editorial page article, June 27, 2017) that said “arbitrariness is the antithesis of inequality” should be corrected to read “arbitrariness is the antithesis of equality”.

In the Ground Zero feature, “The anonymous addicts” (June 24, 2017), there was a reference to pentothal — an opioid analgesic, a common painkiller. It should have been pentazocine.