SALEM: “The difference between a good and a bad touch should be understood. A bad touch which makes you feel confused and uncomfortable should be discouraged and parents should be informed about it”.

This was the basic objective that was highlighted in the awareness campaign against child abuse organised jointly by Salem City Ladies Circle No.42 and Tulir, Chennai to mark the World Day for Prevention of Child Abuse here on Wednesday.

Collector J. Chandrakumar having a look at the posters on child abuse at an awareness campaign in Salem on Wednesday.

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CHENNAI: A 70-year-old woman who survived an accident was run over by an MTC bus near Teynampet on Wednesday morning, even as she was getting up from the road after she was hit by a two-wheeler.

The deceased, later identified as Ranganayagi, was working as a house maid. She was first knocked down by a two-wheeler when she tried to cross the road. She suffered minor injuries and was trying to get up from the road when an MTC bus hit her and ran over her, killing her on the spot.

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LONDON: British consular officials across the world are wrongly approving nearly 300,000 visas to visit Britain every year.

The revelation, which was made during a presentation to the Home Affairs Committee here, has sparked a round of criticism of the Labour government’s immigration policy.

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CHENNAI: Bomb threats at three schools and one college in the city kept the police on their toes on Tuesday.
Though police conducted thorough checks in the schools, anxious parents took their children back home, forcing the school authorities to declare a holiday.

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CHENNAI: The city corporation’s ambitious project to make available all civic services online has gone down well with citizens across all age groups. But not with some prominent city schools, which reject application forms attached with online birth certificates.

School authorities insist that parents should produce the ‘original’ certificates as proof of age while taking application forms and attach attested photocopies of the original while they are being submitted.

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CHENNAI: Flying into Chennai will no longer be expensive for airlines and time-consuming for passengers, as the Airports Authority of India (AAI) is all set to make the airport one among the most fuel-efficient destinations in the country.

At a time when airlines and airports have started to feel the impact of economic slowdown, AAI has decided to tweak air traffic control procedures to cut down air traffic congestion and avoid delays in landing of aircraft at Chennai airport.

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Chennai (PTI): Price of urad dal moved up while all other commodities ruled steady in the wholesale foodgrains market here on Thursday.

Urad dal moved up by Rs.50 per quintal to Rs.3,750 against the previous rate of Rs.3,700.

Thoor dal, moong dal, gram dal, sugar, wheat, maida and sooji remained unchanged.

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Chennai (PTI): Following are the wholesale prices of vegetables at the Koyambedu market here on Thursday.

Rates quoted per Kg:

Brinjal Rs 8.00, Common Hedge 6.00 Cucumber Rs 8.00, Field Beans Rs 22.00, Snake Gourd Rs 7.00, Yam Rs 8.00, Kales Root Rs 10.00, Drumstick Rs 15.00, Bitter Gourd Rs 10.00

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CHENNAI: In a significant improvement over the performance recorded in recent years, 90.71% of the 48,249 school students who appeared for the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Plus Two examinations this year emerged successful in the Chennai region.

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CHENNAI: Chennai is a gourmet’s delight. Everyone from the construction worker to the chief executive eats out with the difference being in the ambience, choice in ‘a la carte’ and of course the price. However, the spiraling cost, which began in April, has impacted on both the gourmand and the man who eats on the roadside ‘thattu kadai’ just to survive.

Raghavendar, an epicurean, did the unthinkable when he took his family to a fine dining restaurant. He read out the price, instead of discussing the menu."My family was horrified at my behavior, but with the steep increase in prices, I cannot help keep a tab on how much we spend," he adds.

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