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Browsing centres get a breather

Staff Reporter

CHENNAI: The city police have given Internet browsing centre owners time till February 28 to submit applications and get a licence for their establishments under the Tamil Nadu City Police Act (1888).

Shutters had come down on a number of browsing centres after many failed to respond to the police notification asking them to procure licence after complying with a long list of rules laid out in The Browsing Centre (Tamilnadu) Rules/Conditions of the City Police Act. The police issued the notification after an email threatening to blow up Parliament was traced to an Internet café in Tirunelveli last year.

Other than the identity of browsers, the police have also asked the owners of browsing centres to maintain log registers of browsers keep backup of logs and Internet records for at least six months.

Two fatally knocked down

Two persons on a two-wheeler were fatally knocked down by a school bus on Saturday evening near Guindy-Halda junction.

S. Anand (24) and his colleague Sarada (24), working with a typewriting manufacturing unit in Perumbakkam on ECR, were returning home after duty when a bus belonging to Annai Velankanni school, hit the two-wheeler from behind around 7.45 p.m. The duo fell off the vehicle and was run over by the bus, according to traffic police.

The victims succumbed to multiple injuries on the spot.

The driver was remanded to custody on Sunday.

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