At the MIOT Hospital, 14 patients died after power and oxygen supplies failed. With a letup in rainfall, floodwaters gradually began to recede in Chennai on 4 December, though 40 percent of the city's districts remained submerged and safe food and drinking water remained in short supply.
A currency symbol is a graphic symbol used as a shorthand for a currency 's name, especially in reference to amounts of money.he European Commission considers the global recognition of the euro sign â¬ part of its success. In 2009, India launched a public competition to replace the â¨ ligature it shared with neighboring countries. It finalized its new currency symbol, â¹ (â¹) on 15 July 2010.
Money today is fiat money, a symbol of value created by the human imagination with no intrinsic value of its own. A coin or paper currency note has value because people accept it as a symbolic medium of exchange. The economic value of money as measured by its purchasing power is a subject of economic theory. However economics does not explain how individual human beings and societies came to accept symbolic money as a medium of exchange or store of value. The process of according value to a symbol is psychological and social.