Modern techniques enable faster crime detection in Chandigarh

September 28th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Nine people including three women, all from prominent families, were arrested here on charges of gambling, police said Monday. The nine men and women were carrying over Rs.900,000 when they were arrested late Sunday from a house in Sector 19, the police claimed.

September 16th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Drug related crimes have gone down significantly in the union territory of Chandigarh in 2009 due to various measures adopted by the city police, officials said here Wednesday. "To tackle the menace of drug peddlers, the special crime investigation cell devised this strategy.

September 7th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Possible involvement of some education department officials with two touts arrested Saturday night for offering to get a woman a teacher's post for a bribe of Rs.400,000 is being investigated, officials said. Education secretary-cum-vigilance officer of Chandigarh Ram Niwas told IANS Monday: "Police investigation in this case is in progress.

September 6th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Two men were arrested here for promising a woman a teacher's job in the Chandigarh education board in lieu of a Rs.400,000 bribe, police said Sunday. The accused have been identified as Jolly, a Chandigarh resident, and Hardev Singh, a resident of Kharar town in Punjab, some 20 km from here.

August 18th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Twelve tonnes of edible oil worth Rs.550,000 was seized from a house as officials of the food and supplies department of Chandigarh Tuesday carried out a drive against the hoarding of essential commodities. "We conducted a raid on a tip-off and recovered 12 tonnes of edible oil from a house here in Sector 40.

August 14th, 2009 LONDON - A team of historical experts is all set to go back to the roots of boat building using Bronze Age tools to carve a replica of a Bronze Age longboat using 3,000 yr old techniques. The replica is being based on the original Carpow longboat discovered in Loch Tay in Scotland.

July 31st, 2009 CHANDIGARH - The Chandigarh administration has asked the owners of all hotels, restaurants, cinemas and multiplexes to install CCTV cameras in their premises for enhancing security. "In the wake of recent terror attacks in the country and secret inputs received from intelligence agencies, the district magistrate has issued these orders.

July 23rd, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Police in this union territory are going all out to help senior citizens driving on the city roads. Senior citizens will be given unique stickers for police to identify "them from a distance...

July 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The government has cleared a project to interconnect 14,000 police stations and 6,000 police officers across the county for speedy investigation of crime and detection of criminals in real time, parliament was informed Wednesday. The government has given clearance to the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems project.

July 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Manoj Bakarwara, who was wanted in over 100 cases of car thefts and had twice escaped police custody, has been arrested in the capital, Delhi Police Commissioner Y.S. Dadwal said here Wednesday.

July 10th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Five youths from Chandigarh involved with an inter-state auto lifting racket were arrested after a brief shootout in Uttar Pradesh's Saharanpur district, police said Friday. "The five, who are in the 18-20 age group, were arrested Thursday night from a hideout in the Saklapuri town in Saharanpur," police inspector Hukum Singh told IANS over the telephone.

July 8th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A team of researchers at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB) have come up with a device called a dc metamaterial, which makes objects invisible under certain light. The device does so, according to the researchers, under very low frequency electromagnetic waves by making the inside of the magnetic field zero, but not altering the exterior field.

June 30th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Four people were arrested here Tuesday with arms and cash, police said, adding that they were members of an inter-state gang of highway robbers operating in Chandigarh, Punjab, Haryana and Delhi. Four revolvers, 25 live cartridges, a Maruti Swift car and Rs.464,000 in cash were recovered from them, police said.

June 9th, 2009 LONDON - A Brit cosmologist suggests that scientists searching for aliens in space instead focus their hunt on the Earth itself. Prof Paul Davies has said that the extraterrestrial creatures would be totally different from life that exists on our planet.

June 3rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - A renowned scholar has cast doubts on the efficiency of new lie-detection methods. The conventional truth-seeking technologies have been replaced by new brain-based techniques such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and the electroencephalography(EEG)-based technology known as Brain Fingerprinting(r).