Two Nepalese held with fake currency notes in Bihar

October 7th, 2009 KATHMANDU - Nepal says they have no idea about the criminal life led by Abdul Majid Siddiqui - also known as Majid Maniyar - who, according to the Indian police headed a fake Indian currency and arms smuggling network in Nepal and was allegedly an operative of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence. "We have no official information about Maniyar," Nepal's home ministry spokesman Jaya Mukunda Khanal said Wednesday, 48 hours after Maniyar was found murdered in a hotel room in southern Nepal along the India-Nepal border.

September 21st, 2009 BEIJING - The Chinese police have arrested 2,830 people suspected of fake invoice trading and confiscated more than 47 million such invoices during a three-month national campaign against invoice fraud. These suspects were involved in 1,658 cases, a report said Monday.

September 9th, 2009 KATHMANDU - Nepal Prime Minister Madhav Kumar has said his government is really concerned about the Fake Indian Currency Note (FICN) racket and would take proper action against anyone who indulges in the practice. Talking to reporters in Birganj in the Terai plains near the Indo-Nepalese border, Nepal said, "We are really concerned about this racket and if anyone uses our land to supply fake currency into India, we will take proper action." "Any unlawful activities detrimental to the interest of our neighbouring country will not be allowed," he added.

September 4th, 2009 KATHMANDU - Nepal's former Crown Prince Paras Shah has refuted the Indian media reports that suggest that he is involved in a Fake Indian Currency Note (FICN) racket. In a press statement, Paras, who was in Singapore recently, has condemned the reports as' false and malicious.' Paras said he was seriously concerned about these fictitious reports that were published in Indian media against him, which was 'spreading illusions inside the minds of Nepali people.

September 2nd, 2009 KATMANDU/DELHI - Nepal Government officials on Wednesday said they cannot take any action in the Fake Indian Currency Note (FICN) racket against anyone, including former Crown Prince Paras, unless India lodges a formal complaint. Taking note of the FICN issue, sources said the government has said that they will try to do their best to crack down heavily on those involved in this racket, but cannot take any action against unless India lodges a formal complaint against it.

August 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Nepali nationals caught by the Madhya Pradesh ATS in connection with fake currency racket have revealed Nepal's former prince Paras's link to India's most wanted terrorist Dawood Ibrahim. Paras is the son of the former Nepal king Gyanendra, who has now taken refuge in Singapore.

August 17th, 2009 WASHINGTON - You may be carrying a whiff of cocaine in your wallet, purse or pocket if you have US bank notes. In what researchers describe as the largest, most comprehensive analysis to date of cocaine contamination in bank notes, scientists are reporting that cocaine is present in up to 90 percent of US bank notes.

August 13th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Currency worth Rs.1.2231 trillion ($15 billion) is circulating in Pakistan in the form of 4.1588 billion notes, the National Assembly, the lower house of parliament, was informed Thursday. State Bank of Pakistan and commercial banks had foreign exchange reserves of $11.68 billion as on Aug 4, Finance Minister Shaukat Tareen said in a written reply.

August 11th, 2009 KATHMANDU - Nepalese women staged a protest here on Monday against government plans to pay men to marry widows. Agency reports said the government plans to introduce a 50,000-rupee grant for marriages involving a widow.

July 10th, 2009 2SUD9 Nepal-Crime/Economy Indians losing millions due to Nepal currency ban From Indo-ASIAN NEWS SERVICE KATHMANDU - Delhi-bound Anil Kumar Sharma had a traumatic experience in Nepal during his recent visit. The 40-year-old was stopped from boarding his flight at Kathmandu?s Tribhuvan International Airport on June 30 and instead interrogated by Nepal?s Revenue Investigation Department (RID).

July 10th, 2009 KATHMANDU - Delhi-bound Anil Kumar Sharma had a traumatic experience in Nepal during his recent visit. The 40-year-old was stopped from boarding his flight at Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport June 30 and instead interrogated by Nepal's Revenue Investigation Department (RID).

July 5th, 2009 DHAKA - Bangladesh plans to have the portrait of its founding father, slain former president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on all currency notes, its finance minister said Sunday. The minister, A.M.A.

June 30th, 2009 KATHMANDU - An Indian man was arrested from Nepal's sole international airport in Kathmandu Tuesday. According to police, Anil Kumar Sharma, who checked in at the Tribhuvan International Airport in the morning to catch an Indian Airlines flight to New Delhi, was arrested after security forces found 140 currency notes of the denomination of Rs.1,000 each from his hand bag.

June 16th, 2009 SAHARSA - A village in Bihar, ravaged by the 2008 devastating floods, has been restored with the help of Haryana. Haryana Chief Minister Bhupendra Singh Hooda, accompanied by his Bihar counterpart Nitish Kumar, inaugurated the Sahpurmusahari village in Saharsa district on Monday.

June 9th, 2009 KATHMANDU - Indian Ambassador to Nepal Rakesh Sood said on Tuesday that a joint committee is working towards finalisation of a boundary map between India and Nepal to resolve the border issue that has long been in contention. "The technical-level committee is working towards finalisation of the map," Rakesh Sood said.