Five held for lottery scam in DelhiOctober 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Five people, including three Nigerians, were arrested for swindling people of millions of rupees in a lottery scam, police said Monday. According to police, Nigerians Sylvester Jackson Aigboh, Odibo Ahabua, Ukato Young Ben and their Indian accomplices Farizul Haq and Naresh Kumar would make phone calls or send text messages to people telling them that they have won lottery in Britain.
First-of-their-kind tombs with skeletons of children unearthed in SyriaOctober 11th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A Syrian-Japanese archaeological mission has unearthed a number of individual tombs with skeletons of children inside, and the hole of the grave inside the tomb, in Palmyra, Syria, which is the first of its kind to be discovered in the region. The mission also unearthed an earthenware jar with a skeleton of an infant inside.
Man held with fake currency in DelhiOctober 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A 24-year-old man has been arrested here with fake Indian currency with nominal value of Rs.44,350, police said Thursday. Alok Kumar Singh, who hails from Bihar, was arrested Wednesday from near an ice cream booth in Patparganj in east Delhi, and the fake currency notes in the denomination of Rs.50 and Rs.100 were seized from him.
Fake Indian currency detected in Delhi bankSeptember 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Fake Indian currency nominally worth Rs.700,000 was detected at a Citi Bank branch in the national capital, police said Friday. Citi Bank's Connaught Place branch manager G.S.
'Ex-Nepal prince involved in fake currency racke'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.
Uttar Pradesh accounts for highest fake shootoutsAugust 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - More than 100 fake shootout cases were registered across the country last year -- and Uttar Pradesh tops the list, the government has admitted in parliament. Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Maken informed parliament Tuesday that the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) registered 103 fake shootout cases in 2008 as compared to 93 in 2007 and 122 in 2006.
BSP MP displays 'fake' currency of Rs 500 in Rajya SabhaJuly 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bahujan Samaj Party member Brajesh Pathak created a scene in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday when he displayed a currency of Rs 500, which the MP claimed to be 'fake.'
Pathak, who was participating in a debate on General Budget, tried to grab the attention of the members by displaying Rs 500 currency and claimed that he got the currency from an ATM in the Parliament Annexe. P. J. Kurian who was, in the Chair of the presiding officer, asked Pathak to table the currency as there is no provisions to display any items in the rule.
Delhi police busts fake visa racketJuly 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The special cell of Delhi police has arrested four people, allegedly running a racket of preparing fake foreign visas and work permits. "Three accused - Nand Kishore, Dhruv Kumar and Mohammad Hussain - were arrested from New Friends Colony area Thursday on the basis of information from intelligence agencies.
Fake currency seized in New DelhiJuly 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Police here arrested five men for smuggling counterfeit Indian currency worth one million rupees. Police recovered bundles of notes in the denomination of 500 rupees from them.
No bogus employee in MCD: OfficialJuly 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Municipal Corporation of Delhi's commissioner K.S. Mehra Thursday said there were no bogus employees in the civic authority and said the reports that there were fake 45,000 workers in the corporation were untrue.
Government of India sanctions Rs 100 cr for minority concentrated districtsJune 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Government's Ministry of Minority Affairs has sanctioned rupees 100 crore for nine districts in various States to speed up implementation of multi-sectoral development plans in areas where minorities are in sizeable number. The Ministry has listed 25 Minority Concentrated Districts (MCDs) out of a total of 90 to implement the project under its 100-day work plan.
Will identify bogus employees soon, says embarrassed MCDJune 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - After it was revealed that a huge chunk of employees of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) were fake, civic body's standing committee chairperson Vijender Gupta Tuesday said the bogus work force will be identified soon. "We have more than 100,000 employees but there was no streamlined system to check how many were actually working.
Million-year old mammoth skeleton unearthed in eastern Serbia, archaeologists sayJune 4th, 2009 Mammoth skeleton unearthed in SerbiaBELGRADE, Serbia — A well-preserved skeleton of a mammoth that is believed to be about 1 million years old has been unearthed in eastern Serbia, archaeologists said Thursday. The discovery was made during excavation two days ago at an open-pit coal mine near Kostolac power plant, said Miomir Korac, from Serbia's Archaeology Institute.
Nebraska woman arrested for allegedly placing fake ads in newspaper to boost her salaryJune 3rd, 2009 Woman allegedly places fake ads to boost salaryLINCOLN, Neb. — A woman has been arrested on suspicion of theft after police say she placed fake ads in a newspaper she worked for to boost her salary.
Fake visa racket busted in DelhiMay 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A fake visa racket has been busted in the capital with the arrest of two people who forged foreign visas and passports for Afghan nationals, Delhi Police said Saturday. Sleuths of Delhi Police's special cell arrested Anil Dhawan and Pritpal Singh Friday and recovered 54 fake Indian passports, blank visa stickers, 22 fake stamps of Indian immigration authorities, embassies of Schengen countries, nationalised banks, a computer and its peripherals used in making fake documents from them, a police official said.
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