Madras HC: Freedom of Religion Cannot Extend to Disturbing Peace Within Temple Premises || Delhi HC: Lokpal Cannot Form a Prima Facie View on Corruption Without Hearing The Official || MP High Court: DRT Cannot Restrict or Impose Conditions on a Person's Foreign Travel || Bombay HC: Results of Dec 2 And 20 Local Body Election Must be Declared Together || Delhi HC: Employment Disputes Cannot be Treated as Commercial Cases under the Act || Supreme Court: Divorced Muslim Woman Can Reclaim Gifts Given to Husband at Marriage || Supreme Court: Police and Courts Should Act as Initial Filters to Prevent Baseless Prosecutions || SC: Maharashtra Can Acquire Land under Slum Areas Act, Respecting Owner's Preferential Rights || Supreme Court: Excise Exemption on Cotton Fabrics is Denied if Any Related Process Uses Power || NCLAT: IBC Auctions are Not Ordinary Contracts, and Market Volatility Does not Excuse Bid Defaults

Discovery of Ink to Curb Fake Printing of Passports and Counterfeiting of Currency Notes- (Press Information Bureau) (03 Mar 2020)

MANU/PIBU/0550/2020

Civil

CSIR-National Physical Laboratory has developed a bi-luminescent security ink which glows in red and green colours when illuminated by two different excitation sources at 254 nano meters (nm) and 365 nm, respectively. The ink was prepared in a batch of 1kg and given to Bank Note Press (BNP), Dewas, a unit of Security Printing Minting Corporation of India Ltd. (SPMCIL), New Delhi. The ink is found comparable to the standards that are in use. The formulation can be used to check the authenticity of passports, Government documents, tamper evident labels, identity cards, etc.

Tags : DISCOVERY FAKE PRINTING CURRENCY NOTES

Share :