Supreme Court: Driving Licence Renewal After a Gap Will Not Take Effect From Expiry Date || Supreme Court: High Courts Cannot Quash Cheque Bounce Cases by Pre-Trial Inquiry Into Liability || Supreme Court: Passport Renewal Cannot be Denied if Trial Court Has Permitted it Despite Pending Case || SC: Delay in Depositing Sale Balance Does not Make Specific Performance Decree Inexecutable || Supreme Court: Non-Compete Fees Qualify as Deductible Revenue Expenditure under Income Tax Act || Supreme Court: Section 311 CrPC Should be Invoked Sparingly, Only When Evidence is Vital || J&K&L High Court: Successive Bail Applications Can Be Filed Even Without Change in Circumstances || Kerala HC: Fresh Arbitration Notice is Required For Second Arbitration After Prior Award Set Aside || NCLT Hyderabad: Mortgaging Property Without Lending Money Does Not Constitute Financial Debt || Supreme Court: Vacancies From Resignations under CUSAT Act Must Follow Communal Rotation

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 :