Translate bar in UK

London, Dec. 8 (PTI): The British government has asked local councils to stop translating documents and signs into foreign languages, including Hindi, Punjabi, Gujarati and Urdu, which, it said, reinforces the “language barrier” and costs the exchequer an estimated £100 million.

Hazel Blears, the communities secretary, said English should be used wherever possible to make it easier for immigrants to integrate into society.

Email fraud

Nagpur (PTI): A housewife was duped out of Rs 91,380 by four persons, probably foreigners. Urmila Sanjiv Wasnik received an email saying she had won $100,000 in a lottery and was fooled into depositing the money in an account with ICICI bank.

Indians held

Kathmandu (PTI): Three Indians travelling in a car were arrested with more than 1kg of marijuana in Nepal’s Parsa district on Saturday. The three are residents of Uttar Pradesh’s Gorakhpur district.

Wait reward

Kanpur (PTI): The Uttar Pradesh government has awarded a compensation of Rs 5,000 to each of the 48 schoolchildren, who had fainted from dehydration while waiting for Samajwadi Party leaders Amar Singh and Jayaprada at a Gandhi Jayanti programme. The compensation was announced after the intervention of the National Human Rights Commission.

Engineer rap

Jammu (PTI): The State Accountability Commission has recommended the dismissal of two engineers whose negligence resulted in the electrocution of two casual workers in Bhaderwah in 2005. They were found guilty of failing to ensure that all electricity supply lines around the working site were shut down.