Woman held at airport

A woman was detained by immigration authorities at the airport on Thursday for allegedly using a fake passport.

Shilpaben Natwarlal, 27, a resident of Gandhinagar in Gujarat, went to Dhaka from Delhi on March 12 and from there to Doha on April 3. The city immigration authorities said her passport had the departure stamp from Dhaka but not the arrival stamp at Doha.

During interrogation, Shilpaben told the police that she had used a fake passport after landing at Doha. She said she had gone there for a job.

Fliers stranded: Sixty-eight passengers of a flight to Dimapur, including Nagaland chief minister Neiphu Rio, were stranded at the airport on Thursday because of a technical snag in the aircraft. The flight was scheduled to take off at 2.50pm. The passengers were made to board another aircraft which got delayed as other flights were taking off. The replacement plane could not take off on Thursday due to sunset limitations in Dimapur.

Train tickets: Tickets for the Indo-Bangla Maitreyee Express will be available at Foreign Passengers’ Reservation office at the Eastern Railway headquarters at Fairlie Place from Friday. The tickets, priced at $20, $10 and $8, can be bought in Indian currency.

Honest driver: An autorickshaw driver handed over a wallet containing over Rs 7,500, an expensive cellphone and credit cards to a traffic sergeant at Mominpur on Thursday afternoon. Tuhin Bhattacharya, the driver, saw the wallet fall from the bag of a woman riding pillion on a scooter. Officers of Ekbalpore police station later returned the wallet to its owner.

Bag returned: S.K. Burman, a sergeant attached with the South Traffic Police Guard, found a black bag containing three blank cheques and Rs 14,000 in cash on Gariahat Road South, near South End Park, around 10pm on Wednesday. He deposited the bag at Lake police station. The officers there contacted Rajesh Sharma, 32, a resident of Beltola Road who owns the bag. He collected it from the police station on Thursday.