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TopicSpecial Task Force

Topic: Special Task Force

KLO chief Jibon Singha booked under UAPA for calling Mamata Banerjee ‘outsider’

Kamtapur Liberation Organisation chief Singha was also booked under sedition charges for demanding a separate state comprising the areas in the northern parts of West Bengal.

Dhirendra Singh, accused of killing man in Ballia in front of police, arrested by STF

Main accused Dhirendra Singh was arrested from Lucknow on Sunday morning. Two more accused in the case were arrested from Ballia.

8 UP policemen killed in encounter with criminals in Kanpur

The 8 UP policemen were killed in a hail of bullets from a building rooftop when they reached the hideout of dreaded criminal Vikas Dubey, who faces 60 criminal cases.

Act against 9 cops for ‘suspicious’ role in Gujarat encounters under CM Modi: Report

The STF, led by retired Justice Bedi, does not link any politicians or high-profile police officers to any of the these encounters.

SC-appointed Special Task Force ‘finds 4 Gujarat encounters suspicious’

The STF, headed by former SC judge H.S. Bedi, has indicated the involvement of some police officers in the encounters that followed the 2002 Gujarat riots.

It’s DGP vs DGPs in Punjab as top cop names two others in ‘drug racket’ investigation

DGP Chattopadhyaya has also told the high court that he was being framed for suicide abetment to derail his team’s probe.

Committee probing Gujarat ‘fake’ encounters submits report to SC in sealed cover

The panel, headed by former SC judge H.S. Bedi, was set up by the Supreme Court to probe 22 encounter deaths in the state between 2002 and 2007.

Timeline: Kejriwal has apologised but Punjab’s Majithia has a pretty ‘murky’ past

He faces allegations of having links with drug smugglers in Punjab and has filed a series of defamation cases against politicians and media in this connection.

On Camera

Meghnad Desai was a man of many passions. Marxian economics, politics to Bollywood

Meghnad’s interest went much beyond economics and politics. This is reflected in his writing, particularly after his retirement as a full-time LSE professor in 2003.

Govt’s earlier FDI limit of 74% in insurance sector has remained underutilised, Parliament told

In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.

India to get last of Spain-built C-295 next month, focus now on 1st India-made aircraft

New Delhi: The last of the C-295 transport aircraft that is replacing the ageing Avro fleet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) will be...

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.