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TopicSpecial Task Force

Topic: Special Task Force

Gangsters, murders & gun culture—67 songs glorifying crime taken down in Haryana STF crackdown

Notices have been issued to the digital intermediaries hosting the songs in question. Some of the flagged songs have since been removed or geo-blocked in India.

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

Youth Congress, your foolish protest helped the Modi govt climb out of the AI summit hole

In tactical terms, the shirtless protest was worse than a self-goal. Suddenly, the fiascos of the AI Summit were forgotten, and the Youth Congress’s disruption became the issue.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

MoD, IAF agree on some exemptions to HAL for Tejas Mk1A, but no compromise on ‘must-have’ capabilities

IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.