The STF, which will be similar to the 'Grey Hounds' of neighbouring Andhra Pradesh, will be imparted advanced training in commando operations and jungle warfare to take on the Maoist rebels in the dense forests.
Three police personnel and two Maoists were killed in a gun-battle between security personnel and ultras in dense forests of Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district on Sunday, police said.
Two kg of RDX and two detonators were recovered on Friday from Unnao, about 50 km from Lucknow, by Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force on the basis of information provided by a Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami militant.
The gangster's wife, Richa Dubey, their son and maid were kept at a mahila police station in Kanpur after being brought from their Krishna Nagar residence in Lucknow for questioning, a police official said in Kanpur.
Ranjeet Bachchan, 40, who had founded the little known Vishwa Hindu Mahasabha, was allegedly killed because he was "delaying" the proceedings to divorce his wife Smriti Srivastava, who wanted to marry Deepender.
A diary maintained by forest brigand Veerappan, which could throw light on a saga of murders, kidnappings and extortion, was seized at the scene of last week's encounter in Dharmapuri district of Tamil Nadu.
The bomb attack on West Bengal minister Jakir Hossain snowballed into a political controversy with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee alleging that it was a preplanned conspiracy as certain people were 'pressuring' him to switch over to another party, while opposition parties demanded National Investigation Agency (NIA) into the issue.
The Enforcement Directorate on Sunday conducted searches in various Uttar Pradesh cities after it registered a money laundering case to probe the alleged Rs 3,700 ponzi scam case perpetrated by seeking fake social media 'likes' from lakhs of gullible investors by a Noida based firm.
Madhya Pradesh Governor Ram Naresh Yadav, the Special Task Force probing the MPPEB scam, on Tuesday registered an FIR against him.
The searches spanned across Bhopal, Indore, Ujjain, Rewa, Jabalpur, Lucknow and Allahabad among other cities, CBI sources said.
After being alerted by Odisha, its Andhra Pradesh counterpart intercepted a vehicle with Delhi registration number and nabbed the five persons, including two women.
Two senior officers of the Special Task Force investigating the high-profile Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board scam have claimed to have received threats allegedly from some influential people involved in the racket.
Directing Andhra Pradesh government to conduct a magisterial enquiry into the killing of 20 persons allegedly in police firing in Chittoor district, the National Human Rights Commission on Monday ordered the Tamil Nadu police to give protection to two persons from the state connected with the incident.
Two Naxals were also gunned down in these face-offs.
More than 30 accused wanted in connection with the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board scam have died since the probe began in 2012, said chairman of the special team monitoring the investigation in the scandal that has rattled BJP government in the state.
Avenging the Sukma attack, security forces claim to have gunned down 12-15 Maoists in Chhattisgarh's Basaguda-Chintalnar area on Sunday.
Pandey is living in New Delhi along with his family.
Motorcycle-borne assailants had pumped 24 bullets into 45-year-old Ahmad and four into his wife Farzana Khatoon in April last.
Police appointed an inspector general to probe into an unverified letter that surfaced on social media, purportedly written weeks before his death by Deputy Superintendent of Police Devendra Mishra. It had alleged links between the Chaubeypur station officer and the gangster.
Three Maoists were killed on Monday in an encounter by Special Task Force personnels assisted by Cobra battalion of Central Reserve Police Force in Bihar's Rohtas district.
Scotland Yard's War Crimes Team, which is part of its Counter-Terrorism Command, has launched an investigation into the role of British mercenaries in fighting the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels in Sri Lanka during the 1980s.
The recommendation is being forwarded to the Union government.
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In an affidavit filed in the apex court, the state government has alleged that Kappan is the office secretary of Popular Front of India and was using a 'journalist cover' by showing identity card of a Kerela-based newspaper which was closed in 2018.
The Special Task Force of Kolkata police on Wednesday arrested a 14-year-old student for allegedly sending a 'mischievous' e-mail to media houses claiming responsibility for the Delhi high court blasts.
Two former hardcore members of banned terror outfit Al-Umma have been identified as the masterminds behind the plot to target the convoy of Bharatiya Janata Party leader L K Advani during his yatra near in Madurai and a manhunt is on to nab them, Special Investigation Team officials said.
The SC said it appeared that the entire test and the system was tainted.
16 weapons, including 315 bore and 12 bore guns, were recovered from the spot.
Mahant Satya Narayan was hiding in the house of his follower in a village under Ughaiti police station from where he was picked up.
The drastic move on Tuesday night followed soon after police announced the transfer of a DIG, who till recently was the senior superintendent of police in Kanpur.
A jawan of the special task force of state police was killed in an encounter with the Naxals in Chhattisgarh's insurgency-hit Sukma district on Saturday. The encounter took place at Kondre village under Gadiras police station limits, 400 km from Raipur, Additional Superintendent of Police Santosh Singh told PTI.
Over 100 personnel from Sri Lanka's elite Special Task Force on Friday raided the office of former army chief and defeated opposition presidential candidate General Sarath Fonseka in Colombo."I don't know what they are looking for. They have also questioned the staff," said a close aide of Fonseka, who was trounced by incumbent Mahinda Rajapaksa in the January 26 presidential polls.
'Dubey was a desperate criminal.' 'I don't discount the possibility of him trying to disarm the cops and escape.'
The Uttar Pradesh police on Monday claimed to have made a major breakthrough in its anti-Maoist tirade after the arrest of 10 alleged Naxals from different parts of the state over the last 24 hours.
Nearly 450 kg of explosives were seized by the Special Task Force of Bihar police, from two places in Gaya district, in the wee hours of Thursday.Acting on a tip off, police raided a shop at Kaulakhshni area in Gaya and seized 29 gunny bags containing explosives, Superintendent of Police S M Khopade said. The STF also raided a house under Delha police station in the district and recovered 70 sacks of explosive materials, Khopde said.
Three persons, including an Inter Services Intelligence agent from Pakistan, were arrested by Madhya Pradesh Special Task force for allegedly passing on sensitive information about the Indian Army, a senior officer said on Sunday.
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In a major breakthrough, the Uttar Pradesh police have taken into custody a cyber cafe owner at Sahibabad in Ghazaibad district of the National Capital region (NCR) from where the e-mail claiming the responsibility for Tuesday's serial blasts in Jaipur was sent by the militant outfit Indian Mujahideen. The Ghaziabad police confirmed the news of taking Madhukhar Mishra and his son into custody for interrogation.
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