RAS question
Which database was launched at the NIA Anti-Terror Conference 2025 to track criminal networks?
Correct answer: (B) AI-enabled Organized Crime Network Database.
At the NIA Anti-Terrorism Conference-2025, Union Home Minister Amit Shah launched the Organised Crime Network Database to support action against organised-crime networks.
Explanation
The correct choice is the AI-enabled Organized Crime Network Database, corresponding to the Organised Crime Network Database named in the official PIB release. PIB says Amit Shah inaugurated the NIA-organised Anti-Terrorism Conference-2025 in New Delhi on 26 December 2025 and unveiled three initiatives: NIA's updated crime manual, the Organised Crime Network Database, and the Lost/Looted and Recovered Weapon Database. The database matters because the Home Minister linked organised-crime networks with ransom and extortion, and warned that leaders who flee abroad can come into contact with terrorist organisations and use criminal proceeds to spread terrorism. That makes the database part of the wider counter-terrorism governance toolkit, not a routine crime-statistics record.
Why the other options are wrong
- (A) The National Crime Records Bureau Database is associated with crime records and statistics, whereas the PIB release identifies a newly launched Organised Crime Network Database for organised-crime networks.
- (C) NATGRID is mentioned separately as a tool ATS units should use in investigations, but the database launched at the conference was the Organised Crime Network Database.
- (D) The PIB release does not mention any Counter-Terrorism Task Force Registry; it names the updated NIA crime manual, the Organised Crime Network Database, and the weapons database.
Concept
This tests internal-security governance: how specialised databases, NIA coordination and counter-terrorism administration fit into policing policy. RAS often frames such questions around officially launched initiatives because the exact institutional name decides the answer.