Less than two months after the Mangalore air crash, the US’ Federal Aviation Agency on Thursday has informed the Indian government that India continues to remain in Category-1 of the FAA’s International Aviation Safety Assessment programme.

Remembering management guru C.K. Prahalad, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Thursday that he believed through innovation and creative entrepreneurship it is possible to create ideas which can change the course of human endeavour.

The legal fraternity was in shock Thursday after a 25-year-old advocate was stabbed to death in the Karnataka high court, paying with her life for either rejecting the advances of her alleged paramour or subjected to a murderous fit of jealousy.

Union home minister P. Chidambaram was against any referral of proposed legal changes to tackle “honour killings” to a Group of Ministers, sources said. But speaking to reporters after the meeting, Mr Chidambram said: “The intention is to introduce the bills in the Monsoon Session, and the whole process will be completed before the session ends.”

Vowing to dedicate his life to fulfil his father’s mission, Kadapa MP Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy launched the second phase of his controversial “Odarpu” yatra from Itchapuram town on Thursday morning.

A sharp escalation in cases of diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and strokes has seen the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs take a decision on Thursday to set aside Rs 1,231 crores for diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular diseases for the remaining Eleventh Plan period.

With Bihar elections approaching, the Centre on Thursday set the ball rolling for the setting up of Nalanda University in the state by giving its nod for the presentation of a bill relating to this in the Monsoon Session of Parliament.

For the second time in two weeks Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday referred a politically contentious issue to a Group of Ministers for further deliberations — this time on strengthening existing laws to check the growing menace of “honour killings”.

In keeping with its promise to further ameliorate the condition of the country’s minorities, particularly Muslims, the government has approved a Rs 500 crore increase in the authorised share capital of the National Minorities Development Finance Corporation.

Women in the capital of Delhi feel unsafe at all time and in all places, says a study conducted by the Delhi government’s department of women and child development along with some NGO’s.