The government has mooted the idea of installation of satellite phones in aircraft cockpits as an emergency communication device between the air traffic control (ATC) and pilots in case of any breakdown of surface radars, electricity failure or breakdown in VHF battery-operated equipment operated by the Air-Traffic Control (ATC).

Mr Ajit Singh might be very eager to become a Union minister but the Congress in New Delhi, as also in Lucknow, is playing it cool on the issue of the Rashtriya Lok Dal’s merger with the party.

As the crime of “honour killings” are taking place with alarming regularity, a research paper to be presented at an international conference in London by Chandigarh-based senior lawyer Ranjit Malhotra suggest that the total number of such killings could well be over 1,000 every year in India.

Suggesting that there is a need for a suitable stringent law to tackle with “honour killings”, the Congress on Wednesday asked the government to show resolve in dealing with the menace.

Rising food prices and growing unemployment across South Asia has created a crisis situation where India is unlikely to meet the 2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDG) for poverty alleviation.

Members of the parliamentary panel examining the controversial Nuclear Liability Bill are set to visit a nuclear plant at Kalpakkam to gain first-hand experience on operations being carried out at such facilities.

The CBI may file a supplementary charge-sheet before the trial court after the government decides to file a curative petition in the Supreme Court for restoration of the stringent charges invoked by the CBI in its earlier chargesheet against the accused.

Union law and justice minister M. Veerappa Moily on Wednesday stated that the government will aim at preventing a repeat of Bhopal gas leak case. While unveiling the new National Litigation Policy on Wednesday, the minister proposed a stringent monitoring and review mechanism for all government litigation so that cases such as the Bhopal gas tragedy are noticed before it is too late.

Keen to regain power in Bihar after a five-year gap, the RJD is set to reach out to upper castes, with its chief Lalu Prasad Yadav saying his party is not against them and wanted to work for their upliftment along with OBCs, dalits and Muslims.

After burying the hatchet with alliance partner BJP in Bihar, the JD(U) has stated that the leaders within the saffron party nursing grievances against the deputy chief minister, Mr Sushil Modi, had deepened the rift.