The first ever national aviation university is all set to come up at UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi’s constituency of Rae Bareli in UP. The university is named after former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.

A bill to set up an all-women university in Rae Bareli was introduced in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. The university is named after former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who represented Rae Bareli several times. Congress president Sonia Gandhi is currently representing the constituency.

The widows in Varanasi, usually shunned on auspicious occasions, celebrated the festival of Raksha Bandhan on Tuesday by tying rakhi on the wrist of social reformer Bindeshwari Pathak, who is working for their upliftment.
The widows gathered at the Nepali Ashram on the banks of the Ganga river to celebrate the festival in presence of seers and Sanskrit scholars.

A Facebook friend allegedly raped a Jaipur-based girl in Kota on Sunday night. The accused, Manish Saini, who is a software engineer, raped the victim and later handed her over to his friend to rape her. The police in Kota launched a manhunt to arrest Manish and his friend Nandkishore, an engineer student.

A youth on Tuesday allegedly raped an eight-year-old girl and later strangled her to death at a city slum here. According to the relatives of the victim, the youth came to the Saliasahi slum in the morning and asked the girl to help him identify a particular person’s house in the locality.

Top Lashkar-e-Tayyaba operative Abdul Karim Tunda, in a startling disclosure during custodial interrogation, has told a joint team of the Intelligence Bureau and the Delhi police special cell that Pakistan Army commandos had indeed been training militants of both the Lashkar and the Jaish-e-Mohammed at camps in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir so that they could be inducted into the “border area teams” of the Pakistan Army.

While the government is ready to accept “workable” amendments proposed by political parties, top Congress leaders on Monday met Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav to enlist his support for the UPA’s ambitious National Food Security Bill, that is now pending in the Lok Sabha.

In its biggest single-day fall since September 2011, the Indian rupee plunged to a record new low on Monday, slipping below the 63-level mark against the US dollar on speculation that an improving American economy would prompt the US Fed to scale back its multi-billion-dollar stimulus much earlier than expected.

While defence minister A.K. Antony warned Islamabad that “our restraint should not be taken for granted”, the facing armies once again exchanged fire at a few places along the Line of Control in Kashmir on Monday. The latest skirmish, the Army said, was triggered by another violation of the November 2003 ceasefire by Pakistani troops in Poonch district.

In a setback to India’s space programme, the launch of GSLV-D5, carrying the 1,982-kg GSAT-14, was called off after scientists noticed fuel leaking from the rocket just two hours before liftoff.