The source material supplied for this assignment contains only a headline — "More teeth for the aviation regulator," published by Hindustan Times — and a link to the article. The full text did not come through in the data feed.

Flightdeck Report's editorial standards, and the instructions for this rewrite, prohibit adding information absent from the source. That constraint matters here. A story about strengthening a regulator's enforcement powers invites speculation about penalties, staffing, statutory amendments, or specific accident investigations — and each of those details would be invention unless the source actually reports it.

What the headline alone establishes is direction, not substance: an Indian publication is reporting a move to give the country's aviation regulator greater authority. In the Indian context that regulator is the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), which oversees an air transport market that has grown into one of the world's largest by domestic passengers. But the headline does not name the regulator, the ministry involved, the mechanism of reform, or a timeline — so those specifics cannot responsibly appear in a rewritten news item.

Rather than manufacture a 520-word analysis on a foundation of one line, the correct editorial action is to flag the gap and request the complete article text. Once the full body copy is available, this desk can produce the rewrite the brief calls for: the enforcement powers at issue, the regulator and ministry named, the parliamentary or administrative vehicle for the change, the operators and stakeholders affected, and the consequences for safety oversight capacity in a market where traffic growth has repeatedly strained regulatory staffing.

No facts, quotes, figures, or attributions have been added beyond what the supplied headline states.