An expert committee that revised the draft of new guidelines for determining whether to provide treatment to patients with no hope of recovery in emergency medical settings held a press conference in Yokohama on the 7th, stating the significance of the revision: 'We want to create guidelines that respect the patient's wishes in decisions about life-sustaining treatment.'

The Karnataka State Cricket Association is required to comply with 17 major suggestions drafted by the expert committee to get final clearance; it has only complied with two so far

Kerala Minister V. Sivankutty has welcomed the Supreme Court's intervention regarding references to 'corruption' in the judiciary within an NCERT Class VIII textbook and demanded an independent expert committee probe into recent textbook revisions.