Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday called the Cabinet Secretary and other important officials and instructed them to expedite the committee formation and process of sub-categorisation in the reservation to Madiga community, PTI quoted government sources.
A Hyderabad-bound international flight of IndiGo made an emergency landing in Pakistan's Karachi after a passenger experienced a medical emergency on board. In a statement, the airline said the passenger could not survive and was declared dead on arrival.
Yog guru Swami Ramdev on Wednesday claimed that diseases like diabetes, hypertension, asthma, arthritis, obesity, kidney, liver failure and thyroid can be permanently cured through yoga and Ayurveda. These are diseases for which allopathy is used to provide a permanent cure. He claimed that his company Patanjali Ayurved has manufactured medicines to cure life-threatening diseases with the help of scientific research, and millions of people have been treated successfully. Ramdev said, he has a complete database of records of such treatment, and Patanjali’s research papers have been published in several journals across the globe. The yog guru offered to submit all this evidence from his database before the Supreme Court. He even offered to present patients who have been cured of such diseases. Ramdev’s offer came a day after the apex court cautioned Patanjali Ayurved against making “false and misleading” claims to cure diseases in advertisements for its medicines, and threatened to impose costs up to Rs 1 crore on every product on which “false” claims are made. 
Electioneering in Rajasthan has reached a crescendo, and already there has been a flurry of personal attacks and use of abusive words by some top leaders. On Tuesday, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi used the word ‘jebqatra’ (pickpocket) and ‘panauti’ (bad omen) for Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Rahul Gandhi said, PM abbreviation stands for ‘Panauti Modi’. He was addressing an election rally in Rajasthan. Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge described Modi as ‘maha-jhootha’ (big liar), while Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said, the abbreviation of MODI stands for ‘Master Of Drama In India’. Till now, Congress and BJP leaders were busy sniping at one another in their speeches. They were criticizing the rival party’s policies and questioning their election ‘guarantees’. The debate was on local issues and leaders had refrained from personal attacks, but on Tuesday, Rahul Gandhi launched personal attacks on Modi. 
Dera Sirsa chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, who was lodged in Rohtak's Sunaria jail in the Sadhvi sexual abuse case and journalist Chhatrapati murder case, walked out of prison after getting parole for the eighth time. The rape-murder convict was granted a 21-day parole on Monday. Ram Rahim has been out of jail 7 times before.
The IndiGo Airlines said that a passenger on a flight from Jaipur to Bengaluru was intoxicated and misbehaved with the crew despite multiple warnings. According to the information, the passenger was travelling on flight 6E 556 on Monday.
Deepfake videos case: Amid serious concerns over deepfake videos, the government is all set to meet social media platforms on the issue, with IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Saturday (November 18) asserting that safe harbour immunity clause will not apply if platforms do not take adequate steps to remove deepfakes.Republic Day 2024 : As India's 75th Republic Day Parade kicked off in the national capital, a 30-member band contingent and a marching c...
