Congress Working Committee members on Saturday unanimously urged Rahul Gandhi to take the role of Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, as it also credited his two Bharat Jodo Yatras for the party's performance in the general elections.

The education ministry has set up a four-member panel to review the grace marks awarded to more than 1,500 candidates in the NEET-UG medical entrance exam, the National Testing Agency (NTA) announced on Saturday.

In a significant development, it has been reported that at least five to six MLAs belonging to the Shiv Sena faction led by Eknath Shinde are in communication with leaders of the Shiv Sena under Uddhav Thackeray's leadership, expressing their desire to return to the party fold. Sources close to the matter have disclosed that Uddhav Thackeray, the chief of Shiv Sena (UBT), will ultimately decide on their reintegration into the party.

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge Saturday said the Lok Sabha poll mandate is a "decisive rejection" of the politics of divisiveness and hate, and stressed that the INDIA bloc must continue functioning cohesively both inside and outside Parliament.

A court in Bihar's Aurangabad district sentenced 16 people, including two women, to life imprisonment for killing a man on suspicion of practising witchcraft.

The Congress in Kerala on Saturday demanded a comprehensive investigation into the allegations of irregularities in NEET 2024 results.

JD(U) leader KC Tyagi claimed that despite rejecting an offer to appoint Nitish Kumar as the national convenor of the INDIA bloc, other parties are now making overtures to appoint him as the Prime Minister of India, an offer that the party has firmly declined.

Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Friday hailed Rahul Gandhi as "the man of the match" of the Lok Sabha polls and said it would be fitting that he takes on the mantle of the Leader of Opposition in the Lower House.