News updates: AAP dissolves Assam state organization ahead of elections

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Aam Aadmi Party dissolves the present organisation in the state of Assam with immediate effect. Until the new organisational structure is announced, the State President, State Secretary and State Treasurer will continue to hold their posts. AAP has constituted a Working Committee comprising the following leaders to restructure the party organisation- Dr Bhaben Choudhury (convenor), Manoj Dhanowar (Co-Convenor), Rajiv Saikia, Mamun Imdadul Haque Chaudhary, Rishiraj Kaundinya, Anurupa Dekaraja.

The CBI has assumed control of five cases from Bihar, Gujarat, and Rajasthan concerning suspected irregularities in NEET-UG. These cases involve allegations of malpractice, signaling a significant development in the investigation into the conduct of the national medical entrance exam.

The Delhi High Court will on Tuesday pronounce its verdict on a plea by the Enforcement Directorate seeking a stay on the trial court order granting bail to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in the money laundering case stemming from the alleged excise scam.

Mamata Banerjee has written to the Prime Minister, expressing her strong reservation over the exclusion of the Bengal government from discussions on Teesta water sharing and the Farakka Treaty with Bangladesh. She has also urged him to consider abolishing NEET, restore system of conducting the exam by states following paper leak row.

BJP National President J P Nadda today wrote to Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge, questioning the "stoic silence" of his party on the recent hooch tragedy in Tamil Nadu. The tragedy, which left 56 dead "until now" and almost 159 persons hospitalised, was entirely a "man-made disaster", Nadda said in his letter to Kharge, and alleged a nexus between the ruling "DMK-INDI alliance" dispensation and illicit liquor mafia as the reason behind the "worst ever" such incident.

The Supreme Court today asked Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to wait for the Delhi High Court's order on his bail petition in a money laundering case related to the now-scrapped liquor policy.

The Union education ministry's high-level committee on exam reforms and reviewing functioning of the National Testing Agency is scheduled to meet today. Amid a raging controversy over irregularities in competitive exams, the ministry on Saturday notified a seven-member commitee chaired by former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief K Radhakrishnan to conduct examinations in a transparent and smooth manner through the National Testing Agency (NTA). The panel is expected to look at the existing security protocols on the setting of the papers and other processes for different examinations. The panel is also tasked with making recommendations to enhance the robustness of the system.

The National Testing Agency (NTA) has said that forty-eight per cent of students who were scheduled to retake the NEET-UG today did not turn up. 1,563 students who were given grace marks were eligible to take the retest today after the Supreme Court had passed an order, the NTA said. Seven exam centres were ope in Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Haryana, Meghalaya, and Chandigarh. Data showed that of the total, 813 (52 per cent) gave the retest and 750 skipped.

Union minister Ramdas Athawale has said his Republican Party of India (A) supports conducting a caste census in the country and believes some way should be found for it. "My party demands that some way should be found because once the caste-based census is done, we will know the percentage of every caste in the population," the Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment said.