# The Catch Up: ABVP takes on BJP (9 September)

An episode of [3 Things](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1406730235), 9 Sep 2026, 4:02.

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The headlines of the day by The Indian Express

## Transcript

[0:03] Speaker 1: This is the catch-up on three things by the Indian
[0:05] Speaker 1: Express and I'm Ichha Sharma. Today is the 9th of
[0:12] Speaker 1: September and here are today's headlines. Starting with major news,
[0:17] Speaker 1: three people identified as Afghan nationals. were allegedly found in
[0:21] Speaker 1: the draft electoral roll in Jamshedpur during the ongoing special
[0:24] Speaker 1: intensive revision, or SIR, of electoral rolls prompting the Election
[0:29] Speaker 1: Commission to conduct a district-level probe. According to officials, the
[0:33] Speaker 1: three cases were detected during the process of verification of
[0:36] Speaker 1: documents submitted for inclusion of names in the electoral roll
[0:39] Speaker 1: in Jamshedpur East. Arnav Mishra, SDO and Electoral Registration Officer,
[0:44] Speaker 1: Jamshedpur East, said all three had submitted passports as their
[0:48] Speaker 1: supporting documents during the SIR process. Meanwhile, the Akhil Bharatiya
[0:56] Speaker 1: Vidyarthi Parishad, the student organisation associated with the Sangh Parivaar,
[1:01] Speaker 1: has stepped up its protest against the collapse of a
[1:04] Speaker 1: student hostel in in southwest Delhi's Satya Niketan, holding demonstrations
[1:09] Speaker 1: and sit-ins across several Delhi University campuses and demanding the
[1:13] Speaker 1: suspension of MCD Commissioner Sanjeev Kirwar. The protests against a
[1:18] Speaker 1: BJP-run MCD in a BJP-run Delhi and with a BJP-run
[1:23] Speaker 1: central government came a day after the five-storey building housing
[1:27] Speaker 1: a boys' PG near DU's south campus collapsed, killing at
[1:31] Speaker 1: least seven and injuring several others. This is not the
[1:35] Speaker 1: first time the ABVP has protested against a government or
[1:39] Speaker 1: a civic body led by the BJP. And now in
[1:45] Speaker 1: some news from the South, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and
[1:48] Speaker 1: TVK Chief C. Joseph Vijay today announced, that the ruling
[1:51] Speaker 1: party alliance will be called Secular Social Justice Victory Alliance
[1:56] Speaker 1: after a meeting at the TVK headquarters in Panayur. In
[2:00] Speaker 1: a separate government order, Patina Pakam was named as the
[2:03] Speaker 1: new location for government secretariat. Notably absent from the meeting
[2:07] Speaker 1: were the leaders of the left parties. Both the CPIM
[2:10] Speaker 1: and the CPI, which support the government, have skipped the meeting.
[2:14] Speaker 1: Tamil Nadu Congress Committee President B. Manikkam Tagore, the Grand
[2:19] Speaker 1: Old Party's Rajya Sabha member and assembly floor leader, Praveen
[2:22] Speaker 1: Chakravarti and Tarai Kutberth respectively have taken part in the meeting.
[2:32] Speaker 1: In other major news making national headlines, mere possession of
[2:35] Speaker 1: books with dispiriting titles doesn't make a person a criminal,
[2:40] Speaker 1: the Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh High Court said as it
[2:43] Speaker 1: quashed the Public Safety Act charges against a North Kashmir scholar.
[2:48] Speaker 1: The observation came a year after the J & K
[2:50] Speaker 1: administration banned 25 books, most of them on Kashmir history.
[2:53] Speaker 1: Shafat Magbulwani, a scholar from Kupwara, was detained under the
[2:58] Speaker 1: Public Safety Act last year. The detention order cited his
[3:01] Speaker 1: father's former militant links, his invitations to international academic conferences,
[3:06] Speaker 1: books found in his possession, and an Unlawful Activities Act
[3:10] Speaker 1: of 1967, case in which he was granted bail. And
[3:17] Speaker 1: in the end, in news-making global headlines, the U.S. has
[3:20] Speaker 1: suspended Permanent Labor Certification, or PERM, filings by Chennai-founded IT
[3:26] Speaker 1: services company, cognizant and software firm, Cloudera, as the Trump
[3:30] Speaker 1: administration steps up its crackdown on alleged fraud and misuse
[3:34] Speaker 1: of employment visa programs. The move could have implications for
[3:38] Speaker 1: foreign workers seeking U.S. employment-based green cards through Cognizant, including
[3:42] Speaker 1: Indian technology professionals. The U.S. Department of Labor has not
[3:46] Speaker 1: disclosed the specific allegations against either company. And with that,
[3:54] Speaker 1: this was all for today. This was the catch-up on
[3:55] Speaker 1: three things by the Indian Express.

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