# The Catch Up: Delhi building collapses; at least 7 dead (7 September)

An episode of [3 Things](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1406730235), 7 Sep 2026, 4:14.

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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
[0:06] Speaker 1: Express and I'm Ichha Sharma. Today is the 7th of
[0:14] Speaker 1: September and here are today's headlines. Starting with major news,
[0:19] Speaker 1: the collapse of a five-story private paying guest accommodation in
[0:23] Speaker 1: Delhi's Satya Niketan on Sunday, that is the 6th of September,
[0:27] Speaker 1: which killed at least seven people and injured several others,
[0:30] Speaker 1: has brought the city's student accommodation shortage into focus. While
[0:34] Speaker 1: other renowned central institutions for higher education like IIT Delhi
[0:39] Speaker 1: and AIMS can accommodate around 50-70% of their total students
[0:43] Speaker 1: in their hostels, respectively, Delhi University's share.
[0:46] Speaker 2: Is much lower.
[0:48] Speaker 1: At IIT too, the death of a second-year MSc physics
[0:51] Speaker 1: student on 22 August triggered a week-long student protest, with
[0:56] Speaker 1: his family members alleging that denial of hostel accommodation had
[1:00] Speaker 1: affected his mental health. Meanwhile, a newspaper ad issued by
[1:07] Speaker 1: the Subindu Adhikari government in West Bengal has become.
[1:10] Speaker 2: The latest political flashpoint in the state after.
[1:12] Speaker 1: The goddess Durga depiction in the ad was found to
[1:15] Speaker 1: have 11 arms instead of 10. The ad called for
[1:18] Speaker 1: a coordination meeting on Monday afternoon to plan for the
[1:22] Speaker 1: upcoming Durga Puja, the first after the change of guard
[1:26] Speaker 1: in Bengal. However, at the meeting, the goddess's image on
[1:29] Speaker 1: the background holding had 11 arms. Taking a swipe at
[1:32] Speaker 1: the BJP government, The Mamata Banerjee-led Tirumal Congress said the
[1:36] Speaker 1: repeated mishandling of Bengal's cultural traditions is deeply insulting. Meanwhile,
[1:45] Speaker 1: on 3 September, Jamnagar Police informed the Indian Bank's Ranjit
[1:50] Speaker 1: Sagar Road branch that they believed gold jewellery worth several
[1:53] Speaker 1: lakhs of rupees had been stolen from its lockers. The
[1:56] Speaker 1: bank officials were in disbelief since the vault containing the
[1:59] Speaker 1: lockers requires a two-person.
[2:01] Speaker 2: Authorization for access.
[2:03] Speaker 1: After checking, the bank officials found the mortgaged ornaments still
[2:06] Speaker 1: in place. But when they called in their jewellery for inspection,
[2:10] Speaker 1: the ornaments in the locker turned out to be fake.
[2:13] Speaker 1: The gold collateral, Mangalsutra necklaces, rings, earrings and pendants that
[2:18] Speaker 1: collectively weighed around 342 grams and worth 39 lakh rupees
[2:23] Speaker 1: had been swapped with fake ornaments. And now in some
[2:30] Speaker 1: news making global headlines... Kenyan President William Ruto's recent public
[2:34] Speaker 1: announcement ordering Tata Chemicals to leave its Lake Magadi soda
[2:39] Speaker 1: ash operation has raised a larger question in India. Why
[2:43] Speaker 1: are two major Indian companies, earlier Adani and now Tata,
[2:46] Speaker 1: finding themselves on the wrong side of Ruto's government? Back
[2:50] Speaker 1: in 2024, Ruto cancelled the proposed Adani Group concession for
[2:54] Speaker 1: upgrading the operating Nairobi's Jomokheate International Airport.
[2:58] Speaker 2: So, is Kenya turning against India?
[3:00] Speaker 1: And if Tata is being pushed out now, who does
[3:03] Speaker 1: Ruto want to bring in? The short answer is that
[3:06] Speaker 1: there is no evidence yet of a deliberate Kenyan policy
[3:09] Speaker 1: to replace Indian companies with companies from another country. But
[3:13] Speaker 1: there is increasing evidence of a more assertive Kenyan economic
[3:16] Speaker 1: nationalism in which foreign investors are expected to deliver much
[3:20] Speaker 1: greater local value, employment and industrialization.
[3:28] Speaker 2: And in the end, we take a look at Ulrich Sigmund, a.
[3:31] Speaker 1: 35-year-old politician from the Alternative for Germany, AFD, the country's
[3:36] Speaker 1: far-right party. He leads the AFD in the eastern state
[3:41] Speaker 1: of Sanxony and Halt, where on Sunday the party won
[3:46] Speaker 1: at least 44% of the vote, according to exit polls
[3:49] Speaker 1: cited by AFP.
[3:51] Speaker 2: A historic result.
[3:53] Speaker 1: That could make Sigmund the first far-right leader of a
[3:56] Speaker 1: German state since the Hitler era. And with that, this
[4:03] Speaker 1: was all for today. This was the catch-up on three
[4:05] Speaker 1: things by the Indian Express.

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