# The Catch Up: SC sends notice to CEC Gyanesh Kumar, and more (16 October)

An episode of [3 Things](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1406730235), 16 Oct 2026, 4:18.

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The headlines of the week 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 16th of
[0:13] Speaker 1: October and here are this week's headlines. Starting with major
[0:17] Speaker 1: news this week. The often-repeated criticism against Rahul Gandhi used
[0:21] Speaker 1: to be that he was an absentee politician. Now, party
[0:24] Speaker 1: leaders say, the senior Congress leader is everything, everywhere, all
[0:29] Speaker 1: at once.
[0:30] Speaker 2: In the constant loop of.
[0:31] Speaker 1: Congress protests starting last week, Gandhi has been the key figure,
[0:34] Speaker 1: leaders say, from ensuring that all Congress MPs turn up
[0:38] Speaker 1: for the demonstrations to holding meetings late into the night
[0:41] Speaker 1: with his core team, including sister Priyanka Gandhi-Padra. to getting
[0:45] Speaker 1: India bloc allies on board. Party leaders credit this micromanagement
[0:50] Speaker 1: with ensuring that the protest against the BJP-led government and
[0:53] Speaker 1: Chief Election Commission Gyanesh Kumar have not only drawn a
[0:57] Speaker 1: full India bloc turnout, but also civil society groups and
[1:01] Speaker 1: student activists. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court yesterday issued a notice
[1:09] Speaker 1: on a batch of more than 40 petitions arising from
[1:12] Speaker 1: the 10th and 11th of October protests in the capital
[1:16] Speaker 1: seeking the resignations of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and
[1:19] Speaker 1: agreed to examine the Delhi Palace's denotification of Jantar Mantar
[1:23] Speaker 1: as a protest site.
[1:25] Speaker 2: In an hour-long.
[1:26] Speaker 1: Charged hearing, a bench comprising Chief Justice of India Suryakant
[1:30] Speaker 1: and Justice Joybala Bakshi also directed the police to preserve
[1:34] Speaker 1: all CCTV footage of the protest amid allegations of excessive
[1:37] Speaker 1: use of force by police.
[1:43] Speaker 2: And next, we take a look at an Indian Express.
[1:46] Speaker 1: Investigation that uncovers a potential conflict of interest at a
[1:49] Speaker 1: state-run defence firm which issued a single tender to a
[1:53] Speaker 1: private company founded by its former chief and his wife
[1:57] Speaker 1: by citing urgency to bypass competitive bidding. The state firm
[2:01] Speaker 1: marked a significant departure from its procurement processes in the
[2:06] Speaker 1: previous two years. So for the first time in three years,
[2:09] Speaker 1: Bhartiya Dynamics Limited has turned to a private company to
[2:12] Speaker 1: supply optical sights for its missiles and it has done so,
[2:17] Speaker 1: raising questions of conflict of interest and propriety. Citing urgency,
[2:21] Speaker 1: the Hyderabad-based Defence PSU issued a single tender without competition
[2:26] Speaker 1: for the optical sights to a company that its former
[2:29] Speaker 1: chairman and managing director Siddharth Mishra and his wife set
[2:33] Speaker 1: up after he retired. Today, that company is 95% owned
[2:37] Speaker 1: by Mishra's wife.
[2:38] Speaker 2: Sambhavi Mishra. In other major news, many of.
[2:46] Speaker 1: You would be aware of the Angel Priya, the infamous
[2:49] Speaker 1: catfishing persona that became an internet.
[2:51] Speaker 2: Meme in the 2010s, appears to have now found.
[2:55] Speaker 1: An unlikely echo in the alleged naval espionage operation in Vishakhapatnam.
[3:00] Speaker 1: A woman using the Facebook name Angel Payal allegedly introduced
[3:05] Speaker 1: two employees of an engineering company at the Vishakhapatnam Naval
[3:09] Speaker 1: Dockyard to each other online, after which one allegedly induced
[3:13] Speaker 1: the other to share information about the number of ships
[3:16] Speaker 1: and submarines at the restricted facility with suspected Pakistan-linked operatives
[3:20] Speaker 1: in exchange for money, investigators have said.
[3:27] Speaker 2: And in the end, in.
[3:28] Speaker 1: News making global headlines, US President Donald Trump has said
[3:31] Speaker 1: that the execution of Nidal Hassan, the US Army doctor
[3:34] Speaker 1: who killed 13 people at the Fort Hood military base
[3:37] Speaker 1: in 2019.
[3:38] Speaker 2: Will not be live-streamed.
[3:40] Speaker 1: The development follows bipartisan criticism of the announcement and Vice
[3:44] Speaker 1: President J.D.
[3:45] Speaker 2: Vance said he couldn't watch.
[3:47] Speaker 1: For those who may not know already, Hassan was convicted
[3:50] Speaker 1: of killing 13 people and injuring dozens of others in
[3:53] Speaker 1: the 2019 shooting. The Pentagon has said the execution scheduled
[3:58] Speaker 1: for 3 December, as Trump wrote in his post, that
[4:01] Speaker 1: it can be viewed in person by immediate families of
[4:03] Speaker 1: the victim.

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