A Delhi court, while granting bail to Aam Aadmi Party leader Satyendar Jain, said the Anti-Corruption Bureau had arrested him in an arbitrary and hurried manner in the case related to alleged irregularities in the tendering process for sewage treatment plant projects in the national capital. Jain had been arrested on August 18 along with former Delhi Jal Board Chief Executive Officer Udit Prakash Rai and four others.The court noted that there was an unexplained and extraordinary delay of 27 months between the first information report being registered and Jain being arrested.The judge also said that there were no phone call records or text messages that could, at this stage, connect him to the alleged kickbacks and hawala transactions involving the other accused persons. It is unclear if the other accused persons were also granted bail. Read on.American writer and feminist activist Gloria Steinem died in New York at 92. Her foundation said on social media that her “near-century on earth were years well-lived, and she continued working for equality until the very end”.Steinem started as a journalist in the 1960s, writing a feature on contraception that detailed how women were forced to choose between motherhood and careers. She followed this with an expose on sexism faced by cocktail waitresses at nightclubs owned and operated by Playboy Enterprises.In the 1950s, Steinem lived in India for nearly two years after graduating from college. During her time here, she worked as a clerk at the Supreme Court and helped women organise non-violent protests against government policies, according to media reports. Read on.Gloria Steinem (1934–2026): What we learnt from her 2015 memoir, ‘My Life on the Road’Bharatiya Janata Party MP Raghav Chadha claimed that his name was deleted from the draft voter list prepared during the special intensive revision of electoral rolls in Punjab. He alleged that this was a “clear case of political vendetta” by the Aam Aadmi Party government in the state.On the other hand, the Aam Aadmi Party maintained that the voter roll revision exercise was conducted by the Election Commission and the state government has “no role in deciding whose name is included or deleted”.Chadha had quoted the guidelines issued by the poll panel for the exercise as stating that public representatives should be included in the draft rolls. Read on.The Supreme Court refused to entertain a petition challenging orders by the Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan governments restricting entry into public schools of outsiders, journalists, YouTubers and civil society representatives. The BJP government in both states had also mandated that permission must be taken for photography, videography, interviews, audio recording and livestreaming inside schools.The orders had come against the backdrop of a nationwide drive of the Cockroach Janta Party political campaign to improve the condition of government schools. The campaign has been sharing videos of schools on social media recorded by its volunteers in several states. Read on.The final details of India’s trade deal with the United States will be announced once Washington is able to give New Delhi a tariff advantage over competing countries, said Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal. He also claimed that India had secured a good deal in “every sensitive sector”, such as agriculture, fisheries and micro, small and medium enterprises.The minister added that the country’s goods exports had continued to grow in August and urged industry associations to set ambitious export targets. Read on. If you haven’t already, sign up for our Daily Brief newsletter.