The operator of the paying guest facilities in a five-storey building in Satya Niketan was arrested, three days after the structure collapsed, killing seven persons.The police said that Sudhanshu and his business partner, Shubham Tyagi, had leased the property from its owner in August 2025. Tyagi is absconding.Sudhanshu is the fifth person to be arrested in the case. The building’s owner, Hari Ram, his son Mahesh, his wife Urmila and a labour contractor named Saroj were arrested earlier. Read on.Why social media thinks government intentionally slowed internet after Delhi building collapse, reports Anant GuptaThe Uttar Pradesh government will challenge the Allahabad High Court order quashing the National Security Act detention of a 25-year-old Delhi University graduate who was arrested after a workers’ protest in Noida. Gautam Buddha Nagar District Magistrate Medha Roopam will separately appeal the ruling.The Act allows for long periods of detention without trial up to a year.The High Court on September 2 quashed Akriti Chaudhary’s preventive detention and directed the authorities to pay her Rs 5 lakh in compensation. It described the district magistrate’s conduct as “worthy of derision” and said that she was “guilty of violating her oath of allegiance”. Read on.The Supreme Court asked how the Greater Noida executive magistrate could “dare” to issue a notice last week to a student for allegedly campaigning for the youth protests led by the Cockroach Janta Party. “We made it clear that no coercive action should be taken against any student,” said a bench led by Chief Justice Surya Kant.Akshat Tripathi, a 20-year-old law student at Gautam Buddha University, had been served the notice on Friday by the executive magistrate after a police report alleged that he was instigating other students to participate in a proposed protest. The notice was withdrawn the following day. Read on.Twenty legislators of the Opposition Bharat Rashtra Samithi were suspended from the Telangana Assembly for the rest of the Monsoon Session, which will conclude on Friday. The decision came after more than an hour of confrontation between the ruling Congress and the BRS.BRS legislators demanding “justice” for K Chandrashekar Rao, the leader of Opposition in the Assembly, over alleged disparaging remarks made about him by Congress MLA Veerlapally Shankar. On the other hand, the Congress alleged that BRS workers in Siddipet had performed a purification ritual after Dalit leaders held a protest there. Read on.A researcher at artificial intelligence company Anthropic has quit, claiming that he is concerned the firm and the industry are racing to build AI systems that he believes they will not be able to control. In a series of social media posts on Wednesday, Jacob Coxon said that people should not underestimate the power of AI. “These will soon be superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionise any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources,” he said. “We have all witnessed the progress in each of these domains, and progress is not slowing.”Anthropic has not yet commented on Coxon’s resignation, or on the concerns he raised. Read on. If you haven’t already, sign up for our Daily Brief newsletter.
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