Bangladesh Targets Indian Naval Academy? Six arrested in four days in Kannur; probe begins
A 32-year-old Bangladeshi national, Viplav Soren, working as temporary staff at Indian Naval Academy Ezhimala was arrested, 6th Bangladeshi held in Kannur in 4 days. Police also arrested 5 women working at a spa with fake Indian documents obtained from Assam.
DUSU Election Results 2026 Declared: ABVP wins 3 posts, Independent bags VP
DUSU Election Results 2026 have been declared. ABVP’s Yash Dabas won the President position, Independent candidate Deepanshu Shokeen won Vice President, ABVP’s Riya Chhawdi became Secretary and Lakshya Raj Singh was elected Joint Secretary.
‘Returning the bottle’: BJP’s Ravneet Bittu detained after waving liquor bottle at Bhagwant Mann’s convoy
BJP leader Ravneet Singh Bittu was detained during a protest outside Punjab Agricultural University as Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann’s convoy passed through the area.
DUSU Election Results: Who is Deepanshu Shokeen? Independent candidate wins Vice-President post
Deepanshu Shokeen won DUSU Vice-President 2026 as an Independent with 13,527 votes. From Peeragarhi, son of bus conductor and anganwadi worker, Buddhist Studies student who left NSUI after ticket denial.
Who is Yash Dabas? ABVP’s DUSU president, international tennis player who faced marksheet controversy
Yash Dabas, the ABVP candidate who faced questions over a purported marksheet during the DUSU campaign, has won the Delhi University Students’ Union president’s post with 24,576 votes.
‘No Goonj, only Dhamaka’: BJP mocks Rahul Gandhi after ABVP’s big win in Delhi University polls
After ABVP won three of the four key DUSU posts, Union ministers and BJP leaders targeted Rahul Gandhi’s recent ‘Chhatron Ki Goonj’ outreach, while independent candidate Deepanshu Shokeen won the vice-president’s post.
Delhi SIR: CM Rekha Gupta, Arvind Kejriwal among 33 lakh voters served notice for discrepancies
Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta and former Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal are among 3.31 million voters served notices in the Special Identity Register (SIR). Rekha Gupta was flagged for a parental age gap of less than 15 years.
‘Everything is finished’: 7 members of Odisha family die after vehicle swept away by stream in MP
Seven members of a Bhubaneswar family and their driver died after their vehicle was swept away by a swollen stream in Madhya Pradesh’s Agar Malwa district while they were on a pilgrimage.
Congressman Tom Barrett: ‘Being a socialist should disqualify him for people’s consideration in my district’
Control of Congress may very well run through Michigan’s seventh district. Anchored by Lansing, the state capital, it features a large blue city, surrounded by reddish suburbs, and deep red rural areas. It is consistently described as one of the closest swing districts in the country. Freshman Congressman Tom Barrett narrowly won the district in 2024, and is now locked in a tight race with William Lawrence, an activist and founder of the climate change-focused Sunrise Movement. Barrett is a 21-year Army veteran helicopter pilot, who served numerous deployments overseas, before returning to Michigan and spending nearly a decade in the state legislature. 7 REPUBLICANS REBEL AGAINST TRUMP, VOTE WITH DEMS TO REIN IN IRAN WAR POWERS The race has recently been roiled by a series of controversial social media posts. In some of them, Lawrence called the nuclear family “an isolating, violent way of organizing society” and praised campaigns to abolish the police. He now claims that his views have changed. Barrett argues that the newfound shift is about political expediency, not genuine conviction: “I think we got to take him at his word that this was his absolute true ideology and it wasn’t just this one statement that he made. He made repetitive statements against police, calling to not just defund but abolish the police altogether. He wanted to throw open the borders. He said if we’re a humane country, we’ve got to throw open the borders and redistribute all of the wealth. “He called the nuclear family a violent way to organize society, as you said. Countless other statements that he’s made and other things that he has done that show a pattern of behavior that this is not an isolated incident. “And obviously it’s clear to any neutral observer that he is doing this because he is running in a competitive district trying to get elected to Congress. He’s not running in Rashida Tlaib‘s district or AOC’s district where they’re far more sympathetic to these DSA-aligned socialist candidates. He’s running in the district that I live in where I’m raising my own nuclear family.” Barrett contends that the implementation of Lawrence’s border and immigration policies would pose a clear and present danger to the safety of Americans: “Well, the foremost obvious risk of these open border policies of my opponent is just starting with the public safety threat. So take out all of the other economic factors: just the physical threats to our communities are substantial. “There are criminal gang activities. We have cartels that were freely operating both ways across the border under the Biden administration. We had upwards of ten or even fifteen million illegal immigrants that came into our country completely unvetted.” Barrett also argues that the fentanyl crisis is directly tied to border and immigration policies as well. “The leading cause of death of Americans my age wasn’t cancer, wasn’t heart disease, it was fentanyl overdose deaths. People that I served with in the military that came home and survived combat and died of fentanyl overdose…because of drugs that were pouring across our border. “For the first time in my life, we have seen a significant decline in fentanyl overdose deaths, really because of the efforts…to secure our border, and my opponent, William Lawrence, would entirely reverse that, throw the border open again, abolish the police at the same time. “And we can only assume the outcome of that would be far more Americans dying of fentanyl deaths, as well as gang activity and other tragic circumstances that arise when you have an open border and no public safety to protect Americans.” William Lawrence is also a longtime member of the DSA (Democratic Socialists of America), but recently claims that he let his membership lapse. Barrett argues that Lawrence remains a fervent believer in socialist ideology, but is merely trying to downplay his true beliefs to win a competitive race: “Well, I think being a socialist should disqualify him for people’s consideration in my district. You look at the tenets of socialism and what they want to do and the endorsement of that. MICHIGAN DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE TRIES TO JUSTIFY DELETED POSTS THAT REVEAL FAR-LEFT BELIEFS “My opponent…cleverly claims that he let his membership lapse, I don’t know, two weeks before the primary election on the eve of him winning…to face off against me in one of the most competitive congressional races in the country that will arguably decide control of the House of Representatives. “So he doesn’t disavow the democratic socialists…He has embraced all of their positions, gathered all of their support, really benefited from the support of the democratic socialist movement. “And then when the time comes to defend those positions, he wants to say, well I let my membership lapse so you can’t hold me accountable for all their positions. But I didn’t leave under any actual disagreement with them. I’m simply leaving for political reasons because he’s so focused on trying to win this election in a desperate attempt to not be accountable to his own record, but to distract away from the devastating effects of socialism and what that would mean for our country if he were to be elected.” Perhaps the most controversial of Lawrence’s statements involved a post expressing frustration and outrage with politicians on climate policy. Lawrence, specifically targeting West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, wrote: ‘Hurry up and die so that we can get started.” Barrett believes that this type of rhetoric should put the voters of the seventh district on high alert: “Obviously that’s entirely inappropriate, something that should really raise the attention of every single reasonable American to say that that’s not how we go about our rhetoric here in our country. Politics is a full contact sport…but I’ve never in my political life, in any campaign, called on political figures to ‘F you and hurry up and die.’ “And that shows the radicalization…He was a founding member of the Green New Deal Alliance in Michigan, calling to ban gasoline-powered vehicles that
Lawyer says 250-foot Trump arch disrupts historic sightlines cherished by veterans seeking burial at Arlington
President Donald Trump’s proposed 250-foot arch at Memorial Circle in Washington, D.C.—which he said would be the largest in the world—is being opposed by three Vietnam veterans who say the project would block views between the Lincoln Memorial, Arlington National Cemetery, and Arlington House, some of the most well-known views in and around the city. Veterans Michael Lemmon, Shaun Byrnes, and Jon Gundersen—along with architectural historian Calder Loth—have been engaged in a months-long legal battle with the Trump administration over the “Great Triumphal Arch”. “Our plaintiffs are three Vietnam veterans and an architectural historian. All of them have a deep personal relationship with Arlington National Cemetery,” Nicolas Sansone, an attorney with the Public Citizen Litigation Group representing the plaintiffs, told Fox News Digital. “Two of our veteran plaintiffs hope to be buried there.” DEMS UNLOAD ON TRUMP’S LATEST DC UPDATE WITH ‘CHRISTIAN NATIONALIST’ BROADSIDE, LEGAL PUSH Trump has said the arch should be built near Arlington National Cemetery, which serves as the final resting place for more than 400,000 military service members. Critics of the project contend that the planned structure is disrespectful to the solemn character of the cemetery. In addition, the Trump administration acknowledged in a planning document that the project will have “adverse effects on historic properties”. “Such adverse effects cannot be fully avoided while retaining the location-dependent purpose of the undertaking,” the National Park Service wrote in the document. The nation’s capital was designed to keep historic landmarks from being obscured by other structures, Sansone said. LINCOLN MEMORIAL’S HIDDEN 15,000-SQUARE-FOOT UNDERCROFT OPENS TO THE PUBLIC AFTER A CENTURY UNDERGROUND “One of the sort of central design features is that the capital has been laid out in a very deliberate way to create this uninterrupted view between the Lincoln Memorial on the east side of the Potomac River and Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee Memorial, on the west side in Arlington National Cemetery,” he said. “So our plaintiffs… are really sort of concerned about the impact that this sort of enormous structure is going to have on that sort of historic symbolic view that each of them finds really meaningful,” he added. GOLDEN EAGLES, LIONS AND A WINGED LADY LIBERTY TOP TRUMP’S PROPOSED 250-FOOT DC TRIUMPHAL ARCH DESIGNS Earlier this month, the administration announced that excavation work for the project would begin within the next two weeks. The plaintiffs have asked a federal judge to issue a temporary restraining order to keep the project from moving forward, saying it can’t be built without authorization from Congress. TRUMP SIGNS ACT CLEARING THE WAY FOR MEDAL OF HONOR MONUMENT ON NATIONAL MALL The Trump administration has cited a 1925 law that originally authorized a pair of 166-foot columns in Washington, D.C., that were never built. Administration officials argue that past congressional approval grandfathers the triumphal arch project and allows them to avoid authorization from Congress. “The idea is that really it’s just an institutional question of who gets to decide: Is it one person, the person sitting in the White House, or should it be a sort of democratic deliberative process to sort of figure out what these monuments should look like, where they should be situated, what they should commemorate, and the like,” Sansone said. “Congress’s authorization to have a particular project built at a particular time subject to a specific price cap by a now-disbanded commission can’t reasonably be relied on to authorize a totally different independent project that’s going to cost way more money centuries into the future,” he added.