Top news of the day: ABVP wins 3 DUSU posts; independent candidate gets vice-president’s position; Japan’s Emperor opens Asian Games in Nagoya with colourful ceremony, and more

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The RSS-affiliated ABVP won three of the four central panel posts in the high-profile Delhi University Students’ Union election. | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma

The RSS-affiliated ABVP won three of the four central panel posts in the high-profile Delhi University Students’ Union election, while independent candidate Deepanshu Shokeen, who was denied an NSUI ticket, won the vice-president’s post. The Congress-backed NSUI failed to secure any of the four central panel posts, with the ABVP winning the president, secretary and joint secretary positions.

A 22-year-old student of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay ended his life in his hostel room after he was allegedly caught using a mobile phone during an examination, according to a statement by the institution. Sahil Ravindra Wakode was a second-year B.Tech. Energy Science and Engineering student, and hailed from Maharashtra’s Yavatmal district, police said.

The Asian Games opened on Saturday (September 19, 2026) in Nagoya, Japan, with an opening ceremony in which the Indian contingent took part, led by Manu Bhaker and Pawan Sehrawat.

An early warning system for disasters will be implemented as a “top priority” in Nepal, said Prime Minister Balendra Shah on Saturday (September 19, 2026). The Bhotekoshi flash floods, triggered by an ice-rock avalanche near the Nepal-Tibet border on August 26, devastated towns and villages in northern and central Nepal, killing over 1,400 people and leaving over 6,000 missing as of Friday (September 18, 2026).

The president of the Olympic Council of Asia acknowledged on Saturday (September 19, 2026) that politics — in the form of a welcoming ceremony involving Taiwan — had already entered into the Asian Games. He did not sound pleased about it, speaking just hours before the official opening ceremony on Saturday (September 19, 2026).

West Bengal police officials on Saturday (September 19, 2026) said that the arrest of the Nandigram Congress candidate on Friday (September 18) was a lawful step for the police. The cases against him are 19 years old, and some also include murder and attempt to murder charges.

Nineteen migrant workers from West Bengal who were detained in Chhattisgarh on suspicion of being Bangladeshi nationals have been released on Friday (September 18, 2026).These workers are mostly residents of Murshidabad’s Samserganj and Sahabad areas. They went to Chhattisgarh in search of work, where they have also been selling goods house-to-house in the Bilaspur area.

Students of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Itanagar, suspended all academic activities indefinitely following an alleged assault that left several students and a two-time National Award-winning faculty member injured.

Activist Sonam Wangchuk has announced that he will lead a 20-km symbolic march in Leh on September 23, 2026, to safeguard Ladakh’s culture, environment, and democracy.