Overnight editors led with Trump signing the Russia sanctions law authorizing up to 100% tariffs on buyers of Russian oil, with Delhi responding it would not operate under pressure.
Attention shifted to Bengal where, a day after the Nandigram withdrawal, Mamata camp's Rejinagar nominee Rabiul Alam Chowdhury withdrew citing loss of the old symbol, then reversed after speaking to Mamata to contest the October 6 bypoll.
By midday counting in Delhi University displaced Bengal, ABVP taking president, secretary and joint secretary while NSUI rebel Deepanshu Shokeen won vice-president as an independent, shutting out NSUI. BJP framed it as a rebuttal to Rahul Gandhi's Indore 'students' voice' attack on the system.
Evening closed with EC's SIR notices to the Kejriwal family, CM Rekha Gupta and others, and the IIT Bombay suicide case handed to the Crime Branch after a caste-abuse complaint.