US-Controlled Venezuelan Oil: Opportunity or Trap for India?

By BPN News Desk January 4, 2026

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The renewed global focus on Venezuelan oil is not accidental. It follows the capture of President Nicolás Maduro, open statements by US President Donald Trump about the United States “running Venezuela,” and his blunt remark that countries buying Russian oil may soon be buying “Venezuelan

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Iraq Yesterday, Venezuela Today, Your Country Tomorrow

By BPN News Desk January 3, 2026

The world likes to believe it learns from its mistakes. Iraq proved that belief to be a comforting lie. Two decades after a country was invaded, dismantled, and pushed into chaos on the promise of weapons that never existed, there has been no real accountability. No consequences for those who sold the war. No punishment […]

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Open Letter to Gurpatwant Singh Pannun and the SFJ Circus

By BPN News Desk January 3, 2026

This open letter is for Gurpatwant Singh Pannun and his farcical outfit, Sikhs For Justice. Let’s stop dressing this up as ideology or resistance. It isn’t. What you do is noise. Cheap, calculated noise, delivered from a safe distance because distance is the only thing giving you a voice. You are loud not because you […]

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When Indian Footballers Beg, Fans Should Look in the Mirror

By BPN News Desk January 3, 2026

Watching Indian footballers publicly appeal to FIFA to save football in their own country is not just embarrassing. It is painful. These are professional athletes, national representatives, men who have spent years training, travelling, and sacrificing for the sport. Seeing them plead for the basic right to play football should force a moment of collective […]

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No Contest, No Choice: How Maharashtra’s Local Polls Betray Democracy

By BPN News Desk January 3, 2026

The recent round of local body elections in Maharashtra has revealed something deeply unsettling. Dozens of municipal seats were decided without a single vote being cast. Candidates walked into office unopposed, not because they were universally loved or widely trusted, but because no one dared or bothered to challenge them. On paper, elections were held. […]

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Mamdani Appoints Al Qaeda Defender Ramzi Kassem as the Left Stays Silent

By BPN News Desk January 3, 2026

Zohran Mamdani’s decision to elevate Ramzi Kassem to a powerful government legal role is not a footnote. It is a choice that signals priorities, values, and moral boundaries. Calling Kassem a “champion of rights” does not change the core fact that he has defended an Al Qaeda–linked terrorist. In public office, symbolism matters. And this […]

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Iltija Mufti Must Answer for Jihadism Before Attacking Hindutva

By BPN News Desk January 3, 2026

Ms Iltija Mufti, When you declare that you “won’t allow Hindutva” in Kashmir, you speak with the confidence of moral authority. But moral authority is not asserted by volume or applause. It is earned through consistency, memory, and the willingness to confront uncomfortable truths. Before attacking Hindutva as a singular menace, it would help to […]

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Did Sayaji Shinde Pay the Price for Opposing Tapovan and Kumbh Tree Felling?

By BPN News Desk January 3, 2026

This is not an abstract fight. This is not a poetic lament about forests. This is about Tapovan. This is about trees cut in the name of the Kumbh. This is about power, permissions, and punishment. Sayaji Shinde did something most people with comfort, visibility, and social standing carefully avoid. He directly opposed tree felling […]

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Indian Gig Economy Strike and the Role of Kamra and Rathee in Narrative Sabotage

By BPN News Desk January 2, 2026

The Indian gig economy is booming, not failing. Yet just as the sector crossed a major growth milestone, a strategically timed strike was aggressively turned into a political spectacle by Kunal Kamra and Dhruv Rathee. What began as a labour dispute was deliberately weaponised into a narrative attack on a fast-growing Indian industry, portraying growth […]

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Indore Water Deaths Are a Crime, Not an Administrative Slip

By BPN News Desk January 2, 2026

People in Indore were poisoned by their own government. Sewage entered the drinking water supply, complaints were ignored, the flow was not stopped, and citizens kept consuming contaminated water until bodies began piling up in hospitals. This was not misfortune. This was the state failing at its most basic duty and then attempting to talk […]