Pakistan Pulls the Trigger, the World Looks Away

By BPN News Desk April 25, 2025

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The bodies weren’t even cold in Pahalgam when the world began drafting its familiar eulogies. Twenty-six lives, mostly Indian, cut down by terrorists in Kashmir’s once-bustling tourist belt. Mothers. Children. A Nepali tourist who had dreams of returning home. What followed was the usual

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Kashmir’s Tragedy: When Stones Are Worth More Than Saddle Rides

By Editor - News Desk April 23, 2025

The recent Pahalgam terror attack that left 26 tourists dead wasn’t just another bloody statistic in Jammu and Kashmir’s three-decade-long saga of violence—it was a gut punch to whatever remnants of normalcy the region was rebuilding. What followed, however, was unexpected. For the first time in years, Kashmiris observed a shutdown not against security forces, […]

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The Hidden Harvest of Tariff Wars: How the U.S. Uses Trade to Push Its Crops, Not Cars

By BPN News Desk April 11, 2025

The headlines may make it seem like the world is witnessing a tussle between industrial titans, a fierce standoff over steel, semiconductors, and supercars. But behind the curtain of global trade rhetoric lies a quieter, less glamorous truth—this isn’t just about automobiles and industrial policy. It’s about agriculture. It’s about lentils and soybean oil. And, […]

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From Celebrity Endorsements to Family Suicides: The Blood Money of India’s Gambling Boom

By BPN News Desk April 8, 2025

In one corner of India, you’ll see Shah Rukh Khan grinning ear-to-ear, urging you to play responsibly on a “fantasy” gaming app. In another, a grieving family in Andhra Pradesh hangs itself after the son’s ₹30 lakh online gambling debt proves too heavy to bear. Welcome to the surreal contradiction that is India’s online gaming […]

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Trump’s Tariff Tantrum: How Russia Accidentally Got a Seat at the Grown-Ups’ Table

By BPN News Desk April 7, 2025

In a week where the global economy had already been flirting with anxiety, Donald Trump decided to kick it square in the teeth. With his fresh announcement of sweeping tariffs — a 10% baseline duty on virtually all imports, and even steeper penalties for countries that, in his words, have “taken advantage” of the U.S. […]

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India’s Aimless Opposition: A Democracy Without Dissent

By BPN News Desk April 6, 2025

A democracy without dissent is like biryani without spices—bland, pointless, and ultimately forgettable. India, the world’s largest democracy, proudly conducts elections with military precision and media fanfare. The only missing ingredient in this grand democratic theatre? An opposition that actually opposes. Not performatively. Not selectively. But consistently and

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Hyderabad’s Green Massacre: The Telangana Government’s Silent War on Forests and Accountability

By BPN News Desk April 6, 2025

In the dead of Hyderabad’s sweltering March, the chainsaws roared louder than public dissent, clearing nearly 400 acres of green cover in Kancha Gachibowli. What was once a haven for peacocks and deer is now reduced to soil scraped bare—thanks to the Telangana government’s covert operation to build yet another “IT park.” But beneath the […]

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The IPL: India’s Most Perfect Metaphor for Unity in Diversity

By BPN News Desk March 29, 2025

There is no better symbol of India than the Indian Premier League. A tournament built around states, languages, and cities somehow manages to rise above all of them. It brings together people from every corner of the country and even outside it, and yet, nobody bothers asking, “Where are you from?” when you’re hitting sixes […]

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Project Cheetah: A Bold Vision Undermined by Poor Planning and Avoidable Mistakes

By BPN News Desk March 26, 2025

It was supposed to be a roaring success—India’s grand plan to reintroduce the cheetah, the fastest land animal, to its historical home. Project Cheetah was painted as a global conservation masterstroke, complete with dramatic airlifts from Africa and ceremonial photo-ops in Kuno National Park. Seventy years after India saw its last cheetah, the government triumphantly […]

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Karma for Kamra: When Free Speech Becomes a Convenient Cause

By BPN News Desk March 24, 2025

Kunal Kamra is hurt. Not physically—though a vandalized comedy venue can certainly bruise the ego—but morally, philosophically, democratically. The comedian is now the poster child for free speech, surrounded by the usual sound bites: “intolerance,” “fascism,” “muzzling dissent.” And right behind him, waving the same banner, is the Shiv Sena (UBT) faction, suddenly