GST vs UPI: How Bureaucracy Hijacked Digital India’s Crown Jewel

By BPN News Desk July 21, 2025

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India’s digital economy was supposed to be a story of empowerment — of chaiwalas flashing QR codes, fruit vendors skipping change hassles, and small businesses riding the wave of UPI-powered inclusion. But just when the country seemed to be turning the corner on cash, the bureaucracy decided to

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Speaking Hindi Won’t Pay the Rent: India’s Language Wars Have No Economic Logic

By BPN News Desk July 8, 2025

The language protests currently raging in Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu have been framed as spontaneous outbursts of regional pride. But scratch the surface, and you find a deeper, more cynical game afoot—one that has very little to do with economic progress and everything to do with political calculus. Let’s start with the basics. India’s […]

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From NATO to BRICS: Why Everyone Hates the U.S. President Right Now (and They’re Not Wrong)

By BPN News Desk July 8, 2025

If Donald Trump were to ever win the Nobel Peace Prize, it would surely be for services rendered to global instability, ego-centric diplomacy, and catastrophic blundering at an international level. His second term in office has not just solidified America’s isolation but managed to make the unthinkable possible: he has united the world, not through […]

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Grounded by Silence: How India’s Information Vacuum Hurt Dassault

By BPN News Desk July 7, 2025

Operation Sindoor was supposed to be a defining moment for Indian airpower. With deep-penetration strikes, the use of BrahMos cruise missiles, and long-range drones evading Pakistani air defences, the mission was a resounding tactical success. Among the many aircraft involved, the French-built Rafale fighter jet was presumed to have played a key role, striking targets […]

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Illegal Encroachment Is the Track Blocker: Until the Railways Clears Land, Nothing Will Move in Mumbai

By BPN News Desk June 10, 2025

Every few months, the Indian Railways or the Maharashtra government announces some shiny new initiative for Mumbai’s overburdened local train network—AC coaches, automatic doors, swanky footover bridges, and digital ticketing kiosks. But for the average Mumbaikar clinging to the footboard of a jam-packed 8:42 AM Virar fast, these announcements are like putting scented

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Killing Quietly: The Feminization of Violence in Middle India

By BPN News Desk June 9, 2025

As Indian women in small towns gain access to digital tools, private mobility, and emotional autonomy, a new kind of violence is emerging—quiet, deliberate, and often chillingly methodical. The Myth of the Passive Woman Is Breaking For years, Indian society has clung to the image of the woman as the sacrificial, subdued half of the […]

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Crude Lies: The Truth Behind India’s Static Fuel Prices in a Falling Oil Market

By BPN News Desk June 5, 2025

In a world where every rupee counts, Indian fuel consumers find themselves caught in a peculiar paradox. Crude oil prices have been tumbling on the global stage—by over 15% in recent months—yet the cost of filling up your tank in Mumbai, Delhi, or Bangalore has barely moved an inch. The numbers simply don’t add up, […]

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Buzzing Into Oblivion: What Russia’s UVB-76 Tells Us About the World’s Sleepwalk Into Nuclear Madness

By BPN News Desk June 3, 2025

There was a time when the faint buzz of a Soviet-era shortwave signal sent chills down the spines of Cold War analysts. That sound — mechanical, monotonous, and ceaseless — belonged to UVB-76, nicknamed “The Buzzer.” It was mysterious, it was ominous, and above all, it was never silent. But now, in 2025, that static […]

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Selective Justice Is Injustice: The State vs. Sharmishta Panoli

By BPN News Desk June 3, 2025

A 22-year-old law student from Pune, Sharmishta Panoli, is currently behind bars. Her offense? A now-deleted Instagram reel in which she criticized the silence of Bollywood over Operation Sindoor and used words some deemed communal. She deleted the video. She apologized. But none of that mattered to the West Bengal Police, who travelled across the […]

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IMF Loans by Day, Jihad Rallies by Night: The Pakistan Model

By BPN News Desk May 31, 2025

On May 28, the city of Kasur in Pakistan’s Punjab province witnessed a scene that should have sent shockwaves across the globe. On stage, addressing a crowd under banners of nuclear pride and anti-India slogans, stood not only Pakistani ministers like Malik Rasheed Ahmad Khan and Malik Muhammad Ahmad Khan, but also some of the […]