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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 […]

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Ikkis and Bollywood’s Pakistan Fantasy Turns Into Moral Dilution

By BPN News Desk January 2, 2026

The film Ikkis presents itself as a tribute to the 1971 war and the sacrifice of Lt Arun Khetarpal, Param Vir Chakra. On the surface, it claims to honour courage, duty, and loss. But beneath that intention lies a familiar Bollywood instinct that has long distorted how India’s wars with Pakistan are remembered. The problem […]

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Why a Ukrainian Attack on Putin’s Residence Makes Little Strategic Sense

By BPN News Desk December 30, 2025

The claim that Ukraine may have attacked the residence of Vladimir Putin with drones sounds dramatic, but drama is not strategy. When you strip away emotion, propaganda, and speculation, the idea quickly falls apart under basic logic. Wars, especially at this stage, are not fought on impulse. They are fought on calculation. And by that […]

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Maharashtra Local Body Elections and the Cost of a Vote

By BPN News Desk December 21, 2025

Reports and rumours of up to ₹15,000 being paid for a single vote during Maharashtra’s local body elections initially sounded excessive, even by Indian electoral standards. But once the results were declared, with margins in several places collapsing to one vote, two votes, or a handful of ballots, the picture became harder to dismiss. This […]

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Why Does Rahul Gandhi Keep Meeting Figures Linked to George Soros?

By BPN News Desk December 20, 2025

This is not a conspiracy theory, nor is it an allegation of illegality or treason. It is a legitimate political question arising from a specific and recent event that deserves clarity. Just yesterday, Rahul Gandhi, India’s Leader of the Opposition, addressed an audience at the Hertie School in Berlin during his visit to Germany. The […]

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From Jihad to Jhola: Pakistan’s Two Most Reliable Exports

By BPN News Desk December 19, 2025

Pakistan has finally perfected its export model. After decades of trial and error, the country now has two globally recognised, consistently delivered products. Terrorists and beggars. One destabilises regions, the other humiliates the nation. Both travel well, both embarrass allies, and neither requires industrial policy, innovation, or governance. Saudi Arabia’s recent

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Dear Bangladesh, Blame India If You Want, But Fix Your Politics First

By BPN News Desk December 19, 2025

Grief has a way of demanding villains before it demands facts. In Bangladesh today, that villain is once again India, summoned reflexively even as the most basic questions remain unanswered at home. Let us put one thing on the table immediately and without diplomatic sugarcoating. India is not in the business of killing mosquitos abroad. […]

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Changing the AQI Won’t Change What We Breathe

By BPN News Desk December 18, 2025

India’s air pollution crisis was never a mystery. It was visible, measurable, and deadly. Smog-filled winters, rising asthma cases, emergency room surges, and repeated judicial interventions made one thing clear: the air was toxic, and the state was failing to control it. Faced with this reality, the government had two choices. Fix the problem or […]