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

When BPN published its analysis titled “The Hidden Harvest of Tariff Wars: How the U.S. Uses Trade to Push Its Crops, Not Cars,” we highlighted what many mainstream outlets ignored: that the United States wasn’t just pushing for tech and tariff parity—it was aggressively targeting India’s agriculture sector, particularly edible oil. The article forecasted a […]

China didn’t need a single soldier in fatigues to secure influence over Kabul. It didn’t fire a missile, arm a militia, or deploy a drone. All it did was roll out a red carpet — and both Pakistan and the Taliban walked right in. The recent trilateral summit in Beijing, featuring China as mediator between […]

In the realm of Indian politics, few documents have generated as much intrigue and as little transparency as the Vohra Committee Report. Commissioned in the aftermath of one of India’s darkest security lapses—the 1993 Bombay blasts—the report was expected to expose the deep-rooted nexus between crime, politics, and bureaucracy. Instead, it turned into something far […]

Agriculture in India, while foundational to the economy and livelihoods of over half the population, is paradoxically both a victim and a contributor to environmental degradation. On the one hand, Indian farmers face the brunt of erratic monsoons, depleting groundwater, and declining soil fertility driven by climate change. On the other, conventional agricultural

In 2025, as the U.S.–China tariff war escalated under the second Trump administration, global supply chains began a significant and urgent realignment. Amid this turbulence, India found itself uniquely positioned to absorb trade redirected away from China, especially in electronics, pharmaceuticals, engineering goods, and textiles. Unlike previous trade windfalls where

India’s long-struggling Kaveri engine project has unexpectedly re-emerged as a potential game-changer, not for the fighter jets it was originally meant to power, but for a new generation of unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs). In a significant development, the dry variant of the Kaveri engine is undergoing trials in Russia, with roughly 25 hours of […]

India’s Operation Sindoor, launched between May 7 and 10 in response to the brutal Pahalgam terror attack, is being hailed not only as a tactical success but as a turning point in India’s strategic doctrine. Moving far beyond symbolic retaliation, it marked a calibrated use of force, deep strikes on Pakistan Air Force infrastructure, and […]

Delhi High Court deferred to national security in Çelebi's case while Mumbai High Court treated it as a routine contract dispute, revealing a dangerous gap in India’s institutional response.

I. Introduction The Sukhoi Su-30MKI has been the spine of the Indian Air Force’s combat fleet for over two decades, dominating the skies with its twin-engine power, long-range capability, and multirole versatility. However, with the emergence of stealth fighters like China’s J-20, modern electronic warfare systems, and longer-range beyond-visual-range (BVR) missiles in the