Reliance Buys Venezuelan Oil Why Paying More May Help India

By BPN News Desk February 6, 2026

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Reliance Industries recently bought about 2 million barrels of Venezuelan oil after nearly a year without such imports. The cargo comes at a smaller discount than Russian oil, meaning India is knowingly paying more per barrel than it has been used to since the Ukraine war reshaped global energy

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Apple Tax Relief Policy: How One Rule Change Can Build India’s Electronics Industry

By BPN News Desk February 6, 2026

The government recently made a small sounding tax clarification. Foreign companies like Apple can now fund manufacturing machines inside Indian partner factories without being treated as running a taxable business presence in India. For years this single fear stopped Apple from expanding fast. Not labour shortage. Not land. Not incentives. Just fear that tomorrow the […]

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$3B Nuclear Fuel Deal With Canada: Preparing Electricity for India’s 2047 Economy

By BPN News Desk February 6, 2026

India is close to signing a nearly $3 billion long-term uranium supply agreement with Canada. At first glance it sounds like just another energy purchase. But this is not about fixing today’s power cuts. It is about making sure India does not face power shortages twenty years from now when its economy becomes far bigger […]

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Why Congress Is Failing as the Opposition in Parliament

By BPN News Desk February 6, 2026

Every Indian family talks about the same things at the dinner table today. Sabzi mehengi ho gayi. Petrol phir badh gaya. School fees kaise bharni hai. Hospital ka bill kaun dega. Tax itna kyu katega salary se. But when people switch on Parliament, they don’t hear those conversations. They hear shouting. The problem is simple. […]

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Why the Government Preferred Future Debt Over Present Distress

By BPN News Desk February 5, 2026

The Union Budget immediately triggered concern in bond and currency markets after the government projected higher borrowing. Yields moved, the rupee faced pressure and commentary quickly labelled the move risky. But the debate is incomplete if it stops there. The decision was not an oversight. It was a conscious economic choice to move hardship away […]

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SBI’s Venezuelan Oil Report Does Not Match Trade and Price Data

By BPN News Desk February 4, 2026

India’s crude oil sourcing strategy became a public talking point after statements indicating a possible shift towards Venezuelan oil. Almost immediately, a research note from the State Bank of India argued that such a move could save India nearly $3 billion annually. Given the size of India’s oil import bill and the political sensitivity of […]

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Explained: Why the Supreme Court Let Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Speak, Then Asked Her Lawyers to Take Over

By BPN News Desk February 4, 2026

The recent Supreme Court hearing in which Mamata Banerjee personally addressed the bench triggered predictable confusion. Social media immediately split into two camps: one claiming she had no right to speak because she is not an advocate, and the other treating the episode as proof that political power bends judicial procedure. Neither reading is legally […]

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UPI Is National Infrastructure and a Strategic Asset

By BPN News Desk February 4, 2026

UPI now moves more money every year than most national infrastructure projects ever will. ₹230 trillion in transactions is not a fintech milestone. It is the backbone of India’s retail economy, quietly powering daily commerce, household payments, small businesses, transport systems, and even government flows. And yet, for something this large, this critical, and this […]

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The Underground Rail Plan Shows How India Is Finally Thinking About Security in Siliguri Corridor

By BPN News Desk February 4, 2026

The recent announcement to build an underground railway line through the Siliguri Corridor marks a quiet but important shift in how India is approaching one of its most sensitive security challenges. For decades, the Chicken’s Neck has been acknowledged as a vulnerability linking the Northeast to the rest of the country, discussed endlessly in strategic […]

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Rahul Gandhi’s China Statement Does Not Fit the Facts

By BPN News Desk February 4, 2026

The controversy that disrupted the Budget Session of Parliament in February 2026 was triggered by events from 2020, during the India China military standoff in eastern Ladakh following the Galwan Valley clash of June 15, 2020, in which 20 Indian soldiers were martyred. Citing what he claimed were excerpts from an unpublished memoir of former […]