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Why India Is Quietly Rewriting Its Forex Playbook

By BPN News Desk January 11, 2026

India’s foreign exchange reserves rarely make headlines unless something breaks. They are meant to sit quietly in the background, doing their job of protecting the economy from shocks. That is why the Reserve Bank of India trimming its US Treasury holdings below 200 billion dollars while steadily increasing gold reserves is worth paying attention to. […]

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Amit Shah and BSF Must Explain Why the Meghalaya–Bangladesh Border Is Unfenced and Unpatrolled

By BPN News Desk January 11, 2026

A short viral video should not be able to shake a nation’s confidence in its border security. Yet that is exactly what has happened after footage surfaced of a civilian casually crossing from Meghalaya into Bangladesh through an open, unfenced, and seemingly unpatrolled stretch of the international border. This is not about a blogger seeking […]

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India Moves Closer to Operational Hypersonic Missamiles After DRDL Breakthrough

By BPN News Desk January 10, 2026

India already possesses missiles that reach hypersonic speeds, but the recent breakthrough by Defence Research and Development Laboratory marks progress toward a very different and more advanced category of weapons. The development is not about ballistic missiles that briefly touch hypersonic speeds during their descent. It is about scramjet-powered hypersonic cruise

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Why the G7 Needs India in Its Critical Minerals Strategy

By BPN News Desk January 10, 2026

The recent invitation to India to participate in a G7 meeting on critical minerals may look routine on the surface, but it marks an important shift in how global supply chains are being planned. Until now, discussions on critical minerals were largely focused on countries that mine them. By bringing India into the conversation, the […]

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Modi and Shah Must Explain Why a Medical College in Jammu and Kashmir Became a Political Target

By BPN News Desk January 10, 2026

A government medical college in Jammu and Kashmir followed the rules, applied NEET merit, respected domicile quotas, and admitted students through a nationally approved counselling process. Yet it still became the centre of protests, political pressure, and regulatory action. That alone raises a serious question. Why did education become collateral damage in a political

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What Was Mamata Banerjee Trying to Protect During the ED Raid?

By BPN News Desk January 8, 2026

The Enforcement Directorate raids at the residence and office of an I-PAC co-founder in Kolkata would normally have passed as another chapter in the ongoing confrontation between the Centre and an opposition-ruled state. What turned this episode into something far more consequential was West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s decision to personally visit the raid […]

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Local BJP Alliances with Congress and AIMIM Are a Mirror of Fadnavis’s Own Playbook

By BPN News Desk January 8, 2026

Devendra Fadnavis’s public anger over BJP’s local-level post-poll alliances with the Congress and AIMIM has been framed as a defence of ideology and party discipline. But the outrage feels misplaced and late. What is unfolding across Maharashtra’s municipal councils is not rebellion. It is replication. Local leaders are behaving exactly as recent state-level politics

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US-Controlled Venezuelan Oil: Opportunity or Trap for India?

By BPN News Desk January 4, 2026

The renewed global focus on Venezuelan oil is not accidental. It follows the capture of President Nicolás Maduro, open statements by US President Donald Trump about the United States “running Venezuela,” and his blunt remark that countries buying Russian oil may soon be buying “Venezuelan American oil.” Together, these events signal a deliberate US strategy […]

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Iraq Yesterday, Venezuela Today, Your Country Tomorrow

By BPN News Desk January 3, 2026

The world likes to believe it learns from its mistakes. Iraq proved that belief to be a comforting lie. Two decades after a country was invaded, dismantled, and pushed into chaos on the promise of weapons that never existed, there has been no real accountability. No consequences for those who sold the war. No punishment […]

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Open Letter to Gurpatwant Singh Pannun and the SFJ Circus

By BPN News Desk January 3, 2026

This open letter is for Gurpatwant Singh Pannun and his farcical outfit, Sikhs For Justice. Let’s stop dressing this up as ideology or resistance. It isn’t. What you do is noise. Cheap, calculated noise, delivered from a safe distance because distance is the only thing giving you a voice. You are loud not because you […]