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Why Bangladesh Lost by Copying Pakistan’s Cricket Politics

By BPN News Desk January 23, 2026

Bangladesh’s flirtation with skipping the T20 World Cup in India was projected at home as an act of patriotic firmness. Outside its borders, however, it landed very differently. To the global cricketing establishment, it looked like a recycled tactic, familiar, predictable, and ultimately hollow. This was not Bangladesh asserting sovereignty. It was Bangladesh borrowing a

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Trump’s Peace Board Sidelines the UN and Rewards Pakistan

By BPN News Desk January 23, 2026

Donald Trump’s announcement of a so called “Board of Peace” was presented as a bold diplomatic initiative, but it immediately raised a basic and uncomfortable question. Why create a new peace body at all when the world already has an established framework for conflict resolution? The answer lies less in global necessity and more in […]

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Trump’s Tariff Circus and the Audience That Refuses to Leave

By BPN News Desk January 21, 2026

The spectacle has always been loud, theatrical, and wrapped in patriotism. Tariffs were unveiled like a traveling circus, complete with fiery speeches, national flags, and a simple promise repeated endlessly: foreign countries will pay. China will pay. America will win. The audience cheered, the show rolled on, and almost no one asked the only question […]

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If the System Was So Biased, Why Did It Make You a Star

By BPN News Desk January 21, 2026

In recent weeks, two celebrated public figures chose the closing phase of their careers to level serious accusations against the very systems that elevated them. Australian cricketer Usman Khawaja, announcing his retirement, spoke of racial stereotypes and described Australian cricket as “still very white.” Around the same time, India’s most globally recognised composer,

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₹14.5 Lakh Crore on Paper: How Indian States Inflate Davos Investment Claims

By BPN News Desk January 21, 2026

Maharashtra’s announcement of ₹14.5 lakh crore worth of Memorandums of Understanding at the World Economic Forum in Davos was celebrated with predictable chest-thumping. Politicians posed, headlines screamed “historic investment”, and job numbers were casually thrown around as if cheques had already been signed and factories were ready to break ground. But strip away the

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From Anti-Corruption to Authoritarianism: AAP’s War on Punjab Kesari Exposes Its True Face

By BPN News Desk January 20, 2026

What is unfolding in Punjab is not a technical dispute over regulations or paperwork. It is a stress test for Indian democracy. When a government uses its power to squeeze a newspaper that refuses to fall in line, the issue stops being administrative and becomes constitutional. We state this without hesitation. We stand in complete […]

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Why Linking BRICS Digital Currencies Could Save India Up to $1 Billion a Year

By BPN News Desk January 20, 2026

India’s central bank has quietly made one of the most economically consequential proposals in recent BRICS discussions. By urging the government to place interoperability of central bank digital currencies on the BRICS agenda, the Reserve Bank of India is not chasing ideological headlines or currency symbolism. It is targeting a very old and very expensive […]

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Why the Rafale Production Line Matters More Than the Jet Itself

By BPN News Desk January 20, 2026

India’s Rafale deal is usually reduced to familiar talking points. How many aircraft, how much money, and whether the jet is better than its rivals. That framing misses the real strategic value of the agreement. The most important outcome of the Rafale deal is not the fighter itself, but the decision to build a production […]

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Saudi–Pakistan Pact Was Loud. India–UAE Pact Is Structural And That Makes It More Dangerous

By BPN News Desk January 20, 2026

The past few weeks in West Asian geopolitics have offered a telling contrast. On one hand, the Saudi Arabia–Pakistan defence understanding generated headlines, political messaging, and familiar alliance-style signalling. On the other, India and the United Arab Emirates quietly announced a defence partnership framework that avoided dramatic language altogether. Yet it is

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How India Can Reduce Oil Consumption Through Time-Bound EV Policy Enforcement

By BPN News Desk January 18, 2026

Introduction India’s energy vulnerability is not electricity scarcity but oil dependence. Despite having adequate national power generation capacity and a steadily strengthening transmission backbone, India remains structurally exposed to global crude oil markets. Petrol and diesel continue to dominate transport energy consumption, making fuel imports a persistent