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RBI’s Oil Dollar Curbs Show India Needs a Permanent FX Discipline Framework

By BPN News Desk April 18, 2026

The recent move by the Reserve Bank of India to nudge state-run oil refiners away from aggressive spot dollar buying has been widely seen as a tactical response to a weakening rupee. At one level, it is exactly that. The rupee has been under visible pressure, weighed down by rising crude prices, geopolitical uncertainty in […]

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Opposition Blocks Delimitation Bill, Pushes India Toward a 543-Seat Outcome That Favors BJP Even More

By BPN News Desk April 18, 2026

The defeat of the delimitation-linked constitutional amendment in Parliament was immediately framed as a political victory by the opposition. Celebrations, statements, and sharp rhetoric followed, all projecting the outcome as a successful resistance against a move that was perceived to favour the ruling party. But beneath that immediate political theatre lies a deeper and

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Women’s Quota Vote: BJP Sets the Trap, Opposition Chooses the Lesser Damage

By BPN News Desk April 17, 2026

The Women’s Reservation Bill failed in the Lok Sabha, falling short of the required two-thirds majority. On paper, it looks like a straightforward legislative defeat. But anyone reading this purely as a numbers game is missing the larger political design behind it. This was never just a vote on women’s representation. It was a carefully […]

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Lenskart Controversy Shows How Woke HR Policies Are Damaging Corporate India

By BPN News Desk April 17, 2026

The controversy surrounding Lenskart and its founder Peyush Bansal did not begin with a press conference or a policy announcement. It began with a document. A grooming and dress code guideline, allegedly part of the company’s internal framework, surfaced online and spread rapidly across social media. What caught attention was not just its existence, but […]

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Corporate Jihad Debate: Do Indian Companies Need a Uniform Civil Code at Work?

By BPN News Desk April 17, 2026

The Nashik TCS case did not remain confined to one office for long. Within hours of the story breaking, social media began filling up with similar accounts from employees across Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai and Thane. Different companies, different teams, but eerily similar allegations. Hiring bias, promotion patterns, religious practices inside offices, festival-based

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Hormuz Closure Threatens Saudi Oil and China’s Energy. Pakistan Steps In to Fix Both

By BPN News Desk April 17, 2026

The Strait of Hormuz is not just another maritime route caught in geopolitical crossfire. It is the single most critical artery of global energy supply, a narrow passage through which a significant portion of the world’s oil flows every single day. When tensions escalate in this corridor, the impact is not local, it is global. […]

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Unknown Gunmen Shoot Amir Hamza: Pakistan’s Safe Havens No Longer Safe for Its Own Operatives

By BPN News Desk April 16, 2026

The shooting of Amir Hamza in Lahore by unidentified gunmen is not just another violent incident buried in the endless churn of regional headlines. It is a moment that demands closer attention, not because violence in Pakistan is unusual, but because of who the target is and where the attack took place. Hamza is no […]

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Iran Used a Commercial Satellite for War. India Still Treats Space as a Government Monopoly

By BPN News Desk April 16, 2026

Iran did not just fire missiles at American positions across the Gulf and the wider West Asian theatre. According to reports, Iranian planners had allegedly secured access to a Chinese-built commercial satellite already in orbit and used it to track U.S. bases through time-stamped imagery and orbital surveillance inputs before and after strikes. This was […]

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Kejriwal’s Bias Claims Against Delhi High Court Lack Evidence

By BPN News Desk April 15, 2026

There is a difference between defending yourself in court and staging a political performance from inside one. What Arvind Kejriwal appears to be doing in the Delhi High Court is not merely legal defence. It increasingly looks like an attempt to turn the courtroom into a personal theatre where every procedural move can be amplified […]

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NavIC Delayed, SSLV Slowed, PSLV Failing: Is India’s Space Program Facing More Than Technical Glitches?

By BPN News Desk April 15, 2026

Back-to-back PSLV failures have done more than just dent ISRO’s launch calendar. They have disrupted the deployment of NavIC satellites, slowed down the SSLV rollout, and exposed how deeply India’s space ecosystem depends on a single launch vehicle. What should have been an isolated technical setback has now snowballed into a systemic disruption. The question […]