From Tina Dabi Row to Influencer Bureaucracy: When Civil Servants Chase Fame

By BPN News Desk December 22, 2025

Editorials Opinion

The Barmer incident where students were detained after calling the District Collector a “reel star” should have ended as a minor footnote in local administration. Instead, it has exposed an uncomfortable truth about India’s bureaucracy in 2025. This was not about an insult. It was about power

Expert Opinions Opinion

When One Airline Sneezes, India Catches a Cold: Why India Needs an Aviation Planning Authority

By BPN News Desk December 7, 2025

India did not witness an airline incident. It witnessed a systems failure. One bad day inside a single private airline was enough to throw airports across the country into chaos. That is not just a story about Indigo. It is a story about how India has built aviation without a brain that plans for resilience, […]

Law & Order National

Centre Suspends Panjab University Governance Notice

By BPN News Desk November 6, 2025

The Union Government has temporarily suspended the notification to dissolve the Senate and Syndicate of Panjab University in Chandigarh. The move follows a wave of protests from political parties, student bodies and academics in Punjab who flagged the October 28 restructuring order as undermining university autonomy and state-centre balance. What’s been paused and what

Editorials Opinion

The Babus Rule, The Netas Sign

By BPN News Desk July 29, 2025

When Subhash Chandra Garg, the then Finance Secretary of India, quietly decided to resign from the Indian Administrative Service, it wasn’t because of a scandal or political fallout. It was because a file moved in the Ministry of Finance—not through honest dialogue, but through quiet coercion. Garg had opposed a policy proposal to give resolution […]

National

Amit Shah Pushes for Local Languages in Governance

By BPN News Desk June 27, 2025

Union Home Minister Amit Shah has urged all levels of government—central and state—to embrace local Indian languages in day-to-day administration. Speaking at the golden jubilee celebration of the Department of Official Language, Shah linked the use of Indian languages to a broader mission of decolonising governance and reconnecting with India’s cultural foundations.