Channel
@ieexplained
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26,527subscribers
-369 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 10,000–31,623.
| Telegram ID | -1001169162108 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @ieexplained |
| Description | Explained by The Indian Express. For the full news feed follow @indianexpress | This is our only official channel on Telegram for #ExpressExplained |
| Created | Between 1 March 2018 and 31 July 2021 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 6 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 18 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 35 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 18 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/ieexplained |
Other / unclassifiable — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 10 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 47% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 18 Sept 2026, 16:38 | 26,527 | -19 |
| 16 Sept 2026, 11:58 | 26,546 | -4 |
| 14 Sept 2026, 13:41 | 26,550 | -17 |
| 13 Sept 2026, 00:41 | 26,567 | -16 |
| 10 Sept 2026, 22:20 | 26,583 | -32 |
| 7 Sept 2026, 20:18 | 26,615 | -25 |
| 4 Sept 2026, 22:37 | 26,640 | -13 |
| 3 Sept 2026, 09:28 | 26,653 | -4 |
| 2 Sept 2026, 01:15 | 26,657 | -8 |
| 1 Sept 2026, 02:05 | 26,665 | -5 |
| 31 Aug 2026, 01:24 | 26,670 | -18 |
| 30 Aug 2026, 03:04 | 26,688 | -5 |
| 29 Aug 2026, 05:54 | 26,693 | -18 |
| 28 Aug 2026, 02:24 | 26,711 | -8 |
| 27 Aug 2026, 03:38 | 26,719 | -1 |
| 26 Aug 2026, 04:33 | 26,720 | -10 |
| 25 Aug 2026, 01:19 | 26,730 | -15 |
| 23 Aug 2026, 11:25 | 26,745 | -9 |
| 21 Aug 2026, 22:28 | 26,754 | -3 |
| 20 Aug 2026, 20:54 | 26,757 | first reading |
17 posts held, back to 29 July 2025 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 63 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 17 posts for this entry, the most recent from 8 June 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 27 September 2026 — not the date at the top of this page, which is when the subscriber count was last read. A count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints these counters in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈142,000 means somewhere between 141,500 and 142,499.
Measured directly from 1 video with a duration reading, out of the posts we hold for this channel — not this channel’s whole posting history, only the sample this register has actually read. An exact reading to the second, taken from the post itself rather than from Telegram’s own rounded chrome, so it carries no ≈ mark.
Join us in the next edition of Explained.Live with Jahangir Aziz, Co-Head of Macroeconomic Research, J.P.Morgan in conversation with Siddharth Upasani, Deputy Associate Editor, The Indian Express Register now: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/6717799502969/WN_LX-6ZQjESQuszIP4YvNP4A June 8th, 2026 | 6:00 PM | Zoom
Join us in the next edition of Explained.Live with Jahangir Aziz, Co-Head of Macroeconomic Research, J.P.Morgan in conversation with Siddharth Upasani, Deputy Associate Editor, The Indian Express Register now: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/6717799502969/WN_LX-6ZQjESQuszIP4YvNP4A June 8th, 2026 | 6:00 PM | Zoom
War in West Asia & its impact What is the endgame? Is US & Israel justified in attacking Iran? What is happening inside Iran? What will be new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khameini’s strategy? How does west Asia view the war? How is India’s position on the war perceived by different nations? Is it going to hit India’s economy and its diaspora in the region? Join us in the next edition of Explained.Live with Navdeep…
War in West Asia & its impact What is the endgame? Is US & Israel justified in attacking Iran? What is happening inside Iran? What will be new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khameini’s strategy? How does west Asia view the war? How is India’s position on the war perceived by different nations? Is it going to hit India’s economy and its diaspora in the region? Join us in the next edition of Explained.Live with Navdeep…
War in West Asia & its impact What is the endgame? Is US & Israel justified in attacking Iran? What is happening inside Iran? What will be new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khameini’s strategy? How does west Asia view the war? How is India’s position on the war perceived by different nations? Is it going to hit India’s economy and its diaspora in the region? Join us in the next edition of Explained.Live with Navdeep…
Explained.live - What will it take to give India clean air? Why can’t India clean its air despite a decade of efforts and massive spending? Why does pollution keep worsening each year? How have other countries succeeded in improving their air quality? Is there anything peculiar about the problem in India that makes it particularly unmanageable, or are the authorities not being serious enough? Can Delhi’s air quality…
Explained.live - What will it take to give India clean air? Why can’t India clean its air despite a decade of efforts and massive spending? Why does pollution keep worsening each year? How have other countries succeeded in improving their air quality? Is there anything peculiar about the problem in India that makes it particularly unmanageable, or are the authorities not being serious enough? Can Delhi’s air quality…
Explained.live - What will it take to give India clean air? Why can’t India clean its air despite a decade of efforts and massive spending? Why does pollution keep worsening each year? How have other countries succeeded in improving their air quality? Is there anything peculiar about the problem in India that makes it particularly unmanageable, or are the authorities not being serious enough? Can Delhi’s air quality…
Join us in the next edition of Express Explained.Live with Sajjid Z Chinoy, Managing Director and Chief Asia Economist at J.P. Morgan & Part-time member of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council in conversation with Siddharth Upasani, Deputy Associate Editor, The Indian Express. Oct 9, 2025 I 6:00 PM I Zoom Click to Register: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/4017591481274/WN_6ffmCwqmTNi-MNor0hxSzA
Join us in the next edition of Express Explained.Live with Sajjid Z Chinoy, Managing Director and Chief Asia Economist at J.P. Morgan & Part-time member of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council in conversation with Siddharth Upasani, Deputy Associate Editor, The Indian Express. Oct 9, 2025 I 6:00 PM I Zoom Click to Register: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/4017591481274/WN_6ffmCwqmTNi-MNor0hxSzA
Join us in the next edition of Express Explained.Live with Sajjid Z Chinoy, Managing Director and Chief Asia Economist at J.P. Morgan & Part-time member of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council in conversation with Siddharth Upasani, Deputy Associate Editor, The Indian Express. Oct 9, 2025 I 6:00 PM I Zoom Click to Register: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/4017591481274/WN_6ffmCwqmTNi-MNor0hxSzA
Join us in the next edition of Express Explained.Live with Ranjit Rae, Former Indian Ambassador to Nepal in conversation with Shubhajit Roy, Diplomatic Editor, The Indian Express. Link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/2717579163389/WN_vTnf0Md0Q4qTmrBfvTsUtQ
Showing the 12 most recent of 17 posts we hold for @ieexplained. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
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Channels on the register that have forwarded this channel's posts into their own feed.
Built only from forwarded posts we have actually read, on both sides. Coverage is early and deliberately incomplete: a missing link means we have not read the post that would prove it, never that the relationship does not exist. Counts are distinct forwarded posts observed, so they only ever go up as we read more.
Named by 1 registered channel — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it.
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Channels on the register whose posts name this channel's handle.
A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.
Telegram’s own answer, not this register’s. When this register asks Telegram’s API what is similar to this channel, this is the list it returns, in the exact order Telegram returns it — never re-sorted by subscribers or by anything else this register measures. The relationship, and the order, are Telegram’s; we record them and date them, and make no claim of our own about which of these channels actually resemble this one.
Read from Telegram’s recommendation API, most recently 12 September 2026. Telegram holds a list like this for a small and growing share of the register — how this is measured, and why most channel pages show nothing here.
The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.
This channel appears in 28 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total, of which the 24 where it ranks highest are shown above. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 18 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Express Explained” (@ieexplained), 26,527 subscribers as measured 18 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/ieexplained.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.