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17,382subscribers

-55 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026

Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 10,000–31,623.

Register entry

Telegram ID-1001345504140
TypeChannel
Username@orftg
DescriptionNon-partisan, independent analysis on security, strategy, economy, development, energy & global governance.
CreatedBetween 1 March 2018 and 31 August 2021 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated.
First recorded6 August 2026
Last confirmed live9 November 2026
Measurements held60
Confirmed unchanged1 time, most recently 9 November 2026
On Telegramt.me/orftg

Topic

National news — 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 31% 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 the other topics.

Growth

17,38217,45217,4176 August 2026 — 17,437 subscribers7 August 2026 — 17,437 subscribers8 August 2026 — 17,443 subscribers9 August 2026 — 17,434 subscribers10 August 2026 — 17,428 subscribers11 August 2026 — 17,430 subscribers12 August 2026 — 17,431 subscribers14 August 2026 — 17,430 subscribers16 August 2026 — 17,427 subscribers17 August 2026 — 17,426 subscribers18 August 2026 — 17,427 subscribers19 August 2026 — 17,433 subscribers20 August 2026 — 17,439 subscribers22 August 2026 — 17,433 subscribers23 August 2026 — 17,434 subscribers25 August 2026 — 17,441 subscribers26 August 2026 — 17,447 subscribers27 August 2026 — 17,445 subscribers29 August 2026 — 17,446 subscribers30 August 2026 — 17,444 subscribers31 August 2026 — 17,439 subscribers1 September 2026 — 17,431 subscribers2 September 2026 — 17,426 subscribers3 September 2026 — 17,438 subscribers5 September 2026 — 17,424 subscribers8 September 2026 — 17,408 subscribers11 September 2026 — 17,421 subscribers13 September 2026 — 17,416 subscribers16 September 2026 — 17,421 subscribers18 September 2026 — 17,419 subscribers25 September 2026 — 17,430 subscribers3 October 2026 — 17,434 subscribers8 October 2026 — 17,452 subscribers12 October 2026 — 17,450 subscribers14 October 2026 — 17,452 subscribers15 October 2026 — 17,433 subscribers16 October 2026 — 17,442 subscribers17 October 2026 — 17,435 subscribers18 October 2026 — 17,438 subscribers19 October 2026 — 17,427 subscribers20 October 2026 — 17,418 subscribers22 October 2026 — 17,419 subscribers23 October 2026 — 17,412 subscribers24 October 2026 — 17,411 subscribers25 October 2026 — 17,414 subscribers26 October 2026 — 17,417 subscribers27 October 2026 — 17,418 subscribers28 October 2026 — 17,420 subscribers29 October 2026 — 17,427 subscribers30 October 2026 — 17,429 subscribers31 October 2026 — 17,422 subscribers1 November 2026 — 17,423 subscribers2 November 2026 — 17,420 subscribers3 November 2026 — 17,423 subscribers4 November 2026 — 17,418 subscribers5 November 2026 — 17,417 subscribers6 November 2026 — 17,408 subscribers7 November 2026 — 17,399 subscribers8 November 2026 — 17,393 subscribers9 November 2026 — 17,382 subscribers6 August 20269 November 2026
60 measurements spanning 95 days, net -55. Dots are measurements; the straight line between them is drawn to join them, not to claim we know the path taken in between — snapshots are recorded only when a count changes, so gaps mean “no change observed”, never “interpolated”. The vertical axis spans 17,372–17,463 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded, most recent 20 of 60
Measured (UTC)SubscribersChange
9 Nov 2026, 22:4917,382-11
8 Nov 2026, 15:1117,393-6
7 Nov 2026, 10:5117,399-9
6 Nov 2026, 14:0817,408-9
5 Nov 2026, 14:3517,417-1
4 Nov 2026, 17:5717,418-5
3 Nov 2026, 18:4817,423+3
2 Nov 2026, 16:5117,420-3
1 Nov 2026, 18:3817,423+1
31 Oct 2026, 18:1917,422-7
30 Oct 2026, 17:2017,429+2
29 Oct 2026, 13:4617,427+7
28 Oct 2026, 09:3117,420+2
27 Oct 2026, 09:1917,418+1
26 Oct 2026, 07:5617,417+3
25 Oct 2026, 04:4817,414+3
24 Oct 2026, 03:5917,411-1
23 Oct 2026, 05:1817,412-7
22 Oct 2026, 02:0117,419+1
20 Oct 2026, 22:4917,418first reading

Engagement

165 posts held, back to 1 August 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 71 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.

ERR · 30 days
2.85%
avg views ÷ 17,382 subscribers
Avg views / post
496
48 posts measured
Reaction rate
0.246%
reactions ÷ views · ER floor
Posts in window
48
of 165 held

ERR is average views per post over the last 30 days divided by subscribers, the definition TGStat uses, so this figure is comparable with the one you will see elsewhere. It falls structurally as a channel grows: a high ERR on a small channel and a low one on a large channel describe reach mathematics, not quality. We publish the figure and the sample it came from and pass no verdict on it.

ER is defined industry-wide as (forwards + reactions + comments) ÷ views — note the denominator is views, not subscribers. Telegram’s public web preview carries views and reactions but not forward or comment counts, so the reaction rate above is the reactions term only and is therefore a floor: the true ER for this channel is higher by an amount we have not measured and will not estimate. It is computed over the 9 of 48 measured posts that carry a reaction reading, and over those same posts' views.

What these figures were computed from
WindowRolling 30 days · latest post in window 10 November 2026
Posts held165 (1 August 2026 – 10 November 2026)
Views total23,802
Reactions total11
Forwards / commentsnot exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated
Readings taken11 Nov 2026, 04:44 UTC

Views are a single reading per post, taken at the time above. A post published in the last day or two is still accumulating views, which pulls the 30-day average down slightly. That is a property of the standard definition rather than a fault in it, so we keep the definition rather than “correcting” the number into something nobody can reproduce.

Precision. Telegram publishes view counts on its public widget in short form — 8.12K, 3.7M — so any reading at or above 1,000 reaches us rounded to three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. Averages and rates derived from them are shown to the same precision rather than to the unit: a figure like 3,701,250 would assert digits nobody measured.

Reaction counts are published per emoji and rounded the same way, so a total below 1,000 is exact and a larger one is a sum that may carry a rounded component from each emoji above 1,000. Because it is a sum, it does not look rounded — read a large reaction total as three significant figures per contributing emoji rather than as the figure it prints.

What this channel posts

Photos
≈2,650
Videos
≈445
Links
≈15,000

Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 11 November 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.

Video runtime
9s
Average length
9s

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.

Reaction mix

49 reactions across 34 posts, in 3 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 87.8% of them.

Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
ReactionCountShareShare, drawn
❤4387.8%
👍510.2%
👏12.04%

No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.

Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.

Coverage. Reactions were read on 41 of the 165 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 49 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.

Measured over the 165 most recent posts we hold, published 1 August 2026 to 10 November 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.

Recent posts

Telegram’s own ‘edited’ marker: 0 of 48 posts held from the last 30 days (0%) carried it when this register last read them. The marker says a post was changed after publishing, not what it said before — this register holds the earlier wording only where an edit fell between two of its own reads (see the edit ledger and how it is measured).

10 Nov 2026, 10:53 UTC264 views1 reactionsread 11 November 2026

Can a careful fresh start between India and Azerbaijan become a lasting partnership built on connectivity, trade and regular engagement? External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar’s visit to Baku on 23 October was his first trip to Azerbaijan in eight years. Bilateral trade fell to US $401 million in 2025, but renewed diplomatic engagement is helping to restore momentum, with US $600 million in the first nine months of…

❤1

10 Nov 2026, 08:29 UTC272 viewsread 11 November 2026
Photo

Global megatrends are reshaping more than policy agendas. They are changing how people live, work, prosper, and build resilience. Across the GlobalSouth, those trends are being felt in cities, labor markets, and food systems. OUT NOW: the fourth issue of ORF Global Quarterly, "Societies in Transformation", brings insights from scholars across ORF's centers in India, North America, and the Middle East. Read now 🔗 h…

10 Nov 2026, 06:44 UTC286 viewsread 11 November 2026

The single biggest backlash against the Trump administration in the US midterms stems from the reversal of its campaign promise not to start new wars, writes Vivek Mishra. The cost of the Iran war has landed squarely on American households, raising the prices of food, fuel, mortgages, farm inputs and travel. A January 2026 study by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy found that US importers and consumers bore a…

9 Nov 2026, 13:38 UTC381 viewsread 11 November 2026

The significance of the elections in Brazil and Israel lies not only in who won or lost, but in what they reveal about the relationship between electoral legitimacy, institutional constraints and strategic ambition, writes Harsh V. Pant. In both countries, polarisation has mobilised voters while complicating the formation of durable governing coalitions. The decisive test will be whether leaders can turn the author…

9 Nov 2026, 10:55 UTC358 viewsread 11 November 2026

AI safety should make existing and emerging systems more accountable and explainable, not make their developers, or the political parties backing them, more influential. Ahead of the 2026 US midterms, AI safety is increasingly entangled with corporate interests and electoral politics. This brief argues the answer is neither blanket deregulation nor regulation. Governments should make frontier AI developers run stan…

9 Nov 2026, 08:33 UTC362 viewsread 11 November 2026

Lula became the first Brazilian candidate to win a runoff after trailing in the first round. How did Lula pull off an improbable comeback? All major pollsters had forecast a victory for Flávio Bolsonaro, who led the first round with 47.03% to Lula's 45.16%. The reasons lie as much in Bolsonaro's missteps as in Lula's own strategy. Lula pivoted his campaign towards social media outreach, alongside traditional street…

9 Nov 2026, 07:39 UTC386 viewsread 11 November 2026

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk's visit to India in October gave defence cooperation momentum and a clear agenda. Sustained progress now requires contracts, investment and joint production. India's manufacturing scale and growing private defence sector could complement Poland's advanced technologies and defence industrial expertise. Despite a large defence budget, Polish defence firms have limited production capa…

8 Nov 2026, 11:11 UTC471 viewsread 11 November 2026

"On 12 December 2026, the 1996 Ganges Water-Sharing Treaty between India and Bangladesh will complete its thirty-year term. The Treaty, although a diplomatic achievement, addresses only how much water is shared. It does not establish an integrated framework for managing the basin, nor does it adequately recognise the river’s sediment flow, biodiversity, ecosystem services or changing economic needs. This brief argu…

8 Nov 2026, 07:49 UTC476 views1 reactionsread 11 November 2026

As aid recedes, the African philosophy of Ubuntu offers a moral foundation for cooperation. Critics have long argued that Western aid rests on rigid hierarchies between donors and recipients, lacks accountability and undermines domestic initiative. A new global development financing order must address these criticisms, not merely seek replacement funding. Ubuntu, typically conveyed through the phrase “I am because …

❤1

7 Nov 2026, 12:51 UTC447 viewsread 11 November 2026

India’s Zorawar light tank does not need to be fully indigenous at the outset. The initial 59 tanks can enter service with non-indigenous subsystems such as the engine and gun, while India develops its own versions of those parts. This would give crews experience in using the tank, while later versions are improved. indigenous content can then be increased with each new version, as Israel did with its Merkava tank. …

Showing the 12 most recent of 165 posts we hold for @orftg. 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.

Mentions

Named by 3 registered channels — 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.

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.

Appears in Telegram’s recommendations for other channels

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.

Down To Earth
@dtemagazine · 54,805
Telegram ranks this channel #4 of 65 here — alongside 64 others — read 4 September 2026
Express Explained
@ieexplained · 26,083
Telegram ranks this channel #9 of 90 here — alongside 89 others — read 12 September 2026
ThePrint
@ThePrintIndia · 22,046
Telegram ranks this channel #34 of 83 here — alongside 82 others — read 20 September 2026
Raj Malhotra's IAS
@rajmalhotraias · 38,224
Telegram ranks this channel #44 of 78 here — alongside 77 others — read 30 August 2026
The Hindu
@THnewsupdates · 247,872
Telegram ranks this channel #59 of 88 here — alongside 87 others — read 10 August 2026
The New Indian Express
@thenewindianexpress · 21,002
Telegram ranks this channel #62 of 79 here — alongside 78 others — read 24 September 2026

This channel appears in 6 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.

Cross-platform identity — Wikidata

A Wikidata item names this Telegram handle as belonging to the entity it describes. This is Wikidata’s claim, not a verification made by this register — nobody here confirmed that the account is genuinely operated by the entity named. Wikidata content is CC0; every fact below is dated to when it was read from Wikidata, not to when the association was first made there.

Q10860333 on Wikidata, read 8 November 2026
LabelObserver Research Foundation
DescriptionIndian policy research foundation founded in 1990, working on security, economy and energy
X / Twitter@orfonline
Official sitehttps://www.orfonline.org/

Cite this entry

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 9 November 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.

“Observer Research Foundation” (@orftg), 17,382 subscribers as measured 9 November 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/orftg.

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.