Channel
@orftg
On this record: Growth · Engagement · Reactions · Posts · Citations · Telegram's recommendations · Cross-platform identity · Cite this entry
17,431subscribers
-6 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 10,000–31,623.
| Telegram ID | -1001345504140 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @orftg |
| Created | Between 1 April 2018 and 30 June 2021— estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 6 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 12 August 2026 |
| Measurements held | 7 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 12 August 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/orftg |
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 12 Aug 2026, 14:03 | 17,431 | +1 |
| 11 Aug 2026, 12:42 | 17,430 | +2 |
| 10 Aug 2026, 09:53 | 17,428 | -6 |
| 9 Aug 2026, 08:51 | 17,434 | -9 |
| 8 Aug 2026, 06:41 | 17,443 | +6 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 03:48 | 17,437 | no change |
| 6 Aug 2026, 13:19 | 17,437 | first reading |
41 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 16 pagesof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
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 5 of 41 measured posts that carry a reaction reading, and over those same posts' views.
| Window | Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 12 August 2026 |
|---|---|
| Posts held | 41 (1 August 2026 – 12 August 2026) |
| Views total | 19,919 |
| Reactions total | 6 |
| Forwards / comments | not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated |
| Readings taken | 12 Aug 2026, 09:45 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.
6 reactions across 3 posts, in 2 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 83.3% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 5 | 83.3% | |
| 👍 | 1 | 16.7% |
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 5 of the 41 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 6reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 41 most recent posts we hold, published 1 August 2026 to 12 August 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.
On 16 July, India and the European Union began formal negotiations on India's association with Horizon Europe, the EU's flagship research and innovation programme. This brief argues that India's association with Horizon Europe will further institutionalise and reinforce the emergence of a broader EU-India partnership increasingly defined by shared strategic interests, where scientific collaboration is becoming a key…
AI has diffused through the economy faster than any previous technology, yet the labour market carries almost no trace of it — unemployment across the advanced economies remains near record lows. This brief argues that none of the labour-market apprehensions stem from the technology alone: the speed of the adjustment and the distribution of its gains are ultimately policy variables: https://www.orfonline.org/expert-…
Pakistan's reported deployment of nearly 250 Chinese-made SH-15 wheeled self-propelled howitzers along sectors facing India is less a standalone military development than another marker of the deepening strategic convergence between Beijing and Islamabad. This brief argues that sustaining credible deterrence in an increasingly contested regional security environment will depend not on reacting to individual acquisit…
When Sanae Takaichi arrived in New Delhi for the 16th India-Japan Annual Summit, the most consequential item may have been the least reported: An exchange of letters between the International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA) and Japan's Financial Services Agency for cooperation on regulation, supervision, FinTech and RegTech, alongside a commitment to facilitate Japanese banks expanding into India's bank…
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Sudan was already split once in 2011. As civil war drags on, a second partition looks increasingly likely — not by design, but by default. Since the beginning of the civil war in April 2023, more than 900,000 Sudanese refugees have fled to Chad, whose eastern regions are home to many of Darfur's cross-border ethnic communities and longstanding ethnic fault lines. This brief argues that a second partition would not …
The India-United Kingdom (UK) Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) entered into force on 15 July 2026, marking one of India's most consequential trade agreements in recent years. For MSMEs, the agreement removes an important external constraint but it also exposes the domestic constraints that continue to limit participation in exports. This brief explains that the real test of CETA, therefore, will no…
Exclusive breastfeeding among infants below six months declined from 63.7 percent in NFHS-5 (2019–21) to 55.8 percent in NFHS-6 (2023–24), despite improvements across several health indicators. The World Health Organization (WHO) highlights that investments in breastfeeding support of US$1 can generate returns of US$59, along with reduced health-care costs, improved educational outcomes, and enhanced workforce produ…
The last few years have exposed the fragility of the world's maritime arteries. First, the Red Sea saw a sustained campaign of Houthi attacks on commercial shipping, pushing Suez Canal traffic down by roughly 90 percent. Now, the Strait of Hormuz has become an arena of confrontation between the United States and Iran. This turbulence at the chokepoints is also the most powerful argument for the India-Middle East-Eur…
The current pause on planned American, and reportedly coordinated Israeli strikes against Iran should not be mistaken for strategic resolution. It represents another episode in a broader contest where military signalling and diplomatic engagement increasingly function in tandem. This brief explains that whether this moment evolves into a meaningful political settlement or merely postpones, will depend on the willin…
Spain has spent the past year being cited as Europe's migration success story. Last week, things reached a breaking point. Tens of thousands of Moroccan migrants rushed into the Spanish territory of Ceuta, while most have been sent back to Morocco, disinformation spread like wildfire. Far-right parties across Europe framed the chaos as an invasion and a national security threat. This brief explains that Centrist Eu…
In light of the accusations of using chemical weapons against Sudan, the US has stepped up international pressure, imposing a second round of sanctions in 2025. This brief explains that as warfare becomes more fragmented and politically complex, the international system needs to shift away from relying solely on punishing states for their violations. While sanctions can be effective, they must be supported by additi…
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Neurological disorders are now the leading cause of ill health and disability worldwide, affecting more than 3.4 billion people. As advances in artifical intelligence improve, governments and private companies are already responding. From China's Beinao No. 1 Brain–computer interface (BCI) being implanted in patients to companies such as Synchron demonstrating its potential. India has taken a different approach: ra…
Showing the 12 most recent of 41 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.
Citation-graph rank — 140,377 of 1,151,006entries in the measured graph. A weighted position computed from the forward and mention edges below — republished posts weigh more than named mentions — and recomputed periodically, over the whole graph. Published only as this ordinal position, never as a score: a position is a fact, and a score printed beside one channel’s name would read as a verdict this register does not make. The two counts beneath stay separate for the same reason mentions are never summed with forwards anywhere else on this page — a named-by count costs nothing to manufacture. The top 100 by this measure, or how it is computed.
Named by 2 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.
Named by
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.
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 1 seed channel's Telegram-generated recommendation list in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
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.
| Label | Observer Research Foundation |
|---|---|
| Description | organization |
| X / Twitter | @orfonline |
| Official site | https://www.orfonline.org/ |
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 12 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Observer Research Foundation” (@orftg), 17,431 subscribers as measured 12 August 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.