#OPINION | The Bangladesh government is caught between a rock and a hard place. Tarique Rahman’s administration is facing two difficult choices, either of which could invite trouble. It’s about how to deal with Sheikh Hasina’s request for a new passport and national identity card, which were cancelled in 2024 by the American-sponsored unconstitutional regime of Muhammad Yunus. ✍️ Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty 🔗https://w…

Channel
The New Indian Express
@thenewindianexpress
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · What this channel posts · Reactions · Posts · Posts edited after publishing · Polls · Citations · Telegram's recommendations · Cite this entry
20,992subscribers
-213 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 10,000–31,623.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001466846514 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @thenewindianexpress |
| Description | The True Picture. Always. |
| Created | Between 1 April 2019 and 31 October 2021 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 7 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 13 November 2026 |
| Measurements held | 62 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 13 November 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/thenewindianexpress |
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 100% 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
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 13 Nov 2026, 02:58 | 20,992 | -10 |
| 10 Nov 2026, 20:00 | 21,002 | +10 |
| 7 Nov 2026, 18:00 | 20,992 | -8 |
| 6 Nov 2026, 16:19 | 21,000 | +3 |
| 5 Nov 2026, 18:16 | 20,997 | +4 |
| 4 Nov 2026, 18:10 | 20,993 | -16 |
| 3 Nov 2026, 15:06 | 21,009 | -11 |
| 2 Nov 2026, 14:45 | 21,020 | +2 |
| 1 Nov 2026, 14:04 | 21,018 | +1 |
| 31 Oct 2026, 11:55 | 21,017 | -10 |
| 30 Oct 2026, 14:35 | 21,027 | -3 |
| 29 Oct 2026, 15:51 | 21,030 | -1 |
| 28 Oct 2026, 14:31 | 21,031 | -4 |
| 27 Oct 2026, 16:01 | 21,035 | +8 |
| 26 Oct 2026, 13:10 | 21,027 | -1 |
| 25 Oct 2026, 16:20 | 21,028 | -4 |
| 24 Oct 2026, 19:00 | 21,032 | -2 |
| 23 Oct 2026, 22:15 | 21,034 | -11 |
| 22 Oct 2026, 23:58 | 21,045 | -4 |
| 21 Oct 2026, 21:11 | 21,049 | first reading |
Engagement
704 posts held, back to 5 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 81 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
- ERR · 30 days
- 2.14%
- avg views ÷ 20,992 subscribers
- Avg views / post
- 449
- 185 posts measured
- Reaction rate
- 0.535%
- reactions ÷ views · ER floor
- Posts in window
- 185
- of 704 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 123 of 185 measured posts that carry a reaction reading, and over those same posts' views.
| Window | Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 14 November 2026 |
|---|---|
| Posts held | 704 (5 August 2026 – 14 November 2026) |
| Views total | 83,012 |
| Reactions total | 297 |
| Forwards / comments | not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated |
| Readings taken | 14 Nov 2026, 03:58 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
- ≈8,090
- Videos
- ≈610
- Links
- ≈32,500
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 14 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
- 1h 51m
- Average length
- 1m 18s
Measured directly from 85 videos 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
964 reactions across 404 posts, in 16 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 32.3% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 311 | 32.3% | |
| 😁 | 211 | 21.9% | |
| 👏 | 92 | 9.54% | |
| 👌 | 67 | 6.95% | |
| 👍 | 65 | 6.74% | |
| 💔 | 44 | 4.56% | |
| 🤔 | 39 | 4.05% | |
| 😱 | 30 | 3.11% | |
| 😢 | 24 | 2.49% | |
| 🤯 | 22 | 2.28% | |
| 🤩 | 16 | 1.66% | |
| 🎉 | 15 | 1.56% | |
| 🔥 | 14 | 1.45% | |
| 🙏 | 7 | 0.726% | |
| 🥰 | 6 | 0.622% | |
| 😍 | 1 | 0.104% |
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 427 of the 704 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 964 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 704 most recent posts we hold, published 5 August 2026 to 14 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: 2 of 185 posts held from the last 30 days (1.08%) 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).
A fresh political showdown has erupted after Rahul Gandhi alleged that PM #NarendraModi was tapping his phone and challenged him to a one-on-one public debate. Rahul Gandhi claimed he had evidence on his phone and said a debate would reveal who was allegedly controlled by foreign powers. The remarks triggered sharp reactions from BJP leaders, including Rajeev Chandrasekhar and Vishwas Sarang, who dismissed his alle…
"Visa matters are sovereign functions of any country or any government," MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said at the bi-weekly briefing, when asked about a post by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor. Tharoor alleged that 115 of the 315 speakers cleared by the MEA for the 13-14 November summit had been refused entry or had their visas cancelled, apparently on the instructions of the home ministry. 🔗https://www.newindianexp…
❤1
Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi recently challenged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a public debate. Gandhi claimed that if this direct confrontation occurred, the outcome would ultimately prevent Modi from remaining in his position as Prime Minister. Alongside this debate challenge, Gandhi raised serious allegations regarding surveillance and privacy. As emphasized in the video's thumbnail, the Congress leade…
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The Ministry of Home Affairs has extended the ban on the Islamic Research Foundation (IRF), led by Dr Zakir Naik, as an unlawful association under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act for another five years. The announcement came on Nov 13. In a post on X, the office of Union Minister of Home Affairs Amit Shah said the move follows PM Modi’s vision of zero tolerance towards terrorism and anti-national activities…
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"We regret the disruption today's outage has caused for many of our customers. Our global teams continue to work with urgency to resolve the issue," Puneet Chandok, President, Microsoft India and South Asia, said. #MicrosoftOutage #Microsoft https://www.newindianexpress.com/india/2026/Nov/13/microsoft-restores-parts-of-india-apac-infrastructure-after-global-service-disruption
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Twenty-three people were killed when a minibus (Traveller) they were travelling in collided with a container truck at Rangajan near Kaziranga National Park in Assam on Friday. 🔗https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/assam/2026/Nov/13/23-killed-as-minibus-collides-head-on-with-container-truck-near-kaziranga-national-park-in-assam
#TNIEexplainer | Jensen Huang has resigned as CEO of Nvidia — but who will replace him? Could an Indian-origin leader become the next CEO of the world's most valuable AI company? CFO Colette Kress has stepped in as interim CEO after Huang's resignation, following the board investigation and national security concerns raised in Congress. The fallout has wiped out $500 billion from Nvidia's share value, and the race fo…
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Upping the ante over his challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a debate, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi alleged that he had proof of his allegations against Modi on his phone, which was being "tapped by the prime minister". 🔗https://www.newindianexpress.com/india/2026/Nov/13/proof-against-modi-on-my-phone-rahul-alleges-pm-tapping-device-renews-debate-call
Sheikh Hasina has been sentenced to death in Bangladesh. Now, with Dhaka demanding her extradition and Hasina signalling a possible return in December, India finds itself at the centre of a growing diplomatic crisis. Bangladesh has refused her request for a new passport and ID card, while Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has linked his India visit to Hasina's handover. Is Bangladesh serious about bringing Hasina back?…
The Ballari police have busted an alleged sex trafficking racket in which young women, including minors from economically weaker sections, were allegedly lured in the name of performing "Lakshmi Puja" and subsequently forced into prostitution. The accused allegedly approached unmarried young women by promising them substantial earnings through a special Lakshmi puja. They allegedly collected photographs of women, wi…
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi renewed his challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a one-on-one public debate, claiming that the prime minister would not remain in office after such an exchange. #RahulGandhi https://www.newindianexpress.com/india/2026/Nov/13/modi-will-not-remain-pm-after-debate-with-me-rahul-renews-challenge-to-face-off
👍4😁2🤩1
Showing the 12 most recent of 704 posts we hold for @thenewindianexpress. 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.
Posts edited after publishing
@thenewindianexpress edited 1 post after it first published — the same permalink now carries different wording than the one this register originally read, caught because our own crawl held a copy of the earlier text.
An edit is not deception. Typo fixes, price updates and corrections look exactly like this too — this register can tell you the wording changed and when, not why. How this is measured.
- First edit seen
- 18 August 2026
- Most recent edit
- 18 August 2026
Polls
The poll we hold for this entry, as Telegram rendered it when we read the post. A poll’s figures keep moving after that, so each one is dated.
The humble onion is now retailing at over Rs 60/kg 📈 TN govt has decided to sell it at Rs 35/kg in ration shops. How much do you pay for onions in your region 🧅
- 🧅 ₹30–₹50/kg20%
- 🧅 ₹50–₹70/kg57%
- 🧅 Over ₹70/kg18%
- 🧅 Under ₹30/kg15%
The shares total 110%, above 100: this poll accepts more than one answer per voter. No per-option vote count is published, so the number of voters who chose each option is not derivable and is not shown.
Percentages only — there are no per-option vote counts here, because Telegram publishes none. The public post preview gives each option’s share and a single voter total, and nothing else. Multiplying one by the other would produce a per-option tally that looks measured and is not: the shares are rounded to whole numbers before we ever see them. We print what was published and leave the column that does not exist empty.
The shares need not add up to 100. Rounding alone puts many polls at 99 or 101. A poll that allows more than one answer per voter runs well past 100 by design, and several here do. The bars are drawn against a fixed 100% track at each option’s own percentage rather than normalised to the total, so a poll that exceeds it shows that it does instead of being quietly rescaled.
Read from the 704 most recent posts we hold, published 5 August 2026 to 14 November 2026. Telegram labels each poll by kind — an anonymous poll, a quiz, a closed set of final results — and that label is reproduced rather than paraphrased.
Forward network
Republished by
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.
Channels Telegram recommends alongside this one
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.
@indianexpress · 121,791#1
@THnewsupdates · 247,815#2
@DeccanHeraldNews · 8,327#3
@DNAindia · 1,795#4
@ieexplained · 26,057#5
@NewslaundryTelegram · 4,037#6
@FrontlineIndia · 1,888#7
@bharat_voice · 8,285#8
@PoliticsBharat · 687#9
@Press_Information_Bureau_RSS · 8,924#10
@DalalStreetSaga · 15,938#11
@thewire_in · 4,337#12
@hindustantimes · 62,753#13
@firstpostin · 7,408#14
@livemint · 111,803#15
@ThePrintIndia · 22,021#16
@scroll_in · 3,436#17
@bsindiaofficial · 78,061#18
@network18group · 2,090#19
@bloomberg · 185,490#20
@businessinsiderindia · 4,124#21
@forbesind · 8,665#22
@moneycontrolcom · 231,056#23
@BloombergQ · 7,587#24
@HinduBusinessLine · 17,779#25
@MeghUpdates · 78,314#26
@NewsClick · 3,411#27
@cnbc_tv18 · 76,007#28
@The_Hindu_Editorial_News · 50,260#29
@livelawindia · 38,633#30
@nikkeiasia · 8,880#31
@bar_and_bench · 16,465#32
@pgurus1 · 3,665#33
@freepressjournal · 5,003#34
@France24_en · 27,836#35
@CNN_English_News · 10,234#36
@TheFinancialExpressOnline · 44,740#37
@IntelSage · 13,653#38
@countercurrentsorg · 828#39
@AltNewsIn · 2,604#40
@Hindustan · 19,114#41
@ResonantNews · 21,625#42
@bloomberglaw · 4,852#43
@hindupost · 1,329#44
@researchreportss · 65,414#45
@international_newspaper · 30,824#46
@indiantopnews · 1,972#47
@ndtvprofithindi · 1,268#48
@aljazeera_world · 30,359 (as read 24 September 2026)#49
@TheTelegraphUK · 13,263#50
@MediaoneTV · 4,761#51
@General_KnowledgeTM · 68,612#52
@dinamalardaily · 19,927#53
@breakthroughnews · 2,213#54
@r_Kerala · 1,256#55
@MyGovCoronaNewsdesk · 366,129#56
@ReutersWorldChannel · 50,084 (as read 24 September 2026)#57
@epanchjanya · 5,750#58
@RepublicLive · 3,224#59
@MalayalamNewsTV · 1,749#60
@chanakyaforum · 1,466#61
@orftg · 17,375#62
@sportstarweb · 9,473#63
@nytimes · 188,070#64
@guardian · 42,487#65
@ndtvprofitnews · 47,524#66
@associated_press_news · 7,220#67
@siasatdaily · 5,184#68
@National_Herald · 1,409#69
@wallstreetjournalchannel · 5,893#70
@DailyMaiI · 4,306#71
@KotakNeo · 105,100#72
@eMagzinewspars · 61,769#73
@engpaperzz · 20,846#74
@hindustan_times_0 · 17,758#75
@btsreports · 21,400#76
@feminisminindia · 2,005#77
@news18hindi · 9,826#78
@Navbharattimes · 3,824#79
Read from Telegram’s recommendation API, most recently 24 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.
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.
@ieexplained · 26,057
Telegram ranks this channel #2 of 90 here — alongside 89 others — read 12 September 2026
@THnewsupdates · 247,815
Telegram ranks this channel #3 of 88 here — alongside 87 others — read 10 August 2026
@indianexpress · 121,791
Telegram ranks this channel #9 of 86 here — alongside 85 others — read 14 August 2026
@ThePrintIndia · 22,021
Telegram ranks this channel #15 of 83 here — alongside 82 others — read 20 September 2026
@hindustantimes · 62,753
Telegram ranks this channel #17 of 87 here — alongside 86 others — read 21 August 2026
@The_Hindu_Editorial_News · 50,260
Telegram ranks this channel #21 of 77 here — alongside 76 others — read 25 August 2026
@GkByYashRawatSir · 20,133
Telegram ranks this channel #31 of 54 here — alongside 53 others — read 2 October 2026
@Hindustan · 19,114
Telegram ranks this channel #32 of 78 here — alongside 77 others — read 1 October 2026
@livelawindia · 38,633
Telegram ranks this channel #37 of 81 here — alongside 80 others — read 31 August 2026
@English_Grammar_Mock_Test_Quiz · 32,018
Telegram ranks this channel #41 of 53 here — alongside 52 others — read 4 September 2026
@dinamalardaily · 19,927
Telegram ranks this channel #44 of 68 here — alongside 67 others — read 27 September 2026
@bsindiaofficial · 78,061
Telegram ranks this channel #46 of 88 here — alongside 87 others — read 18 August 2026
@livemint · 111,803
Telegram ranks this channel #56 of 88 here — alongside 87 others — read 14 August 2026
@eduonpathravartha · 23,869
Telegram ranks this channel #70 of 77 here — alongside 76 others — read 18 September 2026
@TheFinancialExpressOnline · 44,740
Telegram ranks this channel #70 of 87 here — alongside 86 others — read 27 August 2026
@English_by_Tarun_Grover_sir · 18,772
Telegram ranks this channel #74 of 87 here — alongside 86 others — read 2 October 2026
@LawPrepJudiciary · 23,869
Telegram ranks this channel #80 of 82 here — alongside 81 others — read 17 September 2026
This channel appears in 17 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
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 13 November 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“The New Indian Express” (@thenewindianexpress), 20,992 subscribers as measured 13 November 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/thenewindianexpress.
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.