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@bar_and_bench
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16,461subscribers
+143 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 10,000–31,623.
| Telegram ID | -1001484190199 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @bar_and_bench |
| Created | Between 1 April 2019 and 30 September 2021 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 6 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 23 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 46 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 23 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/bar_and_bench |
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 99% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 23 Oct 2026, 23:48 | 16,461 | +11 |
| 23 Oct 2026, 00:44 | 16,450 | -7 |
| 21 Oct 2026, 21:28 | 16,457 | -3 |
| 20 Oct 2026, 13:48 | 16,460 | -7 |
| 19 Oct 2026, 10:39 | 16,467 | -8 |
| 18 Oct 2026, 08:59 | 16,475 | +1 |
| 17 Oct 2026, 08:45 | 16,474 | +5 |
| 16 Oct 2026, 06:28 | 16,469 | +5 |
| 15 Oct 2026, 06:37 | 16,464 | +17 |
| 14 Oct 2026, 05:06 | 16,447 | -6 |
| 12 Oct 2026, 07:20 | 16,453 | -4 |
| 7 Oct 2026, 11:39 | 16,457 | -4 |
| 2 Oct 2026, 17:00 | 16,461 | +20 |
| 18 Sept 2026, 17:38 | 16,441 | -6 |
| 16 Sept 2026, 12:01 | 16,447 | +4 |
| 14 Sept 2026, 17:16 | 16,443 | +8 |
| 13 Sept 2026, 02:19 | 16,435 | +3 |
| 11 Sept 2026, 05:55 | 16,432 | +25 |
| 8 Sept 2026, 06:20 | 16,407 | +3 |
| 5 Sept 2026, 02:40 | 16,404 | first reading |
552 posts held, back to 6 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 54 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 552 posts for this entry, the most recent from 3 September 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
151 reactions across 96 posts, in 16 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 27.2% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| 👍 | 41 | 27.2% | |
| ❤ | 37 | 24.5% | |
| 😁 | 16 | 10.6% | |
| 🤡 | 13 | 8.61% | |
| 👎 | 10 | 6.62% | |
| 🔥 | 9 | 5.96% | |
| 🤣 | 7 | 4.64% | |
| 🍌 | 4 | 2.65% | |
| 🌚 | 3 | 1.99% | |
| 👏 | 3 | 1.99% | |
| 🍾 | 2 | 1.32% | |
| 💩 | 2 | 1.32% | |
| 🎉 | 1 | 0.662% | |
| 💅 | 1 | 0.662% | |
| 🗿 | 1 | 0.662% | |
| 🥱 | 1 | 0.662% |
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 106 of the 552 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 151 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 552 most recent posts we hold, published 6 August 2026 to 3 September 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.
Change the date of anti-reservation protest: Delhi High Court to Kshatriya Karni Sena The Court said that it will hear the matter after considering the response of the Delhi Police. https://www.barandbench.com/news/change-the-date-of-anti-reservation-protest-delhi-high-court-to-kshatriya-karni-sena
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Delhi court grants bail to AAP's Satyendar Jain in ACB case Jain was arrested by the ACB on August 18 in connection with alleged irregularities in the tendering process for sewage treatment plant projects of the Delhi Jal Board (DJB). https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/delhi-court-grants-bail-to-aaps-satyendar-jain-in-acb-case
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Punjab & Haryana High Court quashes dismissal of DSP accused of facilitating Lawrence Bishnoi TV interview Interviews of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, accused in the Sidhu Moosewala murder case, were broadcast by ABP Sanjha in March 2023. https://www.barandbench.com/news/punjab-haryana-high-court-quashes-dismissal-of-dsp-accused-of-facilitating-lawrence-bishnoi-tv-interview
Plea in Supreme Court to stop perks, amenities to Constitutional functionaries who resign to avoid removal The Court issued notice to the government on a plea by one Pratik Vira flagging the trend of Constitutional functionaries resigning from office to avoid removal. https://www.barandbench.com/news/plea-in-supreme-court-to-stop-perks-amenities-to-constitutional-functionaries-who-resign-to-avoid-removal
NEET leak: Delhi HC allows two candidates named as CBI witnesses to take part in counselling for admission The Court observed that the allegations against the candidates had not yet been tested in accordance with law and that withholding their results could lead to consequences that may not be adequately remedied later. https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/neet-leak-delhi-hc-allows-two-candidates-named-as-cb…
Absence of word 'penetration' in child victim's testimony not ground to acquit rape accused: Delhi HC A bench of Justices Navin Chawla and Ravinder Dudeja of High Court held that the trial court committed a grave error by insisting on technical language from a toddler. https://www.barandbench.com/news/absence-of-word-penetration-in-child-victims-testimony-not-ground-to-acquit-rape-accused-delhi-hc
BCI has no power to take disciplinary action against law students: Supreme Court rules after NALSAR row Such power is vested in the university or educational institution in which the students are enrolled, the Court said. https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/bci-has-no-power-to-take-disciplinary-action-against-law-students-supreme-court-rules-after-nalsar-row
Delhi High Court restrains K Kavitha from making allegations against The Pioneer newspaper A ₹11 crore defamation suit has been filed against Kavitha for her allegations that the 160-year-old daily was secretly acquired by KTR and now reflects BRS' views. https://www.barandbench.com/news/delhi-high-court-restrains-k-kavitha-from-making-allegations-against-the-pioneer-newspaper
Delhi SIR: Delhi HC says booth level agents of political parties liable only for elector details they can verify Delhi Congress leaders had approached the HC against ECI mandate requiring BLAs to give undertakings that they verified all particulars contained in enumeration forms. https://www.barandbench.com/news/delhi-sir-delhi-hc-says-booth-level-agents-of-political-parties-liable-only-for-elector-details-they-can…
Approach High Court: Supreme Court to lawyers assaulted during protest against BCI Chairman Justice Bagchi remarked that lawyers ordinarily should not resort to protests as they belong to a disciplined community. The law gives them the opportunity to approach the appropriate forum, he said. https://www.barandbench.com/news/approach-high-court-supreme-court-to-lawyers-assaulted-during-protest-against-bci-chairman
Supreme Court orders release of YouTuber Gulshan Pahuja who made allegations against judges In May this year, the Delhi High Court sentenced Pahuja to six months of imprisonment and a ₹2,000 fine for committing criminal contempt of court. https://www.barandbench.com/news/supreme-court-orders-release-of-youtuber-gulshan-pahuja-who-made-allegations-against-judges
Madras High Court dismisses MK Stalin’s plea alleging irregularities in EVM verification The Election Commission had argued that the writ petition was barred by Article 329(b) and that Stalin’s remedy lay in an election petition. https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/madras-high-court-dismisses-mk-stalins-plea-alleging-irregularities-in-evm-verification
Showing the 12 most recent of 552 posts we hold for @bar_and_bench. 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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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 16 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total. 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 23 October 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Bar & Bench” (@bar_and_bench), 16,461 subscribers as measured 23 October 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/bar_and_bench.
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.