Channel
@orftg
On this record: Growth · Engagement · Reactions · Posts · Citations · Telegram's recommendations · Cross-platform identity · Cite this entry
17,424subscribers
-13 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 March 2018 and 31 August 2021 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 6 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 5 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 25 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 5 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/orftg |
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 5 Sept 2026, 12:21 | 17,424 | -14 |
| 3 Sept 2026, 16:15 | 17,438 | +12 |
| 2 Sept 2026, 10:37 | 17,426 | -5 |
| 1 Sept 2026, 07:27 | 17,431 | -8 |
| 31 Aug 2026, 10:24 | 17,439 | -5 |
| 30 Aug 2026, 08:23 | 17,444 | -2 |
| 29 Aug 2026, 10:12 | 17,446 | +1 |
| 27 Aug 2026, 08:06 | 17,445 | -2 |
| 26 Aug 2026, 04:56 | 17,447 | +6 |
| 25 Aug 2026, 04:22 | 17,441 | +7 |
| 23 Aug 2026, 23:59 | 17,434 | +1 |
| 22 Aug 2026, 05:18 | 17,433 | -6 |
| 20 Aug 2026, 19:08 | 17,439 | +6 |
| 19 Aug 2026, 16:28 | 17,433 | +6 |
| 18 Aug 2026, 16:45 | 17,427 | +1 |
| 17 Aug 2026, 14:54 | 17,426 | -1 |
| 16 Aug 2026, 07:56 | 17,427 | -3 |
| 14 Aug 2026, 20:54 | 17,430 | -1 |
| 12 Aug 2026, 14:03 | 17,431 | +1 |
| 11 Aug 2026, 12:42 | 17,430 | first reading |
117 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 54 pages of 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 29 of 92 measured posts that carry a reaction reading, and over those same posts' views.
| Window | Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 3 September 2026 |
|---|---|
| Posts held | 117 (1 August 2026 – 3 September 2026) |
| Views total | 51,992 |
| Reactions total | 37 |
| Forwards / comments | not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated |
| Readings taken | 3 Sept 2026, 09:18 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.
38 reactions across 27 posts, in 2 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 89.5% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 34 | 89.5% | |
| 👍 | 4 | 10.5% |
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 32 of the 117 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 38 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 117 most recent posts we hold, published 1 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.
Defence industrial corridors have historically helped seed new centres of economic and technological activity. In India, the Uttar Pradesh Defence Industrial Corridor (UPDIC) is beginning to reshape how defence capabilities are built and exported — from missile integration in Lucknow to ammunition manufacturing in Kanpur. This brief argues that much of India's aspiration to build an internationally credible and rel…
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For nearly six decades, France has been the leading proponent of European strategic autonomy. As more European countries embrace this notion, driven by growing tensions between the United States and the European Union, it might seem as though France itself has become the obstacle. This brief argues that as the transatlantic relationship shifts from an American-led security framework to a European-led one, its succe…
There appears to be no endgame in sight after four-and-a-half years of fighting in Ukraine, with peace negotiations making no progress in 2026. This brief explains that although the war is at an obvious deadlock, whether this 'escalate to de-escalate' approach can force a peaceful solution remains to be seen. But one thing is clear: the Russia-Ukraine war will end in an armistice or a peace agreement rather than a t…
At the 16th BRICS Health Ministers' Meeting, under India's chairmanship, traditional medicine received formal recognition for the first time. For African countries, where traditional medicine is also widely practised, this presents an opportunity. This brief argues that if India and African countries can build a shared ecosystem of research, regulation, education, manufacturing, and innovation in traditional medici…
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Around 7 in 10 smallholders say a lack of formal finance has limited their ability to invest in practices that build climate resilience. Since 2019, Dvara E-Registry has run KhetScore, an alternate credit score that lets a lender assess farmers by what their land does rather than what they own. Having lent ₹215 crore, roughly US$22 million, to more than 42,500 farmers, this brief explains how, through machine-learn…
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The core of AI competition has shifted. From model capability to infrastructure buildout, where private capital, not government, is the principal driver. Even with concerns about an AI bubble, investment in data centre infrastructure is projected to reach US$7 trillion by 2030. This brief argues that the key question is not who invents the most advanced AI, but where it is built, who finances it, and under whose t…
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Showing the 12 most recent of 117 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.
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.
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 3 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 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 5 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Observer Research Foundation” (@orftg), 17,424 subscribers as measured 5 September 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.