Source health

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Accounts

All accounts are public X accounts, verified using official sources. Lists are updated regularly.

Live TV and Newspapers

Live TV lists 60 news channels (Hindi 12, English 10, Regional 26, World 12). Each one is the channel's own official YouTube channel: its channel ID was read from the channel's @handle page on youtube.com (verified 30 Oct 2026). Streams play in YouTube's own embedded player (youtube-nocookie.com) only after you tap a channel; one plays at a time, and Multi-view 2×2 on desktop plays four muted. Streams are embedded from each channel's official YouTube; Bharat Pulse Live does not host or rebroadcast them. Whether a channel is live, and whether it allows its stream to play on other sites, is checked with YouTube's own public address resolver and oEmbed (kept 5 minutes). Each channel's latest uploads come from its public YouTube feed, or from its public Videos list when the feed does not answer (then the time is approximate and shown with “about”), kept 10 minutes.

Newspapers lists 25 papers. Headlines come from each paper's own public RSS feed or news sitemap; where a paper offers none that this server can read, a news search of the paper's own website is used and the card says so. “Read today's e-paper” opens the publisher's own e-paper site; Bharat Pulse Live does not download, store or show e-paper pages. Headlines via each publisher's public feed; full e-paper opens on the publisher's site. Every channel and paper is in the Source health table above.

X Monitor

Search Monitor reads public news links (site:x.com plus your keyword, last 7 days, English and Hindi editions), because the automated tools cannot search X; results can lag minutes to hours and do not include every post. Account Watch reads each watched account's latest public posts (about 20) using automated tools, with the like, repost, reply and view counts it returns, and falls back to news search. Trend Analytics charts only those numbers and the keyword counts this browser saved each time a search ran; nothing is estimated, and browser snapshots are not shared history. Alerts run in your browser and are stored on this device; they work only while the site is open (no email, SMS or push from a server): it checks saved keywords and watched accounts, flags new posts, and flags a spike when the last hour has at least 3 posts and at least 3× the average hourly volume before it. Account Compare (in Trend Analytics) counts only posts whose time falls inside the chosen range (India time; the default is Today from 00:00:00 to now). It reads each account's own timeline using automated tools, 5 pages (about 100 posts) per request, and keeps reading older pages, up to about 400 posts per account, until the range is reached (reposts are left out because their counts belong to someone else) and shows likes, reposts, replies, quotes, bookmarks and views exactly as returned. Impressions are X's view counts; engagement rate = (likes + reposts + replies + quotes) ÷ views, over posts that have a views count. A pinned post doesn't count as coverage. For busy accounts 100 posts can cover less than a month, so each account shows the date its data starts; older dates are not available from the free reader. Posts read are kept in this browser (up to 1,000 per account) so history builds up on that device. Keywords, watched accounts (up to 25), compare history and alerts are stored in this browser only.

Collection, refresh and time

• Published time is the publication time news search reports for the item (for posts read from X, the time the post went up on X). Received time is when Bharat Pulse Live's server fetched the feed that contained it. All times are shown in IST (UTC+05:30).
• How quickly headlines appear: an item appears only after news search indexes it; that typically takes minutes to hours. In our checks on 29 Oct 2026 a typical item was 5–13 hours old.
• When a feed fails: the server serves its last good copy (marked “source temporarily unavailable”), and your browser falls back to the copy it saved last (marked “showing saved data”), never a made-up item.

Duplicates

Identical links are shown once (tracking parameters such as utm_* are ignored). Different outlets' headlines are grouped into one card with an “N sources” button only when they share at least 5 meaningful words and either 60% of all their words overlap, or 85% of the shorter headline (6+ words) appears in the longer one. Common words (“the”, “के”, “news”…) are ignored. The rule is deliberately cautious: two different stories are never merged on a few shared words, so some true duplicates stay separate.

Public trackers: hashtag matching rules

The “Public: Support” and “Public: Criticism” tabs are hashtag-based trackers, not sentiment analysis. A post appears when news search returns it for the search terms below and its text contains one of the “keep” words. A post that the Positive / Negative rule (below) reads as against the Union government is also left out of Support, and one it reads as for the government is left out of Criticism.

Excluded

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Known biases and false-positive risks

• The hashtag lists were chosen by hand on 29 Oct 2026 from what news search was returning; they cover a few campaigns, not public opinion as a whole.
• A post can use a hashtag to mock it, quote it or report on it; it still lands in that tab.
• When the post author is unknown (common on this server), party, minister and media posts can slip through the exclusion rules.
• Volume reflects what news search chose to index, not how many people posted.

Positive / Negative on cards: stance toward the Union government

Cards carry a Positive, Negative or Neutral chip set by one plain rule that runs in your browser (no AI): Positive when the text praises, supports or defends the Union government, the Prime Minister, a Union minister or a government policy (achievements, launches, approvals, people backing the government, and the government answering its critics); Negative when it criticises, attacks or blames them (opposition, experts or courts criticising the government, protests against it, failures pinned on it); Neutral when it is not about the Union government, takes no stance, or carries both. It reads who does what to whom, not single words: “Congress ka scam” or a terror attack alone are Neutral, “Opposition slams Centre” is Negative, “Minister slams Opposition” is Positive. The same rule sorts the News Sentiment page and keeps the Public Support / Public Criticism trackers apart. Hovering the chip shows the words it matched; there is no confidence score.

• Limits: it reads only Hindi, Hinglish and English; it cannot detect sarcasm, quotes or long sentences that change direction; a “not” or “नहीं” next to a word reverses it but other negation is missed; it marks the stance of the text, not public opinion or whether a policy is good or bad.

Data status labels

The chip in the header uses the latest source-health check, evaluated in this order:

• Unavailable no successful collection yet, or fewer than half of the checked feeds answered.
• Delayed the last successful collection is more than 15 minutes old (three missed 5-minute cycles).
• Partial at least one feed failed, or more than 20% of feeds returned no items.
• Updated everything else: collected within 15 minutes, no feed errors, at most 20% empty.

A feed is counted as stale when it answered but its newest item is older than 12 hours (24 hours for the PM's own-post feeds, 72 hours for the opposition leaders' own-post feeds, which look back 3 days). Stale feeds are reported, but do not change the chip, because news search indexing delay makes some staleness normal.

History and coverage gaps

• History: there is no server-side archive. Feeds return roughly the last 24 hours (3 days for single opposition leaders). Trend lines use snapshots saved in your own browser since your first visit (the Trends page shows when tracking began in this browser).
• Languages: News search has no Kannada, Urdu or Odia edition for India, so those three come from 2 to 3 major publishers' own feeds each (listed under Sources) rather than from the top-story ranking; coverage is narrower than the news search languages. Urdu is the thinnest: Inquilab and Siasat Urdu have no feed this server can read. Assamese and other languages are not covered.
• X posts: known accounts (PM Modi, PMO, the listed opposition leaders, PTI, ANI, IANS, UNI) are read from their public timelines using automated tools that X does not run; if it stops answering, the page falls back to News search's index of X, which is hours late. Every other X post comes only from News search's index, so most posts never appear and their authors are often unknown on this server. PTI and UNI have no Hindi X account that these sources return.
• Profile photos: saved copies for the fixed list of leaders and agencies; for other accounts, the photo X shows publicly, fetched by this site. When no photo can be found, the card shows the account's initials.
• Small states and UTs are often thin or empty in a 24-hour window.
• Not offered: email, SMS or push alerts that work when the site is closed (Alerts and Saved Searches run only in your browser, stored on your device); shared history and server scheduling; accounts and audit log; official paid X data; coordinated-activity detection; AI sentiment.

Privacy and corrections

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• Corrections: if a link, label or rule here is wrong, use the contact form or the Grievance Officer listed in the Privacy Policy. Headlines themselves belong to their publishers; Bharat Pulse Live cannot edit them.