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Snapshot of the day

July 4, 2024

Siddharth Varadarajan

The controversy over the benefits available to the families of Agniveer – or limited tenure – soldiers killed in action refuses to die down after the Modi government dragged the army into the political slugfest to rebut the leader of opposition, Rahul Gandhi. From the details put out by the army last night, it was evident that the government had made an insurance payout of Rs 48 lakh to the family of the Agniveer Gandhi had spoken about and that