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Snapshot of the day

January 31, 2024

Siddharth Varadarajan

India is paying the price for the Modi government’s alleged decision to hire assassins to kill Sikh activists in Canada and the United States. The Indian Navy’s planned purchase of advances drones US is being held up in Washington as lawmakers