Fighting Terror Demands Partnership, Not Primacy; How the 'Duelling Delegations' Fared Abroad; US General Praises Pak's Partnership in Counter-Terrorism

A new translation of the Milindapanha, tracking the decline of Indian journalism, a visit to Bangaldesh's biggest temple town

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Over to Siddharth Varadarajan for today’s Cable

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Snapshot of the day

June 11, 2025

Siddharth Varadarajan

SpaceX has said the highly anticipated Axiom-4 (Ax-4) mission, using its Falcon 9 spacecraft, is being delayed to complete repair works related to an LOx leak. The mission was set to take Indian Air Force officer Shubhanshu Shukla and three other crew members to the International Space Station (ISS) today. In its own post, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said that the leak was detected during post static fire booster inspections, and a new date would be shared soon. A new date was not immediately stated while ISRO said that the launch will only be cleared after the leak is resolved and necessary validation tests by experts of Axiom and SpaceX are completed. This is the second time that the Ax-4 mission has been delayed, after the launch was postponed by a day from June 10 to June 11, due to weather conditions.

Walter Ladwig has some keen observations on the performance of the Indian and Pakistani ‘duelling delegations’ which visited London last week to hard sell their governments’ respective positions in the aftermath of the recent