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Over to Siddharth Varadarajan for today’s Cable
Snapshot of the day
June 30, 2025
Siddharth Varadarajan
In an incident that is symptomatic of the kind of mob rule that accompanies the Bharatiya Janata Party wherever it is in power, a senior bureaucrat, Ratnakar Sahoo, was dragged out of his office in Bhubhaneshwar,Odisha today and assaulted by goons linked to a local BJP leader. The shocking assault was captured on video. Former Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has demanded that Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi take “immediate action” against the men involved.
India’s defence attache in Indonesia has become the third senior Indian military official to acknowledge that India had lost more than one fighter aircraft during Operation Sindoor. Speaking at a seminar in Jakarta, Captain Shiv Kumar of the Indian Navy added that these losses occurred “only because of the constraint given by the political leadership to not attack the
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