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In today’s featured cartoon, Alok Nirantar spotlights the end of Bhagat Singh Koshyari’s controversial stint as governor of Maharashtra, suggesting that, unlike his time at the Raj Bhavan in Mumbai, the veteran BJP leader’s exit was low-key.
Drawing on the Animal Welfare Board of India’s now-withdrawn appeal for 14 February to be celebrated as “Cow Hug Day”, Sajith Kumar gives his take on how an “ultranationalist friend” can serve as one’s valentine — all one needs is a nose rope.
Irshad Kaptan depicts the US Department of Commerce’s decision to blacklist six Chinese entities for allegedly supporting China’s aerospace programmes days after American authorities shot down a Chinese spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina.
Sandeep Adhwaryu pokes fun at Karnataka BJP chief Nalin Kumar Kateel for his remarks that the assembly elections later this year will be all “about Tipu vs Savarkar”.
Nala Ponnappa is his humorous self as he comments on the discovery of 5.6 million tonnes of Lithium deposits — a key component of EV batteries — in J&K’s Reasi district.