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In today’s featured cartoon, R. Prasad illustrates the US’s recent diplomatic snub to Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, with the latter not being welcomed by any of Washington’s top-ranking officials on his maiden visit to the country.
Manjul couples the launch of India’s ambitious moon mission, Chandrayaan-2, with Karnataka’s Congress-JD(S) coalition government which is suspected to be on its way out.
Alok Nirantar weighs in on Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray’s son, Aaditya Thackeray’s grand political take-off with his 4,000 km state-tour right ahead of the Maharashtra assembly elections.
Nala Ponnappa comments on the growing disconnect between the helpless public and the government in Karnataka, citing the prolonged political crisis between the state’s rival forces — the BJP and the Congress-JD(S) alliance.
Sajith Kumar refers to yet another postponement of Karnataka assembly’s floor test, leaving many sceptical of the survival of chief minister H.D. Kumaraswamy’s government.
Mike Aziz also illustrates the Karnataka assembly’s floor test and the difficult task at hand for chief minister H.D. Kumaraswamy.
Mahamud depicts the clash between Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath and Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi after the latter was detained by the state police during her visit to the families of Sonbhadra shoot-out victims.