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In today’s featured cartoon, R Prasad shows a frustrated H.D. Kumaraswamy whose coalition government will face a floor test on 18 June after a string of resignations by its Congress and JD(S) MLAs. If resignations of the rebel MLAs are accepted, the Congress-JD(S) coalition will lose its majority in the assembly.
Nala Ponnappa just cannot get enough of the political crisis in Karnataka, delivering yet another jibe about how the BJP is closing in on the state government.
Mika Aziz takes a jibe at the postponed launch of Chandrayaan-2, India’s second soft-landing moon mission, due to a “technical glitch”. An expert committee is currently looking into whether the glitch can be fixed for a revised date, on 29-30 June.
Manjul raises a pun on the verbal spat between Home Minister Amit Shah and All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) President Asaduddin Owaisi in Lok Sabha over the 2019 National Investigation Agency (Amendment) Bill.s
Alok Nirantar refers to the rules of the International Cricket Council after England was declared winner in the ICC World Cup final against New Zealand despite the match concluding in a tie.
In the backdrop of Brexit, the England cricket team bagged the ICC World Cup with an incredibly diverse group of members that included the likes of New-Zealander Ben Stokes, Barbadian Jofra Archer, South-African born Jason Roy as well as Moeen Ali and Adil Rashid who are first generation Pakistani-Brits. Sajith Kumar draws for Deccan Herald.