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In today’s featured cartoon, Sandeep Adhwaryu suggests that even though India couldn’t make it to the World Cup final, it still made history after Dutee Chand clinched a gold medal in the World Universiade.
Sajith Kumar weighs in on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s instruction to BJP MPs earlier this week about embarking on a 150-km ‘padayatra’ in their constituencies between October 2 and October 31, the birth anniversaries of Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, respectively, while also alluding to Bhopal MP Pragya Thakur, who had called Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse a patriot.
Kirtish Bhatt, for the BBC News Hindi, weighs in on the dire financial condition of state-owned BSNL.
Manjul takes a jibe at Karnataka Assembly Speaker K.R. Ramesh Kumar, who said Tuesday that resignation letters of eight out of 13 MLAs of the ruling Congress-JD(S) coalition were not in the prescribed format. The Speaker has asked those MLAs to submit their resignations properly.
Nala Ponnappa also weighs in on the Karnataka political crisis, referring to Congress leader D.K. Shivakumar who went to Mumbai to pacify rebel lawmakers camping in a hotel.
Satish Acharya also depicts the Karnataka crisis, referring to the fact that no one is being allowed to meet the rebel lawmakers.