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In today’s featured cartoon, Sandeep Adhwaryu teams up two burning issues this week— Piyush Goyal’s ‘gravity’ comments and a Delhi hospital that are making patients with serious head injuries listen to Vedic Mahamrityunjay mantra as part of a study.
Mika Aziz takes a swipe at Railways Minister Piyush Goyal who, while responding to question of how India will become a $5 trillion economy, ended up crediting Albert Einstein with discovering gravity as opposed to Isaac Newton.
Manjul refers to states watering down the huge traffic penalties that the Modi government has brought in through the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill, 2019.
R. Prasad takes a dig at UP minister Mukut Bihari Verma assertion that the “Supreme Court is ours”, while on the topic of the Ayodhya dispute. The remarks were slammed by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi.
Nala Ponnappa draws a parallel between the number of Opposition leaders that have been booked by the ED and CBI in recent weeks, and drop in demand in the auto sector.
Sajith Kumar takes a swipe at the present dispensation as for the first time since 2012, no institution from India has been placed in the Times Higher Education’s 2020 rankings.