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In today’s featured cartoon, Manjul illustrates the ‘game of chess’ that is being played by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping over the standoff along the Line of Actual Control.
Alok Nirantar takes a dig at the ‘preoccupation’ of Indian news channels with Narcotics Control Bureau’s probe into Bollywood’s alleged drugs nexus and the summons issued to actor Deepika Padukone, while wilfully ignoring farmers’ protests.
Kirtish Bhatt takes a swipe at the fervour around Bihar DGP Gupteshwar Pandey applying for VRS (voluntary retirement scheme) while India’s GDP shows no sign of improving.
E P Unny takes a dig at India’s investigating agencies that are still trying to find ‘drugs’ in Bollywood while 44 Indian banks and transactions amounting to $1 billion have been flagged as suspicious by a US regulator. He further suggests Delhi Police might be able to help since it managed to produce a 17-000 page charge sheet in the Delhi riots case.
Sandeep Adhwaryu’s take on how Indian civilisation will eventually be ‘wiped out’ and no, it’s not because of Covid-19.