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In today’s featured image, Sajith Kumar clubs three issues that have made headlines — PM Modi’s fitness campaign, Chandrayaan-2’s unsuccessful attempt at a moon landing and the FIR against journalist Pawan Jaiswal after his video of salt and roti being served as a UP school’s mid-day meal went viral.
Hemant Morparia takes a dig at the revised hefty fines for traffic violations. Under the amended law, the penalty for driving without a licence has been increased 10 times to Rs 5,000 while the fine for drunk driving has been substantially hiked to Rs 10,000.
Nirantar takes a jibe at the number of opposition politicians who have come under the scanner of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) under the Modi government. The arrests of Congress leaders P. Chidambaram and D.K. Shivakumar have been on ED-related cases.
E.P Unny depicts the nation’s hopes that Chandrayaan-2’s Vikram lander will be successful in touching down on the Moon.
Sandeep Adhwaryu, on the other hand, has an ‘extra-terrestrial’ take on the moon mission.