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In today’s featured cartoon, Alok Nirantar gives his take on Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s remarks during a press conference in Washington DC last week. “I will look at it, not [as] the rupee sliding and look at it as the dollar strengthening incessantly,” Sitharaman had said in response to a question about the value of the Indian rupee falling to an all-time low against the American dollar earlier this month.
E.P. Unny, while referring to the central government’s rejection of India’s ranking on the Global Hunger Index (GHI), alludes to the chaos that erupted at railway stations and bus stands across Uttar Pradesh as over 37 lakh aspirants appeared for the UP Preliminary Eligibility Test (UPPET) for ‘Group C’ state government jobs last week.
Sajith Kumar comments on the Centre’s rejection of India’s rank (107 of 121 countries) on the Global Hunger Index.
Sorit Gupto draws on Coca Cola sponsoring COP27 while referring to Coke Zero and how the beverage giant is yet to compensate those affected by its Plachimada plant in Kerala which was closed in 2004 after claims that it allegedly led to contamination of groundwater.
R. Prasad, alluding to the Communist Party of India’s 24th party congress which began on 14 October at Vijayawada, opines on a proposal by the CPI leadership to amend the party’s constitution and set an upper age cap of 75 years for elections to party forums.