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In today’s featured cartoon, E.P. Unny draws on the new income tax regime proposed by Union Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her Budget speech Wednesday. Taxpayers will have the option to remain in the old tax regime if they so wish, she announced.
Alok Nirantar depicts the plunge in shares of Adani Group companies in the aftermath of the Hindenburg report accusing it of “brazen stock manipulation and accounting fraud”. According to one report, the Adani group’s market losses exceeded $100 billion Thursday.
Manjul uses his illustration to highlight the burning issue of garbage disposal in tourist hotspots in the country’s hill states.
Sandeep Adhwaryu pokes fun at the central government for hailing the Union Budget 2023 as the “first budget of Amrit Kaal“, while referring to the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s thrust on “vikas” (development) in earlier election campaigns.
Nala Ponnappa, too, alludes to the government’s proposed new income tax regime and efforts to simplify the process for filing returns.
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