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In today’s featured cartoon, cartoonist Alok takes a dig at the Centre’s decision to slash the prices of domestic LPG cyliners by Rs 200, ahead of crucal state and general elections.
Kirtish Bhatt’s cartoon alludes to the widely-circulated video from a Muzaffarnagar school, purportedly spreading hatred towards a community, and contrasts it with the case of a live worm that was plucked from a woman’s brain in Australia recently.
Sajith Kumar comments on the rising food inflation in the country. India’s consumer price index-based inflation surged to 4.81 per cent in June from 4.3 per cent in May on the back of higher food inflation.
Manjul takes a dig at the wave of job cuts that have taken place recently, with companies like Byju’s, Cuemath handing pinks slips to their employees.
Cartoonist Mika Aziz alludes to the decision regarding the appointment of a convenor for the Opposition alliance, INDIA, that is likely to be made in its meeting on 31 August. Several names such as Bihar CM Nitish Kumar and Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge are frontrunners for the position.