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In today’s featured cartoon, Manjul comments on the rising incidents of rape, especially in the light of the horrific rape and murder of a 27-year-old veterinary doctor in Hyderabad, which has sent shock waves across the country.
Sandeep Adhwaryu, too, comments on the current state of affairs with regard to rapes in India.
Manjul takes a dig at the Narendra Modi government for the shocking GDP growth figure for the July-September quarter, which is lowest in 26 quarters.
Satish Acharya weighs in on industrialist Rahul Bajaj’s comments at Economic Times Awards held in the national capital Sunday. Bajaj said that people in India are fearful of speaking against the Narendra Modi government. The event was attended by Home Minister Amit Shah, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Railway Minister Piyush Goyal.
Mahmud, too, weighs in on the controversy but suggests that perhaps not all industrialists, namely Ambani and Adani, are operating in fear of the government.
This year’s India Corruption Survey data showed that over 50 per cent Indians paid bribes in the last twelve months. Kirtish Bhatt sarcastically suggests that if the economy would have been in better shape, more Indians would have paid bribes.
Sridhar throws light on the fact that Andhra Pradesh has seen the second-highest number of snake bites in the country in 2018. India, overall, had reported 885 deaths and 1.64 lakh snake bite-related cases last year.