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In today’s featured cartoon, Sandeep Adhwaryu alludes to the anti-hijab protests that have erupted in Iran following the death of 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini in the custody of Iran’s morality police. Amini was detained for wearing an “improper hijab” which is punishable under the country’s mandatory hijab law passed in 1981.
E. P. Unny gives his take on allegations against the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of misusing central agencies to strong-arm opposition leaders into shifting alliances.
R. Prasad refers to reports hinting at Congress MP Shashi Tharoor’s nomination for the party’s presidential polls and how he may be the first non-Gandhi Congress president since Sitaram Kesri if elected to the top post.
Sajith Kumar, while referring to claims that former prime minister Manmohan Singh ‘allowed his authority to be undermined’ by Congress president Sonia Gandhi, comments on Gandhi reportedly telling party leaders that she will play a “neutral role” in the process to elect a new Congress president.
Alok Nirantar pays tribute to entertainer Raju Srivastav who passed away at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi Wednesday at the age of 58, a month after he suffered a heart attack while working out.