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In today’s featured cartoon, Alok Nirantar takes a swipe at the government after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) took action against Chanda Kochhar, Deepak Kochhar and Venugopal Dhoot in a loan fraud case, whereas big defaulters, including Vijay Mallya, Nirav Modi, Mehul Choksi and Lalit Modi, are roaming free in foreign shores.
Kirtish Bhatt mocks the recent happening in Madhya Pradesh’s Rewa district where the house of a man was demolished after a video of him assaulting his girlfriend went viral. CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan had later tweeted that the accused was arrested Saturday in Mirzapur.
E. P. Unny draws on the disclosure of the head of the National Archives of India (NAI) that there are no records of the wars of 1962, 1965, and 1971. As the NAI chief claimed multiple requests to transfer their non-current files were left unheard, the cartoon suggests that the ministries could do it surreptitiously to evade public gaze.
Satish Acharya slams Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Pragya Singh Thakur who delivered an inflammatory speech at the Hindu Jagarana Vedike’s South Region annual convention in Karnataka’s Shivamogga.
Sandheep Adhwaryu highlights the data presented by the Finance Ministry in the Rajya Sabha which shows that in the past 5 years, commercial banks recovered just 13 per cent of the total loan write-offs which stands at about Rs 10 lakh crore. The disclosure comes at a time when banks refuse to name big defaulters citing ‘confidentiality of customer data’.