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In today’s featured cartoon, Alok Nirantar gives his take on the rapport PM Modi shares with billionaire Gautam Adani in the backdrop of private-sector lenders raising their interest rates in line with the hike in repo rate affected by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
Sandeep Adhwaryu pokes fun at the Income Tax (IT) department for conducting a ‘survey‘ of the offices of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in Delhi and Mumbai weeks after the central government banned the screening of a two-part BBC documentary examining PM Modi’s handling of the 2002 Gujarat riots as then chief minister of the state.
Satish Acharya comments on the central government’s efforts to ensure the success of the G20 Summit to be held later this year, while alluding to IT department sleuths conducting a ‘survey’ at the offices of the BBC and the Adani Group-Hindenburg Research row.
Drawing on incidents involving Chinese spy balloons spotted over the US, Nala Ponnappa too depicts the IT department ‘survey’ of BBC offices in Delhi and Mumbai.
Irshad Kaptan draws on the exchange of gifts on the occasion of Valentine’s Day. In the illustration, a woman upon receiving a rose from her husband tells him, “Thank you so much! I’ll learn how to turn this single flower into a bouquet from YouTube.”