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In today’s featured cartoon, Manjul mocks Delhi CM and Aam Aadmi Party convener Arvind Kejriwal’s poll promise of Rs 1,000 per month to every woman in Punjab, and contrasts it with the slew of measures taken by the United Nations to promote women empowerment.
After Bihar CM Nitish Kumar announced Monday that government employees and people of the state would take pledge not to consume liquor, Sandeep Adhwaryu depicts a few other pledges he could encourage people to take.
Satish Acharya plays on the parable of the blind men describing an elephant to show how hardly anybody understands cryptocurrency, which the Modi government is set to regulate through a bill to be tabled in Parliament next week.
Alok Nirantar reflects on the day-to-day worries for three members of a family — the father worries about high fuel prices, the mother wonders if she’d be able to buy tomatoes after their prices shot up, and the son ponders over the future of cryptocurrency in India.
Alluding to the voice vote over the contentious three farm laws in the Parliament last year, R. Prasad pokes fun at the ‘Ayes’, the ones who voted to pass the bills, after the Modi government agreed to repeal the laws.
Kirtish Bhatt shows a man running towards the airport with his luggage after the UK added Covaxin to its list of approved vaccines for travellers. A woman is trying to stop him, saying approval does not mean all the people who have received the Bharat Biotech vaccine are invited to visit the country.
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