y k y cm DEFINING CONFIDENCE MP CABINET EXPANSION COPS SUSPENDED Actor Taapsee Pannu has shared a picture Madhya Pradesh Cabinet was expanded Sunday Eight police officials in Pakistan were suspended for on social media, which is all about with the induction of two loyalists of BJP dereliction of duty after a Hindu temple was vandalised and set on fire being confident LEISURE | P2 leader Jyotiraditya Scindia TWO STATES | P7 INTERNATIONAL | P10 VOLUME 10, ISSUE 273 | www.orissapost.com BHUBANESWAR | MONDAY, JANUARY 4 | 2021 12 PAGES | `4.00 Covishield, Covaxin approved for emergency use AGENCIES December 6 and 7, respectively. he vaccine will be first The UK and Argentina have already offered to one crore Withdraw approval New Delhi, Jan 3: Eleven months after T approved the Oxford-AstraZeneca vac- healthcare workers, along the first case of deadly coronavirus with two crore frontline and cine. More than five crore doses of for Covaxin: AIDAN was detected in India, Drug Controller essential workers the vaccine have already been stock- NEW DELHI: The All India Drug General of India (DCGI) VG Somani and 27 crore elderly with piled by its manufacturer, Serum Action Network (AIDAN) said it Sunday approved Serum Institute of co-morbidities Institute of India. India’s ‘Covishield’ vaccine and Bharat Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine will is shocked to learn of the SEC’s Biotech's 'Covaxin' for emergency use, erum Institute of India play a major role in India’s plan to recommendation to grant REU paving the way for their roll-out and ad- Sthis week said it has vaccinate its population against Covid- approval to Bharat Biotech’s ‘10 crore Indians’ card ministration to millions. stockpiled 40-50 million doses 19 due to several factors – low-cost, Covaxin in “clinical trial mode” This is a major relief for India which of its Covid-19 vaccine. India ease of storage and transport. and “especially in the context of infection by mutant strains”. “In has the second highest number of in- is likely to receive a majority Serum Institute of India this week data selling on Dark Web’ of these 50 million doses light of the intense concerns fections in the world, after the US. The said it has a stockpiled 40-50 million arising from the absence of Central government plans to vaccinate doses of its Covid-19 vaccine. India is efficacy data and hence the The massive data dump on the Dark Web nearly 30 crore people in the first phase Astra Zeneca’s ‘Covishield’ and Bharat context of infection by mutant strains. likely to receive a majority of these 50 limited regulatory review of the of drive in the next six to eight months. Biotech’s indigenous ‘Covaxin’ for Pune-based Serum Institute of India million doses. vaccine candidate, the has been leaked from a compromised server The vaccine will be first offered to one emergency use approval January 1 has partnered with Oxford-AstraZeneca As far as Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin implications of public rollout of of digital payments gateway Juspay crore healthcare workers, along with and 2, respectively. The final call was for conducting clinical trials and man- is concerned, it is India’s first in- an untested product, and lack of two crore frontline and essential work- to be taken by the DCGI. ufacturing ‘Covishield’, while Bharat digenous vaccine for coronavirus. The transparency we urge the DCGI INDO-ASIAN NEWS SERVICE pany spokesperson said in a ers and 27 crore elderly, mostly above The expert panel recommended Biotech has collaborated with the inactivated virus vaccine is being de- to reconsider the statement. the age of 50 years with co-morbidities. granting permission for restricted Indian Council of Medical Research veloped in collaboration with the recommendations of the SEC in New Delhi, Jan 3: “Some data records con- The Subject Expert Committee, emergency use of ‘Covaxin’ in “pub- (ICMR) for ‘Covaxin’. Indian Council of Medical Research granting the REU approval to Independent cyber security taining non-anonymised, tasked with vetting the vaccine pro- lic interest” as an abundant precaution, Serum and Bharat Biotech Pfizer had (ICMR) and the National Institute of Covaxin,” it said. researcher Rajshekhar plain-text email and phone posals, had recommended Oxford- in clinical trial mode, especially in the applied for the accelerated approval Virology (NIV). (More P8 & P11) Rajaharia claimed Sunday numbers were compro- that data of nearly 10 crore mised, which form a fraction credit and debit card hold- of the 10 crore data records,” ers in the country is being the spokesperson added. IRREGULAR by MANJUL sold for an undisclosed However, Rajaharia State colleges, varsities to reopen Jan 11 amount on the Dark Web. claimed that the data was According to Rajaharia, being sold on the Dark Web POST NEWS NETWORK the massive data dump on for an undisclosed amount Matric students to answer 80 marks papers the Dark Web has via cryptocurrency Bhubaneswar, Jan 3: Odisha gov- been leaked from Bitcoin. ernment Sunday announced that phys- BHUBANESWAR: School and Mass However, the overall valuation in a compromised “For this ical classes in colleges and universities Education minister Samir Ranjan each paper will be for 100 marks. Dash server of data, hackers in the state will resume from January Dash Sunday said Class X students ap- explained that 20 marks will be eval- Bangalore- are also con- 11 for the students of final year un- pearing for the annual Matric exams uated on the basis of the percentage based digital tacting via dergraduate and post-graduate courses. in Odisha this year will have to answer secured by an examinee from the payments Telegram,” The penultimate semester exams 80 marks in each paper. given 80 marks in that paper. gateway he said. for the students of UG/PG courses will The Board of Secondary Education The results will be announced Juspay. According be held from March 16 to March 31 and (BSE) has decided that 50 marks will within 45-50 days, he pointed out. JusPay told to him, PCI the final semester examinations will take commence physical classroom teach- comprise objective questions in the The minister further said a decision this news agency DSS (Payment Please list myself and my lover in place between June 16 and June 30, a ing for students of 2020-21 Final Year OMR (optical mark recognition) for- on the reopening of hostels will that no card num- Card Industry Data priority list. We would at least like to meet notification issued by the Higher UG/PG courses from 11-01- mat and the remaining 30 marks will be taken later after reviewing the bers or financial infor- Security Standard) have this Valentine’s Day! Education department said. 2021(Monday),” the notification said. be subjective, the minister added. Covid-19 situation. mation was compromised been followed by Juspay in The government decided to reopen The government also issued a guide- during the cyber-attack and storing users’ card infor- colleges and universities considering line for the conduct of classroom teach- It has been made mandatory for all institutes, it said. Hostels will be opened the actual number is much mation. SHORT TAKES the improvement in Covid-19 situation ing which should be held in a regular the persons coming to colleges and var- from January 10 only for 2020- 21 final- lower than the 10 crore-figure “However, if the hackers in the state and the huge academic manner to cover all chapters of the sities to wear facemasks. Social dis- year UG/PG students as well as PhD, being reported. can find out the Hash algo- loss of students due to the pandemic syllabus irrespective of coverage of tancing should be maintained in class- MPhil and other research scholars. “On August 18, 2020, an rithm used to generate the `830 cr GST situation. Classroom teaching has been some chapters by on-line mode. rooms and, if needed, crowded classes In order to compensate for the lost unauthorised attempt on our card fingerprint, they will evasion detected suspended since March 2020. “Whenever possible, the physical can be divided into batches and teach- days, physical classes should be con- servers was detected and ter- be able to decrypt the “The State Public Universities and classroom teaching shall be recorded and ing hours in a day can be extended, ducted on all days except the exami- minated when in progress. No masked card number. In this government as well as non-govern- shared with absentee students,” the the guideline said.However, teachers, stu- nation period, Sundays, January 26 (the card numbers, financial cre- condition, all 10 crore card- New Delhi: The GST ment degree colleges (coming under H.E. guideline said adding that Covid-19 pre- dents and staff residing in active con- Republic Day), February 16 (the Saraswati dentials or transaction data holders are at risk,” department has unearthed `831 crore tax evasion by an Department) are hereby directed to vention protocols need to be followed. tainment zone shall not come to their Puja) and April 1 (the Utkal Divas). were compromised,” a com- Rajaharia noted. unregistered gutkha or tobacco manufacturing unit in the national capital, AT LORD’S ABODE according to an official China expands power of its military statement. Based on specific inputs, a raid was conducted at the factory in Budh Vihar PRESS TRUST OF INDIA The new law provides December 26 last year. area and large quantity of The revised law came into force gutka and machines worth Beijing, Jan 3: China has revised Xi with the legal grounds after the key conclave of the ruling crores were seized by its National Defence Law, expand- to respond to the CPC in November last year finalised officials.