LUCKNOW l THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2020 l Pages 12 l 3.00 RNI NO. UPENG/2020/04393 l Vol 1 l Issue No.35 COVAXIN CORONA VACCINE PRODUCES ROBUST KERALA’S RULING LEFT DEMOCRATIC IMMUNE RESPONSE WITH NO SERIOUS ADVERSE FRONT (LDF) SCORES BIG WIN IN LOCAL EVENTS DURING PHASE 1 TRIAL RESULTS POLLS BEFORE STATE ELECTIONS OUR EDITIONS: JAIPUR, AHMEDABAD & LUCKNOW 10°C - 23°C www.firstindia.co.in | www.firstindia.co.in/epaper/ I twitter.com/thefirstindia I facebook.com/thefirstindia | instagram.com/thefirstindia 8 KILLED, 21 INJURED AS TANKER CUTS BUS INTO HALF Sambhal (UP): Eight in the Dhanari police radabad IG Ramit Shar- people died, while 21 station area, they added. ma said. more sustained inju- “Eight people have Earlier, SP Chakresh ries on Wednesday died in the accident in- Mishra said that the morning when an Uttar volving a bus of UP head-on collision took Pradesh Roadways bus Roadways and a gas place on the Agra-Mo- collided with a gas tanker. All the injured radabad road. tanker head-on amid have been hospitalised. Chief Minister Yogi reduced visibility due The number of injured Adityanath directed to fog, police said. persons is 21. The bod- the district officials to The impact was so se- ies of the deceased have supervise the rescue vere that the tanker cut been sent for post-mor- and relief operations. the bus into half lead- tem examination. Traf- Prime Minister The mangled remains of the vehicles ing to several people be- fic has been diverted Narendra Modi ex- after the collision in Sambhal on ing killed on the stop. since there is still some pressed grief over the Wednesday. —PHOTO BY ANI The crash took place gas in the tanker,” Mo- incident. —PTI TMC’s Adhikari resigns as MLA; ‘YOUR TALKS HAVE FAILED’ may join BJP during Shah’s visit Kolkata: Disgruntled gal transport minister Trinamool Congress and from other posts SC says govt talks have not worked, proposes leader Suvendu Adhi- and has been distancing kari resigned from the himself from the party membership of the West for several months now. formation of committee to resolve deadlock Bengal Legislative As- The party had then sembly on Wednesday rushed poll strategist The Apex Court amid indications that he Prashant Kishor and said the proposed Sikh Cleric would join the BJP dur- senior leader Sougata ing Home Minister Amit Roy to placate him but committee would shoots self Shah’s visit to the state the negotiation failed. comprise of several to death at on December 19-20. “As of now it is ex- representatives Adhikari, who was MLA pected that Adhikari from Nandigram, sub- will join the BJP at the from government protest site mitted his handwritten People coming from (East Midnapore) rally,” and farmer unions resignation to Speaker other states can’t be said a BJP source. How- across the country of the Assembly Biman treated as outsiders ever, sources also said Banerjee. —Suvendu Adhikari, that Adhikari had ear- Mohd Fahad Adhikari has already TMC leader lier gone back on two resigned as West Ben- dates of Turn to P6 New Delhi: Noting that the Centre’s negotia- tions with farmers pro- Cabinet nod to testing against the agri- Baba Ram Singh Waste of time: Rahul walks cultural reform laws tel spectrum, have not yielded any New Delhi: A priest out of Defence panel meet results, the Supreme from Haryana, Baba sugar export Court on Wednesday Ram Singh, who had New Delhi: Congress said it could form a joined the farmers’ leader Rahul Gandhi subsidy committee to work out a Dressed in their tradition attire and arms, Nihang Sikhs on horsebacks taking part in the farmers protest, committed and other members of New Delhi: The Union solution between the protest, in New Delhi on Wednesday. —PHOTO BY PTI suicide by shooting his party on Wednesday Cabinet headed by Prime self on Wednesday two sides. The ongoing walked out of a meeting Minister Narendra Modi at the Delhi border, protests, which is now of the Parliamentary on Wednesday approved where he had been in its third week, have CENTRE’S PLEA FARMERS REJECT GOVT’S Committee on Defence, the next round of the tel- staying. In a note, seen thousands of farm- Hearing a batch of alleging that the panel’s ecom spectrum auction, DECEMBER 9 OFFER he said he was ers, primarily from petitions seeking time was being wasted in I&B Minister Prakash On Wednesday, the farmer unions sent a written sacrificing his life Punjab and Haryana, removal of farmers discussing armed forces’ Javadekar informed in a reply to the government, rejecting its December “to express anger protesting near Delhi gathering at the capi- 9 proposal in which it offered significant and pain against uniform instead of the press briefing adding borders as they pose tal’s doorstep. concessions. An Agriculture Ministry official said the government’s crucial issue of national Army, Navy and the Air that the cabinet has ap- hindrance to medical Hearing a batch of pe- that the government received a written response injustice”. “Have seen security, sources said. Force was being dis- proved relief for sugar- services, a bench of titions seeking removal from the farmer unions. pain of farmers fight- Gandhi was not al- cussed in the presence of cane farmers and im- Chief Justice of India S of farmers protesting ing to ensure their lowed to speak at the the Chief of Defence provement in electricity A Bobde and Justices near Delhi borders, a rights and struggling meeting by the panel Staff Gen Bipin Rawat infrastructure in the A S Bopanna and V bench of Chief Justice Your negotiations with pro- on roads... feeling chairman Jual Oram when Gandhi intervened northeastern states. Ramasubramanian of India S A Bobde and testing farmers have not a lot of pain as the (BJP) when he sought to to say that instead of dis- Spectrum in 700 MHz, issued a notice Justices A S Bopanna worked apparently till now. government is not raise the issues of Chi- cussing this, the political 800 MHz, 900 MHz, 1800 to the Centre and V Ramasubrama- doing justice... to do nese aggression and leadership should dis- MHz, 2100 MHz, 2300 and posted The protesting farmer unions nian issued a notice to injustice is a sin and better equipping the cuss the issues of nation- MHz and 2500 MHz fre- the matter for should be made a party to the the Centre and posted to tolerate it is also a soldiers at the border in al security and how to quency bands would be hearing on case —Supreme Court Bench the matter for hearing sin,” the note left by Ladakh, they said. strengthen the forces auctioned for a validity Thursday. on Thursday. the 65-year-old read. The sources said the who are fighting the Chi- period of 20 years. Turn to P6 issue of uniforms of the nese in Ladakh. Turn to P6 Turn to P6 SANT(A) YOGI: IN PRAYAGRAJ, CM OFFERS OUTREACH TO SMALLER PARTIES... FLURRY OF GIFTS BEFORE CHRISTMAS Owaisi’s Bihar formula may Yogi announces affordable houses for not work in UP as BSP opts out BULLDOZING M Tariq Khan lawyers, teachers and journalists, will build a MAFIAs National Law University in Prayagraj The CM said that Lucknow: Fresh from before his govern- its successful foray in Vishal Srivastav Addressing as Chief ment, the mafias ruled Bihar, the All India Ma- Guest at Lawyers Meet the roost but now their jlis-e-Ittehadul Musli- Prayagraj: Just ahead in Prayagraj, he said that illegal properties are meen (AIMIM) has de- of December 25, Uttar while the houses for the being bulldozed. He cided to test its luck Pradesh Chief Minister poor will be built on the added that the govern- with smaller parties in Yogi Adtiyanath opened land which got freed ment will build afford- UP elections 2022. But his goodie bag and gave from mafia, the afforda- able houses on the with BSP, one of its ma- away a slew of gifts to ble houses on a no-profit, land freed from their jor ally in Bihar, refus- Asaduddin Owaisi Mayawati poor, farmers, youths, no-loss basis will be con- illegal possession. ing to be part of the coa- lawyers, teachers and structed for lawyers, CM Yogi Adityanath in Prayagraj on Wednesday. He was He has directed the lition, the battle for the the AIMIM’s incursion debut in UP political journalists while as- teachers and journalists. accompanied by Dy. CM Keshav Prasad Maurya. —PHOTO BY ANI Gorakhpur Develop- ballot promises to be a into West Bengal would arena. The AIMIM has serting that the dis- The CM assured to ment Authority in this multi-cornered, colour- be closely watched and decided to jointly fight crimination on any consider hospital facili- build National Law Uni- lawyers community to regard and now he has ful contest as political its electoral perfor- on 25 per cent of the 403 count does not exist in ties in the High Court versity in Prayagraj. ensure the justice asked Turn to P6 mercury heats up. mance there would have assembly constituencies his government. while announcing to He called upon the reaches Turn to P6 Before UP however, big impact on its formal in the State. Turn to P6 UTTAR PRADESH www.fi rstindia.co.in I www.fi rstindia.co.in/epaper/ I twitter.com/thefi rstindia I facebook.com/thefi rstindia I instagram.com/thefi rstindia LUCKNOW | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2020 02 YOGI GOVT MOTIVATES TRADITIONAL SMALL SCALE INDUSTRIES TO BOOST ECONOMY First India Bureau our total export.