DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD,CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA,LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA ● REG.NO. MCS/067/2018-20RNI REGN. NO. 1543/57 JOURNALISM OF COURAGE TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 2021, MUMBAI, LATE CITY, 14 PAGES SINCE 1932 `5.00, WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM NEGOTIATIONS TO RESUME ON JANUARY 8 Covaxin to protect Talksinconclusive:Farmersinsiston against mutants, repeal,Govtforclause-wisediscussion data in aweek: Tomar says BharatBiotech hopeful, 2Punjab PRABHARAGHAVAN ED BJPleaders to NEWDELHI,JANUARY4 Extrashot meetPMtoday PLAIN E ● inarsenal BUSINESSASUSUAL THE HEAD of Bharat Biotech ex- EX pressedconfidence at apress BY UNNY RAAKHIJAGGA& conference on Mondaythat AMID CONCERNS that HARIKISHANSHARMA Covaxin, the vaccine candidate Covaxin had been given LUDHIANA,NEWDELHI,JAN4 developedbythe company, will emergency use authori- be effective on mutant strains of sation without full data, TALKSBETWEEN the Centre the novelcoronavirus —amajor Health MinisterDrHarsh and farmer unions opposedto reason whythe candidatehas Vardhan has clarified the newagriculture laws re- been granted approval forre- that this wasa“strategic mainedinconclusive Monday stricted use. decision”. “...Thisap- over twokey demands —repeal The companywill be able to proval ensures India has of the newlyenacted laws and establishthe “hypothesis” of the an additional vaccine provision of legal guarantee on candidate's ability to protect shieldinits arsenal esp the minimum supportprice — againstmutations in aweek, againstpotential mutant with the twosides drawingthe chairmanand managing direc- strains in adynamic pan- hardlineontheir respectivepo- Women being trainedtodrive tractors, on the Jind-Patiala national highway on Monday. Express torDrKrishna Ella said. demic situation -A sitions. “It’s onlyahypothesis right strategic decision forour BMC to start The talkswill resume on now...but justgivemeone vaccine security,”he January8when the twosides sit week’stime (and) I’ll give confir- postedonTwitter. issuing tax across the table forwhat will be matorydata,” Dr Ella said. He the eight round of negotiations After Adanis, RIL seeks to ‘Daughters of farmers’ on wasresponding to aquestionon bills for homes ever since the protests that whether thereweredatato vaccine uses an inactivatedplat- brought farmers from Punjab placate farmers: ‘with you’ tractors headed for Delhi showCovaxin is effective against form –itwas developedbyus- and Haryana to the gatesofDelhi the mutant strain of the SARS- ing killedstrains of the SARS- up to 500 sq ft on November 26. anyagriculturalland,directlyor Haryana, farm unions don't just CoV-2 virus that wasfirstde- CoV-2 virus. Meanwhile, twoPunjabBJP AASHISHARYAN indirectly, in Punjab/Haryana or SUKHBIRSIWACH hope to attract eyeballs but also tected in the United Kingdom Bharat Biotech,whichhas leaders, SurjeetKumar Jyani and NEWDELHI,JANUARY4 anywhereelseinIndia, forthe CHANDIGARH,JANUARY4 send amessagethat their fami- and has since been found in sent around 5million doses of its SANJANABHALERAO HarjeetSingh Grewal, who have purpose of ‘corporate’ or ‘con- liesstand behindtheminthe ag- morethan 30 other countries. candidatefor quality checksand MUMBAI,JANUARY4 been in mediation with the TARGETED BY farmers opposed tract’ farming.Wehaveab- AS FARMERS threaten a“tractor itation. Evidence from vaccines for clearances at the CentralDrugs farmers, will be meeting the to the newagriculturelaws, solutelynoplanstodoso,”RIL parade” to NewDelhi on the oc- At the Khatkar Toll Plaza -- other viruses likerabiessupport Laboratory in Kasauli, hopes to FOUR YEARS afterthe ShivSena Prime MinisterTuesday evening. Mukesh Ambani-ledReliance said in astatement. casion of Republic Dayiftheir the farmers have made all such the hypothesis, Dr Ella said —be- be able to roll out the vaccine for promisedexemption of property Jyani said: “Grewal and Ihad Industries Limited (RIL) said RILand the Gautam Adani- demands againstthe newagri- tolls across Haryana “free” -- the cause of the platform it uses, use among the public as soon as taxfor residential properties sought time from the PM. He has Monday that the company ledAdani Group have been sin- cultural laws arenot met, join- women aretrainedineverything Covaxin would be highlyeffec- possible. It has stockpiledaround measuring up to 500sqftin calledustohis campoffice at would always support the de- gled outbyfarmers protesting ing them would be women from from howtostart atractor and tive against suchmutations. The CONTINUEDONPAGE2 Mumbai, BMC will, starting this 5.45 pm Tuesday.”Jyani is chair- mand of the farmers for“fair and the farm laws.Farmerunions Haryana villages. switchitoff,beforebeing week,start issuing taxbills to man of an eight-member panel profitable price on apredictable have calledfor aboycott of the At severalplaces across the handed thesteering. suchproperties exempting only of BJP leaders, including Grewal, basis” fortheir produce, and that twocompanies, alleging that state, women arereceiving train- Sikkim Nain, from SafaKheri the "general tax" component of coordinating with the farmer the companyhad no plans to en- theyare likelytobenefit from the ing to drive tractors, with one village, said around hundredof 38 UK variant cases the tax. unions.InDelhi since November tercorporateorcontract farm- newlaws. suchsession held forthose be- them from the district have been In 2019,the stategovern- 28, theyreturnedtoPunjab afew ing,now or in the future. Lastmonth, the Adani Group longing to Jind district, at attendingthe training sessions ment cleared aBilltoexempt days ago. RIL also said it had, through had also issued astatement,say- Khatkar Toll Plaza on Jind-Patiala at the toll plaza, with similar now; strain isolated, propertytax of residential prop- Emergingfromthe meeting itssubsidiaryReliance Jio ing the companywas onlyin- National Highway,onMonday. preparations on across the state. erties measuring up to 500sqft with the unions Monday, Union Infocomm, mentionedapetition volved in the businessofstorage Women have been present in “This is justatrailer forthe gov- in Mumbai, but the components AgricultureMinisterNarendra before the Punjab and Haryana of grains and did notinany way largenumbersatthe protests be- ernment. We will take our trac- NIV to test vaccines of the taxthat would be waived Singh Tomar told reporters, “We High Court, in whichithad involveitself in pricingofgrains. ing held by farmers at Delhi bor- tors to the RedForttoparticipate had remainedundecided.In wanted aclause-wise discussion sought urgent governmentin- “The companyhas no role in ders, nowintotheir second in the tractor parade. It will be a Januarylastyear,BMC did notis- on the laws,sothat we could tervention to stop vandalism of deciding the volume of storage month. By having women ride historicalevent,” said Nain, 38. EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE sue taxbills to residential prop- proceedonthe wayforward.The itstowers. as well as pricing of grains as it is intothe Capital on January26 “Women powerhas joined NEWDELHI,JANUARY4 erties measuring up to 500sqft discussion wasmainlycentred “Neither Reliance nor anyof onlyaservice/infrastructure now, while riding tractors, astar- the battlefield now. We arenot in the city,given the lackofclar- CONTINUEDONPAGE2 our subsidiaries has purchased CONTINUEDONPAGE2 tling changefor patriarchal CONTINUEDONPAGE2 THE NUMBER of samples de- ity. tected with the the new, more CONTINUEDONPAGE2 contagious strain of the novel coronavirus—the UK “variant under investigation” VUI- GSTTAX CREDIT PROBE 202012/01—isnow 38, the gov- BMCplans dry ernment said on Monday. I-T conducts surveysatZee and L&T offices “All thesepersons (detected Prof Andrew Pollard,director with the UK strain of the virus) of the OxfordVaccine Group, run, token system found that both Zee and L&T have underSection 133A of the DGGI has arrested over 141peo- have been kept in single room gets theAstraZeneca vaccine KHUSHBOONARAYAN availedbogus input taxcredit un- Income TaxAct. Some surveys ple across the country and isolationindesignated Health in Oxford, UK, Monday. Reuters &AANCHALMAGAZINE der GST. The DGGI is investigat- were also conducted at theiras- booked 3,479 entities in 1,161 Carefacilities by respective State MUMBAI,NEWDELHI, ing the records of these firms for sociateoffices in afew other cities cases forillegallyavailing or Governments. Theirclose con- for vaccination JANUARY4 the lastfivefinancialyears. “The acrossthe country, said sources. passing on input taxcredit, caus- tactshavealsobeen put under others. Genome sequencing on information gathered by the “Officials from the taxde- ing loss to the exchequer of Rs quarantine. Comprehensive con- other specimens is going on,” the THE INCOME Tax(I-T) DGGI wassent to the Income Tax partment visited theoffices of 13,447.95 crore. tact tracing has been initiated for UnionHealth Ministrysaid in a 2,000 people will be vaccinated Department Mondayconducted Department even as the GST the companywith certain At theend of trading on co-travellers, familycontactsand CONTINUEDONPAGE2 TABASSUM per dayat10vaccination booths. surveysatthe offices of Zee probeisstill on so thatitcould queries. The officials concerned Monday, shares of Zee Enter- BARNAGARWALA At four other centres in Rajawadi, Entertainment Enterprises Ltd take timely action,” sourcesfamil- of the companyare providing all tainmenthadfallen2.58per cent MUMBAI,JANUARY4 VN Desai, Kandivali Shatabdi and and Larsen &Toubro(L&T)Ltd as iar with the development said. the required information and ex- to close at Rs 219.15