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eyeeye THE SUNDAY EXPRESS MAGAZINE AWRITER’S AHMEDABAD,LATECITY REVOLT DECEMBER6,2020 Acampaign of hate brought 14PAGES,`5.00 Perumal Murugan, SHareesh to mainstream attention DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM PAGES 11, 12, 13 Govt seeks OFFER TO AMEND LAWS TURNED DOWN Cleared in UK, Pfizer foot in to first in India to apply make IIMs Farmershardenstance,Govtweighs more easily for emergency use options,Housesessionnotruledout an application on December 4to PAYALBANERJEE the DCGI seeking emergency use fall in line NEWDELHI,DECEMBER5 authorisation (EUA) forits Covid- As unions insist 19 vaccine," asource said. "The Education Ministry PFIZER INDIA has become the firm has submitted the EUAap- on repeal of laws, seekspowers to firstpharmaceutical firm to seek plication in Form CT-18for grant Govt says will from the Drugs Controller of permission to importand checkBoardonIIM General of India (DCGI) emer- market Pfizer-BioNTech's Covid- getbackwith gency use authorisation forits 19 mRNAvaccine BNT162b2 in Act‘violations’ Covid-19vaccine in the country, the country,"the source said, cit- proposal on Dec 9 afterits parent companysecured ing the application. suchclearance in the UK and VKPaul, who chairs the RITIKACHOPRA Bahrain. high-levelNational Expert NEWDELHI,DECEMBER5 HARIKISHANSHARMA In itsapplication to the drug Group on Vaccine &LIZMATHEW regulator,Pfizer has sought per- Administration, had earlier IN WHATmarksasignificant re- NEWDELHI,DECEMBER5 mission to importthe vaccine for spelledout India’s strategy with versal of itsearlier stance, the sale and distribution in the coun- respect to candidates likePfizer Government is exploring op- THE CENTRAL government try, besides waiver of clinical tri- and Moderna whichhaveshown tions that could, in effect, erode found itself hemmedinon als on Indian population in ac- positive resultsinPhase III the autonomyofthe Indian Saturdaywith farmer unions cordance with the special abroad but arenot being tested Institutes of Management (IIMs). once again taking amaximalist provisions under the NewDrugs here. “Weknowthat doses of Almostthreeyearsaftergrant- position demanding arepeal of and Clinical Trials Rules, 2019,of- this vaccine (Pfizer) will notbe ing autonomytothe 20 premier all three farm laws. ficial sources said. available in hugequantities... If businessschoolsundertheIIMAct, To resolve the stand-off, an "Pfizer India has submitted CONTINUEDONPAGE2 theMinistryofEducation(MoE)is option to convene aspecial consideringaproposalempower- Parliament session is being con- ing the Government to initiatean sidered,asenior government Representativesoffarmer unions brought their ownfood forthe meeting at Vigyan Bhawan, in NewDelhi on Saturday. ANI inquiryagainstthe Boardof source told The Indian Express.“It SUNDAY STORY Governors (BoG) of an instituteif is notruledout, but no decision it’s ostensiblyfound to be acting, has been taken,” the source said whattheGovernmentthinks,isin to aquestion if aspecial session ROLLING OUT contravention of the Act. wasbeing considered. GOVTINABIND No politics, only farm issues: Ateam THE VACCINE The MoE recentlyshared a On Thursday, Leader of ■With so manyvoices Backend preparations draftexecutive order with the Opposition forCongress in the from 40 farmer union monitors the stage, decides speakers forthe mammoth exercise LawMinistrytothis effect and Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan representatives, the of inoculating lakhs has sought ameeting to discuss Chowdhurywrote to Speaker Om government finds itself in the same, The SundayExpress has Birla requesting ashortwinter abind. It argues that it has AMILBHATNAGAR PAGE 8 learned. If okayedbythe Law session of Parliament to address made keyconcessions, NEWDELHI,DECEMBER5 Ministry, the order will be issued “veryimportant issues” including from parity between under Section 38 of the IIM Act. the “ongoing farmers agitation”. mandis and private MORE THAN 500people sit Section 38 states, “If anydiffi- But sources in the Speaker's office markets, setting up a cross-legged listening to Covaxin volunteer Vij culty arises in giving effect to the said the government had notyet registration system for speeches blaring out of two provisions of this Act, the Central discussedsuchapossibility. traders and giving loudspeakers fixedatopatrac- Government may, by order pub- On Saturday, talksbetween assurances on MSP but tor, as farm leaders address them tests positive, govt says lishedinthe Official Gazette, thegovernment andrepresen- farmers areinsistent on a from the main stageatSinghu on makesuchprovisions notincon- tativesoffarmer unions repeal. With little elbow the Delhi-Haryana border —the sistent with the provisions of this CONTINUEDONPAGE2 Diljit Dosanjh at the protestatSinghu border on Saturday. ANI room politically, itsally focal point of their agitation. was yet to get full dose Act, as mayappear to it to benec- gone and the Opposition Their stand resoluteagainstthe essaryorexpedient forremoving lending itsweight to the farm laws,and conscious of at- the difficulty.” The MoE onlyhas JAISHANKAR TO SKIP tempts to paint their agitation as makes it to the stage, the vetting teers. Details of the speakers are CANADA MEETING protests,any resolution athree-year windowact under seems achallenge. dictated by vested interests,the handedovertoamanagement carefullymaintained, and chits EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE this Section. That windowexpires MORE REPORTS, PAGE 5 protesters arecareful of who committee, including volun- CONTINUEDONPAGE2 CHANDIGARH,NEWDELHI, on January31, 2021. DECEMBER5 CONTINUEDONPAGE2 TWOWEEKSafter taking the firstdose as partofthe trials for GUJARAT UNIVERSITY Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin vac- PM to lay foundation stone for new cine, Haryana Health Minister Law graduate seeks Anil Vij, 67,announcedon Saturdaythat he washospi- talisedafter testing positive for Anil Vijinhospital after info under RTI, varsity Parliament building on December 10 the coronavirus. testing positive on Saturday Vijwas the firstvolunteer for the Covaxin Phase III human tri- seeks citizenship proof LIZMATHEW als in Haryana, as partofwhich NEWDELHI,DECEMBER5 around 600people in the state Two-dose givesright to citizens of India to and over 25,000 across the vaccine RITUSHARMA seek information. It is requested PRIME MINISTER Narendra countryare enrolled—half of E ● candidate AHMEDABAD,DECEMBER5 that youprove that youare an Modi will laythe foundation them receiving aplacebo as part EXPLAINED Indian citizen. Aftergetting proof stone forthe newParliament of the "doubleblind" study.The THE GUJARATUniversity has of your Indian citizenship, the building on December 10,and Union Health Ministryaswell COVAXIN IS meant to be askedalaw graduatefromone of process forgiving information the ceremonywill be attended as officials conducting the trials takenovertwo doses, and itsaffiliated colleges in will be considered.” by leaders and representatives in the statesaid Vij's infection on November 20, Anil Vijre- Gandhinagar,who had sought Himanshu Pandya, the Vice- of all parties who will be present could notbeattributed to the ceivedthe firstshot(with a information under Right to Chancellor of Gujarat University physicallyorvia virtual mode. vaccine, as even if he was 50% chance of it having Information (RTI) Act, to provide (GU), told The SundayExpress, “As Making this announcement among the volunteers who got been aplacebo). Both the proof that she wasanIndian cit- this matter is limited to the PIO, at apress conference Saturday, Amodel of the newParliament building whichisestimated to costRs971 crore. PTI the vaccine, it wasonlythe first government and Bharat izen. and Ihavenot seen the applica- Speaker Om Birla said: “We of twodoses, and sufficient an- Biotech said antibodies The applicant, Tanaz Nagori, tion and itsresponse, Icannot startedthe journeyofindepend- tibodies onlydevelop afterthe were meant to develop only who is agraduatefromSiddharth comment. But it is certain that ent India in the old building, and building… It will notbeabuild- The building, he said, will re- terms of architecture, modernity second. twoweeksafter the second LawCollege in Gandhinagar’s we do notpractise likethis (this is when we complete 75 years, we ing of bricksand stones, it will be flect the country's diversity and and safety. Adiabetic, Vijrecentlyunder- dose, with the whole Sector 16,had sought photo- notcommon practice).” will have the session of both the fulfilment of the dreams of richart culture, and will be the “The present Parliament went asurgeryafterfracturing his process spread over 42 days. copies of marksheets forthe in- The applicant told The Sunday Houses in the newParliament 130crore people.” best Parliament building in CONTINUEDONPAGE2 CONTINUEDONPAGE2 ternal assessmentsofLLB sixth Express that suspecting discrep- semesteronOctober 19 from the ancies in the internal assessment university under RTI. marks,she had filedthe RTIap- In response to her applica- plication seeking details first tion, the Public Information from her college. Afterreceiving Officer (PIO) of the university’s an “unsatisfactory” response examination branchonfrom the college, she filedasim- December 3stated, “The infor- ilar application with the Gujarat mation sought under the Right to University. Information Act, 2005, Section 6 CONTINUEDONPAGE2 Gujarat HC judge dies while undergoing Covid-19 treatment EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE Justice AHMEDABAD,DECEMBER5 Ghanshyam Udhwani ASITTINGjudgeofGujarat High was59