y k y cm PAIN BEHIND SCENES MORE GRAVES BELGIUM FACE ITALY Indian-American actress Padma Lakshmi has Remains of 182 people found in an indigenous Belgium meet Italy for a place in Euro 2020 shared the true story of struggle behind residential school in Canada’s British semifinals while the Netherlands face Switzerland in quarters an old stunning photo shoot LEISURE | P2 Columbia province INTERNATIONAL | P10 SPORTS | P12 VOLUME 11, ISSUE 92 | www.orissapost.com BHUBANESWAR | FRIDAY, JULY 2 | 2021 12 PAGES | `5.00 IRREGULAR by MANJUL VOICING THEIR GRIEVANCE NO RELIEF FOR CONSUMERS Milk prices have gone LPG cylinder rates up, ma’am. See, even water is costly these days! increased by `25 AGENCIES NAXALITE KILLED New Delhi, July 1: The government has hiked the RAIPUR: A Naxalite was killed price of non-subsidised LPG Thursday in a gun battle with secu- cylinders by `25 with effect rity forces at a forest near Elanganar from Thursday. A domestic village under Darbha police station lim- gas cylinder weighing 14.2kg its in Chhattisgarh’s insurgency-hit Doctors and nurses protest against the sixth Pay Commission’s recommendation to delink NPA from basic salary on National Doctors Day in Patiala PTI PHOTO will now cost `834.50 after the Bastar district, police said Thursday. hike while the one weighing The encounter took place late 19kg will approximately be Wednesday night when a team of the priced at `1,550. With petrol District Reserve Guard (DRG) was and diesel prices already out on an anti-Naxal operation, IGP creating a huge dent in pock- (Bastar range) Sundarraj P stated. ets, this hike will certainly PRICE IN CITY (JULY 1) The deceased has been identified as increase the woes of the LPG (14.2 kg) Madvi Joga and he was carrying a common man. `861.00 (+`25.50) reward of `3,00,000 lakh on his head. 9 nations clear Covishield The price of a 14.2kg cylin- der will be `834.50 in Delhi, LPG (19 kg) ` ` INDIANS VACCINATED WITH SII JAB FREE TO TRAVEL TO THESE COUNTRIES Mumbai and Kolkata. In 1655.00 (+ 84.00) Chennai however, the price GOGOI RELEASED AGENCIES In a separate development, the of the same product will be vides subsidies to a select World Health Organisation (WHO) `850.50. group of consumers. GUWAHATI: Assam legislator Akhil New Delhi, July 1: A total of nine BB HOPEFUL OF QUICK APPROVAL said Thursday that any Covid-19 vac- LPG prices are usually In February this year the Gogoi walked free Thursday after countries have cleared Serum Institute NEW DELHI: Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech (BB) is expecting approval for Covaxin cines it has authorised for emergency revised at the beginning of rates of LPG cylinders were more than 18 months in jail as a spe- of India’s (SII) Covishield vaccine soon from the (WHO) as the entire process is not likely to take much time since other use should be recognised by all coun- every month. With the lat- revised three times. It was cial NIA court cleared him of all amid a row over vaccines accepted vaccines of the company in the past have already been approved by the world body, it’s tries as they open up their borders to est hike announced increased by `25 February charges under UAPA for his alleged for a ‘green passport’ allowing free co-founder Suchitra Ella said. “We are working closely with the WHO for the inclusion of inoculated travellers. Thursday, the price of an 24. The price was again hiked role in the violent anti-CAA stir in the travel in the region. They are Austria, Covaxin in its Emergency Use Listing. Approval from WHO is not expected to be a long- In addition to the vaccines men- LPG cylinder has gone up by February 15 by `50 per cylin- drawn process as the majority of our facilities have already been audited and approved state in December 2019. Gogoi is an Germany, Slovenia, Greece, Iceland, tioned above, the WHO has also given `140 in the last six months. der and it was again raised by by WHO for our other vaccines in the past,” she tweeted Thursday Independent MLA from Sivasagar Ireland, Spain, Estonia and Switzerland. green light to the two Chinese jabs, This is certainly not helping `25, 10 days later. constituency. He walked out of the The European Medicines Agency Biotech’s Covaxin. Sources in the Foreign Ministry made by ‘Sinovac’ and ‘Sinopharm’. the populace during the Since May 1, petrol and Gauhati Medical College and Hospital (EMA), the EU’s top medical body, The EU does, however, also say had said Wednesday that India will “Any measure that only allows Covid-19 pandemic. The diesel prices have increased where he was undergoing treatment has approved only four vaccines so far ‘member states may decide to extend begin a reciprocal policy when it people protected by a subset of WHO- price of LPG cylinders was sharply. Petrol prices have for various ailments. “Truth has finally – Pfizer-BioNTech’s ‘Comirnaty’, US this (the certificate) also to EU trav- comes to exemption from quaran- approved vaccines to benefit from the last increased in May and gone up by `8.41 per litre prevailed, though no efforts were pharma giant Moderna’s Covid vac- ellers that received another vaccine’. tine. This would mean that unless reopening of travel...Would effec- had remained unchanged while diesel prices have in- spared to keep me behind the bars,” cine, the AstraZeneca shot manufac- Under these rules, Indians – vac- the EU accepts those vaccinated with tively create a two-tier system, fur- in June. The price hike of creased by `8.45/litre. the Raijor Dal chief told reporters tured and sold in Europe as cinated with Covishield or Covaxin – Covishield and Covaxin, people from ther widening the global vaccine di- LPG comes along with the During the last 60 days, fuel after his release. ‘Vaxzervria’, and Johnson & Johnson’s may be subject to quarantine if they EU will also face mandatory quar- vide and exacerbating the inequities steep hike in petrol and rates have been revised up- ‘Janssen’. Only those who have been travel to the EU nations, unless these antine upon arrival in India. we have already seen in the distri- diesel prices. Unlike petrol, wards on 32 occasions. given these shots are granted vacci- vaccines are cleared by the respec- Serum Institute’s CEO Adar bution of Covid-19,” a WHO statement LPG is available only at the According to state-run oil MARKET WATCH nation passports and allowed to travel tive countries. Now however the sit- Poonawalla had said Wednesday that said. “It would negatively impact market price across India, companies chances of a hassle-free amid the pandemic. uation is set to change with seven EU the company is hoping the European the growth of economies that are though the government pro- respite appear slim. Covishield, manufactured by SII and two other nations clearing pas- drug regulators will approve already suffering the most,” the INDEX VARIATION is not on the EMA list and so is Bharat sengers travelling to those countries. Covishield in a few weeks. WHO added. SENSEX 52318.60 164.11 Vax drive stutters BOURSES NIFTY 15680.00 41.50 ZYDUS SEEKS DOLLAR 74.74 `0.21 Offline HSC exams from July 30 DCGI CONSENT as stocks dry up `0.32 EURO 88.47 POST NEWS NETWORK www.bseodisha.ac.in website from July CURRENCY TIMETABLE 5 to July 14. INDO-ASIAN NEWS SERVICE GOLD `47,171 `332 Bhubaneswar, July 1: The Board JULY 30: First language ( Odia, Earlier, a day after Class X students POST NEWS NETWORK SILVER `68,912 `777 of Secondary Education (BSE) an- Bengali, Hindi, Urdu, Telugu and and their parents staged protests al- New Delhi, July 1: Zydus Cadila Pregnant women BULLION nounced Thursday the dates of phys- Alternative English) leging discrepancies in evaluation of announced Thursday that the com- Bhubaneswar, July 1: The to get jab soon ical matriculation examinations for JULY 31: Second language (English High School Certificate (HSC) exami- pany has applied for emergency use Odisha government halted dissatisfied students. The offline ex- or Hindi) nation marks, the BSE had said offline authorisation to the DCGI for ZyCoV- Thursday vaccination drive BHUBANESWAR: Days after WEATHER aminations will be held July 30 to AUGUST 2: Mathematics exams will be held in July. D – its needle-free plasmid DNA vac- in 16 districts due to ‘short- the (ICMR) approved use of AUGUST 3: Science papers BHUB CTK August 5. Filling up of forms will BSE president Ramashis Hazra de- cine against Covid-19. ZyCoV-D is a age’ of Covishield doses, Covid-19 vaccine for preg- start July 5 and will end July 14. The AUGUST 4: Social Science fended the assessment marking sys- three-dose, intradermal vaccine and even as new Covid-19 cases nant women in India, the MAX 36.0° 36.2° exams will be conducted from 10am AUGUST 5: Third language subjects tem. “The assessment was done on the as it is needle-free, it reduces the and fatalities continued to Odisha government Thursday to 12 noon. Assessment results of the X exams were cancelled due to the Covid- basis of analysis for four years. Following chances of any kind of side effects. rise in the state. The inocu- said that the vaccination for TEMP MIN 26.2° 25.0° Forecast matric exams were declared June 25. 19 situation in Odisha. this, the marking was done in a graded Interim analysis has shown the lation exercise was tem- this segment would start Humidity 76% 73% The physical exams will be conducted Students appearing in the exams will manner.