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 SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 2021, MUMBAI, LATE CITY, 14 PAGES SINCE 1932 `5.00, WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM OXFORD-ASTRAZENECA VACCINE PanelclearsCovishield shot,laststepbefore regulator’sapproval In Srinagar, SEC also considering Bharat Biotech’s UK flights to jeweller killed application forits candidateCovaxin resume Jan 8; weeks after PRABHARAGHAVAN WHATNEXT? just 15 aweek domicile nod, NEWDELHI,JANUARY1 ■DCGI will take final call until Jan 23 AN EXPERTcommittee under on approval, likelyina militants warn the country's topdrug regulator fewdays recommended on Fridaythat ■ States will begin PRANAVMUKUL of more attacks Agroup of protesting farmers at Delhi’s Singhu border,onThursday night. GajendraYadav Covishield, the Indian version of inoculationdry run NEWDELHI,JANUARY1 the Covid-19 vaccine developed today(Jan 2) by the University of Oxfordand ■ Govt will procure FLIGHTSBETWEENIndiaandthe AstraZeneca, should be ap- vaccines from Serum UnitedKingdom,suspendedsince proved with certain conditions, InstituteofIndia December 23 to checktransmis- Coldest night in 15 yrs, Chhattisgarh halts paddy TheIndian Express has learnt. sion of the new, morecontagious The recommendation is ■ 300mnhealthcareand strainof thenovelcoronavirusde- enormouslysignificant, as it frontline workers, those tectedinthatcountry, willresume slogan heat, calls to procurement, says pavesthe wayfor India to getits aged 50 years or older; onJanuary8,thegovernmentsaid Grievingfamilymembers in firstvaccine againstthe novel those under 50 with co- on Fridayevening. morbidities willbe Srinagar. Shuaib Masoodi Centre not lifting stock coronavirus that has killedal- Therewill be only15flights kin keep Singhu warm most1.5 lakh and sickenedmore vaccinated first per week forthe firsttwo weeks, than 1crore Indians. ■ In US and UK, the government said. BASHAARATMASOOD Hundredswalk to thestage, The recommendation of the vaccination started Twenty-nine samples have SRINAGAR,JANUARY1 JIGNASASINHA whichhas been growing steadily GARGIVERMA Subject ExpertCommittee (SEC) almostimmediatelyafter so fartestedpositivefor theUK &AMILBHATNAGAR since the protestbegan more RAJNANDGAON,JANUARY1 Chief hascome twodays afterregula- final approval variant of SARS-CoV-2 in India, FORALMOSTfour decades, NEWDELHI,JANUARY1 than amonth ago, to lightcan- Minister tors in the United Kingdom ap- ■ Aim is to complete first the Union Health Ministrysaid Satpal Nischal had been running dles on itsrailings. Others sit in ANOTICE came up at the gate of Bhupesh proved the use of the Oxford- phase of vaccinations by on Friday. ajewelleryshop in the heartof IT'S 11 pm on December31, the front of it,not ready yettogo apaddy procurement centreon Baghel AstraZeneca vaccine among the August “It has been decidedthat Srinagar.OnThursday evening, mercurycreeping slowlyto- back to their tractortrolleys for ThursdayatSomani, 56 km from Britishpublic.The expertbodyin flightsbetween India&the UK the 70-year-old became the first wards1.1 degrees Celsius, the the night, as policepersonnel Chhattisgarh’s capital Raipur and India wasatthe time considering will resume from 8Jan 2021. person killedinKashmir appar- lowest in the Capital in 15 years. keep awatch. 17 km from district headquarters across the state, whichare cur- an applicationfor clearancefor The SEC had on Wednesday Operations till 23 Jan will be re- entlyfor having obtainedacer- At theSinghu protest site, the Some march with candlesto Rajnandgaon, telling farmers not rentlybursting at the seams. Covishield, whichisbeing tested sought additional information stricted to 15 flightsper week tificateunder the newdomicile farmersare getting ready to ring paytributetoGuru Gobind to come forthe next fewdays as AfteraCabinetmeeting on andmanufacturedunderlicence from the Pune-headquartered eachfor carriers of the two law, that allows people who have in the NewYear with hymns Singh, while backstage,20-30 therewas no space to hold more Wednesday, Chief Minister by Serum InstituteofIndia (SII). CONTINUEDONPAGE2 CONTINUEDONPAGE2 livedinJammu and Kashmir for from the Gurbani, hottea and men and women decoratea dhaan (foodgrains). Similar no- Bhupesh Baghel wroteto morethan 15 years rightstopur- some gusty sloganeering. CONTINUEDONPAGE2 tices came up at severalcentres CONTINUEDONPAGE2 chase immovable property. Justafewweeksafter he had obtainedthe certificate, Nischal wasshotbysuspected militants Festivals, action on evaders: GST 19-year-old womanfound dead at New Year’s at his shop in Saraibala, and was dead by thetime he wasbrought to the nearbyShri MaharajaHari revenue hits record high growth eve party in Mumbai, two friends detained Singh Hospital. The Resistance Front(TRF),arecentlyfloatedmil- the combinedeffect of the rapid tively –inconnection with the foundthat Kukreja, alongwith the stairs,her friends told the itant outfit, took responsibilityfor ENSECONOMICBUREAU ED economic recovery postpan- EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE incident. sevenothers—all collegestu- police. CONTINUEDONPAGE2 NEWDELHI,JANUARY1 Indication demicand the nationwide drive MUMBAI,JANUARY1 An officer said thatthe Khar dents—wereattending the The duo followedKukreja PLAIN E againstGST evaders and fake bills police receivedacall around 2.30 party at afriend’s place. There, and three got intoanargument. ● ofrecovery GOODSAND Services Tax(GST) EX along withmanysystemic THE MUMBAI Police has initi- am aboutawoman’s body being she had caught one of her close “Wesuspectthat at that point, collections in December (for sales changes introducedrecently, ated aprobe intothe alleged found at Bhagwati Heightsin friends in acompromising posi- theygot into ascuffle and the BUSINESSASUSUAL in November) rose 11.6 per cent IN GENERAL, GSTcollec- whichhaveled to improved murder of a19-year-old woman Khar (West). On reaching the tion with another belowawater duo pushedher,following to Rs 1,15,174 crore, the highest tions areanindicatorof compliance”, theMinistrysaid. who wasattending arooftop spot, the police found the body tank on the terrace, and con- which, she fell and hither head BY UNNY year-on-year growth since the in- economic activity. Taxexperts, however, noted party in Khar on the NewYear’s of Jahnvi Kukreja. She was fronted them,said the police on the stairs. Eventually, shesuc- direct taxregime came intoforce Collections had plum- thatfor aclearer pictureofthe eve. rushedtoahospital,whereshe basedonthe statementsofthe cumbed to her injuries,”the offi- in July2017. Higher festivesea- metedtoarecordlow in extent of the economic recovery, The police have detainedtwo wasdeclared brought dead on other attendees. cersaid. son sales on account of Diwali in April, following the lock- thegovernment should provide of her friends –aman and arrival. In afit of rage,Kukreja leftthe The officer addedthat since November,along with the rollout down. However, to gauge abreakup of GSTrevenues col- woman, aged 22 and 19,respec- Preliminaryinvestigation has party andstarted walkingdown CONTINUEDONPAGE2 of newtechnological systemsof the real extent of the recov- lected through filing of returns, e-invoicing,and action against ery, it is important to know and through recovery drives by taxevaders contributed to the howmuchofthe totalGST the authorities. THE CITY surge in GSTrevenues. revenueshavebeen col- “The GSTcollections in The FinanceMinistrysaid this lected through filing of re- December have been higher SECONDWORSTAQI has been the highestgrowth in turns, and howmuch thanexpected.The collections monthlyrevenuesinthe last21 through recovery drives. aresignificantlyhigher as SINCE2016 PAGE 3 months. “This has been due to CONTINUEDONPAGE2 All should get free access to science journals, IIM-Awill not rebuildstudent public research data: new draft S&T policy dorms designedbyLouis Kahn bulk subscriptions of all impor- vidual researchers.The world's cluding architects, designers, AMITABHSINHA tant scientific journals across the best scientificjournalsare ex- RITUSHARMA historians, alumni and Kahn's &ESHAROY world, and provide everyone in pensive,and sometimes even AHMEDABAD,JANUARY1 children, to theplan in the past PUNE,NEWDELHI,JANUARY1 India free access to them. one article can costseveral tens twoweeks. 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