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60 ENVOYS TO VISIT FIRMS IN HYDERABAD DEVELOPING VAX OUR EDITIONS: JAIPUR, AHMEDABAD & LUCKNOW
New Delhi: More than 60 foreign heads of missions will on Wednesday visit leading biotech companies in Hyderabad - Bharat Biotech and Biological E - which are developing vaccines against the novel coronavirus, sources said.
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They said that this is the first such visit and it will be followed by visits to facilities in other cities. Meanwhile as per health ministry estimates, 300 mn people may get vaccinated simultaneously as per availability of doses.
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GOVT NOT READY FOR ROLLBACK, SAY FARMERS SHAH’S MEETING WITH FARMER LEADERS ENDS WITH NO SOFTENING OF STAND Aditi Nagar New Delhi: Home Minister Amit Shah met with farmers on Tuesday at 8 pm, raising hopes for a resolution a day before the government’s sixth round of negotiations to end massive protests against farm laws. The meet which began after 8 pm was held at the office of Indian Council of Agricultural Research. As many as 13 farmer leaders were invited for talks with Shah which ended post 11pm. The farmer leaders said that Centre was not ready to repeal the farm laws.
The meeting finally ended with farmer leaders saying that Centre was not ready to repeal the farm laws. CPI(M) Polit Bureau member Hannan Mol-
lah post the meeting said the home minister told the government would give in writing about the amendments it is willing to make, reports PTI. Turn to P6
FARMERS TAKE CENTRE STAGE! Bharat Bandh ends peacefully; life hit in some states New Delhi: Farmers took the national centrestage on Tuesday as their call for a Bharat Bandh’ to push for a repeal of the new agri laws disrupted life in myriad ways with shops closed, transport affected and protesters squatting on roads and train tracks in several places, though many states remained largely unaffected. The day wound to a mostly peaceful close even as thousands of farmers who have been protesting for last 12 days said that the bandh was effective and was
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Crowd at Azadpur vegetable market amid a nationwide strike called by agitating farmers to press for repeal of agri laws, in New Delhi on Tuesday. —PHOTO BY PTI
observed in around 10,000 places in 25 states. Emergency services were exempted and
PM: Mobile tech to be used for mass vaccination drive against pandemic Self-register via Co-WIN app to enter vax programme PM Narendra Modi greets as he addresses inaugural session of India Mobile Congress 2020 virtually in New Delhi on Tuesday.
New Delhi: With the chances of a COVID-19 vaccine being available soon increasing, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said the mobile technology will be used for mass inoculation against the pandemic. Speaking at the India Mobile Congress, he said mobile technology has enabled benefits worth billions of dollars to reach the deserving and also helped the poor and vulnerable during the pandemic. “It is also with the help of mobile technology that we will embark on one of the world’s largest COVID-19 vacci-
nation drive,” he said. He did not provide details. Three leading coronavirus vaccine developers—Pfizer Inc and AstraZeneca Plc and Bharat Biotech— have applied for emergency use authorization in India. While Pfizer India has applied to drug regulator for permission to import its experimental mRNA vaccine for sale and distribution without the requirement for local clinical trials, Serum Institute of India Ltd, AstraZeneca’s India vaccine partner, has applied for emergency use authorisation. Turn to P6
New Delhi: With three vaccine-makers having applied for emergency use authorisation in India, the vaccination drive in India is likely to begin shortly. The health ministry on Tuesday revealed details of how the entire vaccination programme will be conducted, though no date has been made public so far. Addressing a press meet on Tuesday, health secretary Rajesh Bhushan said Centre has created an application which will monitor the process from the beginning to the end. Co-WIN, the new app will be available for free download, is an upgraded version of the Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network (eVIN).
ALL ABOUT THE APP z App will be useful
for all those engaged in the process. Govt will be vaccinating priority groups in the first two phases.
z There are five mod-
ules in Co-WIN app: Administrator module, registration module, vaccination module, beneficiary acknowledgement module and report module.
vaccination status. z Beneficiary
module is for administrators who will be conducting these vaccination sessions.
acknowledgement module will send SMS to beneficiaries. It will also generate QRbased certificates after one gets vaccinated.
z Registration
z Report module will
z The administrator
module is for people to get registered for vaccination.
z Vaccination module
will verify beneficiary details and update
prepare reports of how many vaccine sessions have been conducted, how many people have attended those, how many people have dropped out etc.
banks, too, continued operations as the panIndia shutdown, backed by most opposition par-
Ambani hints at 5G rollout by 2021 mid New Delhi: Billionaire Mukesh Ambani on Tuesday hinted at rolling out 5G telecom services in the second half of 2021 and said policy steps are needed to accelerate the early rollout of ultra-high-speed 5G services that are affordable and available everywhere. 5G is the 5th generation mobile network that enables connecting virtually everyone and everything together including machines, objects, and devices. “In order to maintain this lead, policy steps are needed to accelerate the early rollout of 5G, and to make it affordable and available everywhere,” he said. “I assure you that Jio will pioneer the 5G Revolution in India in the second half of 2021.” Jio’s 5G will be powered by the indigenously-developed network, hardware and technology components. “Jio’s 5G service will be a testimony to your inspiring vision of AtmaNirbhar Bharat.”
ties and trade unions, rolled out noisily but peacefully with its impact felt Turn to P6
Oppn will meet Prez Kovind on Wednesday and the delegation of 5 will include Rahul Gandhi, Sharad Pawar and others. “Leaders from different political parties (opposing the farm bills) will sit, discuss and take a collective stand on the contentious farm laws before meeting President Ram Nath Kovind,” NCP chief Sharad Pawar told reporters.
China’s military camps coming up along LAC
New Delhi: It seems the Chinese had been enhancing their preparedness for situations like the ongoing conflict with India on the Line of Actual Control (LAC) soon after the 2017 Doklam crisis as they have developed several military camps in their depth areas all along the LAC from Ladakh to Arunachal Pradesh. The Chinese and Indian troops have been engaged in a standoff position with India since April-May timeframe and are now sitting on the heights upto 18,000 feet in the cold desert area of Ladakh. “The Chinese have been developing military camps in their depth areas all along the LAC. Around 20 of such camps have been observed with some civilians also around these places,” government sources told ANI.
Such camps can provide ability to the Chinese Army to better patrol their side of the LAC as well as to react faster to the developing situations in the border areas, they said. The over two-months long Doklam crisis had taken place in 2017 when India had objected to the Chinese building roads in the Bhutanese areas which would have given them access close to the Chicken’s neck area which connects mainland India with the Northeastern states. The Chinese have come up with close to 60,000 troops backed by heavy artillery, missile forces and armoured regiments. India too has moved its might to the highest battlefield in the world and deployed three full mountain warfare divisions on the frontline. —ANI
Bow to Cow: Jute Coats for Cows To Shield Them During Winters Not merely shelter, stray cows to also get special coats to beat the winter chill M Tariq Khan Lucknow: Steps taken by chief minister Yogi Adityanath to provide shelter to stray cows are finally bearing fruits. Not only shelter, stray cows will now also get specially hand-made jute coats to save them from the winter chill. The Animal Husbandry Department of the state has asked veterinary officers in vari-
ous districts to ensure proper protection for cows in state-run cow shelters during the winter months. Officials are now making arrangements for these cow coats that will be made of jute bags and will keep the cows warm. The cow shelters are also being covered with thick polythene curtains or ‘tarpaulin’ so that cold winds do not enter.
IN NUMBERS According to Animal Husbandry Department Joint Director Vidya Bhushan Singh, there are 5173 gaushala’s in the state. More than 5 lakh 26 thousand cows live here. Out of these, 38 gaushala’s in twenty districts are being operated by private institutions who are taking care of the protected cows with shelter.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath
Apart from the State Government private cow shelters are also playing an important role in the conservation of cows. Self-help institutions operating 38 cow shelters in twenty districts
of the state Private institutions have come forward to preserve the cow dynasty at the initiative of the government On the government’s directive, 38 gaushala’s are being run by private institu-
tions in twenty districts of the state. At the same time, private institutions are playing an important role in handling destitute cows. The Animal Husbandry Department is also paying Rs 900 per cow for the care of the cows to these institutions. According to Animal Husbandry Department Joint Director Vidya Bhushan Singh, there are 5173 gaushala’s in the state. More than 5 lakh 26 thousand cows live here. Out of these,
38 gaushala’s in twenty districts are being operated by private institutions. Who are taking care of the protected cows with shelter. He further informed that there are between 15 and 100 cows in the gaushala’s run by private institutions. However, the number of cows in these institutions. The work of calculating it has started. In one to two days, how many cows are present in the gaushala’s run by private institutions will be known. Turn to P6