Lucknow: The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) has started inviting applications from candidates willing to contest the 2022 assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh. The application will be in the prescribed form and will also include a loyalty contract. The ‘loyalty contract’ says that the applicant will campaign for the party …

22-06-2021 Bureau Report + BBC CANBERRA/ MELBOURNE/ SYDNEY: Australia’s government has lashed out after a United Nations report claimed it had not done enough to protect the Great Barrier Reef from climate change. UN body UNESCO said the reef should be put on a list of World Heritage Sites that …

22-06-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ BENGALURU: India on Monday began a nationwide campaign of free COVID-19 shots for all adults after weeks of criticism that a chaotic rollout had caused acute shortages and intensified a deadly second wave that killed hundreds of thousands in April and May. Earlier this month, …

22-06-2021 WASHINGTON: Former US President Donald Trump considered sending US citizens infected with the coronavirus to Guantanamo Bay, according to a new book “Don’t we have an island that we own?” Trump asked staff in the Situation Room in February 2020, the Washington Post reported. “What about Guantanamo?” Guantanamo Bay is a …

22-06-2021 GAZA CITY/ UNITED NATIONS/ JERUSALEM: Hamas’s talks with the United Nations UN) over the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip have failed, the group’s leader in the enclave said. “This was a bad meeting and it was completely negative,” Yahya Sinwar said on Monday. “The meeting with the UN …

21-06-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India has opened up free vaccinations to all adults in an attempt to bolster its inoculation drive, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi kicks off a muted International Yoga Day, hailing the practice’s “protective” properties against the virus. The country’s vaccination drive has significantly slowed in …

21-06-2021 JERUSALEM/ TEHRAN: Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has condemned the new Iranian president as a “hangman”, describing Ebrahim Raisi’s election win as a final “wake up” call for world powers before returning to a nuclear agreement with Tehran. Bennett made the comments on Sunday as he opened his first …

21-06-2021 Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD/ WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden will meet Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and the chairman of Afghanistan’s High Council for National Reconciliation Abdullah Abdullah at the White House on Friday to discuss the US troop withdrawal amid a surge in fighting between Afghan forces and the …

21-06-2021 ALABAMA: Dozens of people have been killed as Tropical Depression Claudette swept across the southeastern US, causing flash flooding and spurring tornadoes that destroyed dozens of homes. Ten people, including nine children, were killed Saturday in a 15-vehicle crash about 35 miles (55 kilometers) south of Montgomery on Interstate …

Hyderabad, June 20 (PMI): Minister for Industries and IT,  KT Rama Rao has requested the Center to establish a Vaccination Testing Centre in the city without any delay. Pointing out that the city has become the ‘vaccine capital’, KTR stated there is need for vaccine testing center here. If the …