HYDERABAD: Syed Tayyab Hussain and Syed Sohail Mehmood aka Sohail Mashhadi of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on Tuesday took the oath as the mayor and deputy mayor, respectively, of the Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (HMC)...
Speaking briefly to the audience and media, Mr Hussain pledged to serve the people of Hyderabad without any discrimination...
HYDERABAD: The oath taking ceremony of Hyderabad’s mayor and deputy mayor was an utterly disorganised event held in the Hyderabad Club on Monday...
The ceremony was attended by Sindh Irrigation Minister Jam Khan Shoro (elder brother of Kashif Shoro), Sindh Assembly member Abdul Jabbar Khan, Information Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon’s son Rawal Sharjeel, Deputy Commissioner Fuad Ghaffar Soomro and Hyderabad SSP Sajid Sadozai, besides a...
VATICAN CITY: Dozens of mayors from around the world demanded on Tuesday that their national leaders take bold steps at the Paris climate talks this year, saying that could be the last chance to keep the Earth’s warming to levels still safe for humanity...
One by one, some of the 60 mayors invited to a two-day Vatican conference lined up to sign a final declaration stating that “human-induced climate change is a scientific reality...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has in the recent weeks forced from office several of Turkey's big-city mayors, in a purge of local officials designed to shore up support for his ruling party...
In a fast-moving and sometimes ruthless chain of resignations, four top city mayors have stepped down at Erdogan's request, paying the price for the ruling party's somewhat lacklustre performance in the April referendum on...
MADRID: Spain’s biggest cities — Madrid and Barcelona — completed one of the nation’s biggest political upheavals in years on Saturday by swearing in far-left mayors...
BARCELONA: More than 700 mayors from Catalonia met on Saturday in Barcelona in a show of strength amid pressure from Spain’s central government not to hold an independence referendum for the northeastern region...
The Catalan government has been scrambling to push forward the vote, despite the central government’s warnings that local municipalities are not allowed to use public buildings for it and mayors can be legally prosecuted...
ISTANBUL: Turkey on Sunday removed 28 mayors accused of links to Kurdish militants or US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, using emergency powers to replace them with state-appointed trustees in a move that sparked accusations of trampling on democracy...
The mayors have been suspended from their posts on suspicion of links to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) which is waging a deadly insurgency in the southeast, or Gulen, who is blamed...
ISLAMABAD: A judge of the Supreme Court, hearing a case relating to the election of mayors, deputy mayors, chairmen, vice chairmen and members of reserved seats in Sindh local governments, regretted on Thursday that the electorate was suffering in a fight between two giants...
In its judgment, the high court, while deciding applications of the MQM and PML-F, had declared as void the recent amendments to the local government law...
RAWALPINDI: PML-N aspirants may be lobbying for the offices, but it will be Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif who will choose the mayors and deputy mayors of the Lahore, Rawalpindi and Islamabad municipal corporations, according to a local party official...
He pointed out that the local government elections were held under the Political Parties Act and those voting against the party ticket holders in the election of mayor and two...
LAHORE: Mayors and their deputies under the local bodies system took the oath in nine districts of Punjab on Saturday amid controversy surrounding new set-ups at the district level, where the provincial government is redefining the role of the district management...
In Multan, Naveedul Haq Arrain took the oath as mayor and Munawar Ehsan Qureshi and Muhammad Saeed Ansari as deputy mayors...
DIYARBAKIR: Turkish police clashed with protesters in Diyarbakir on Wednesday, using tear gas and water cannon to prevent them demonstrating against the detention of the Kurdish-majority city’s co-mayors...
The prosecutor denied the co-mayors access to lawyers for five days, Dogan news agency reported, which is permitted under the state of emergency imposed after the July 15 failed coup...
LARKANA: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has said that opposition parties seek direct election of mayors and chairmen of towns and metropolitans, which is impossible...
France’s mayors have called on members of the public and elected officials to gather at town halls across the country on Monday in a show of mass opposition to violent protests that have dragged on for nearly a week...
In a press release, an association of the country’s mayors noted that “communes everywhere in France are the scene of serious unrest, which targets republican symbols with extreme violence”...
NEW DELHI: Apple said Thursday it will open a development office in Hyderabad, as its chief executive Tim Cook continued his India charm offensive with an investment boon to one of the country's top technology hubs...
It pits Apple against Google, which has made maps a key focus of its attempt to forge inroads in India, a vast but largely untapped Internet market where almost a billion people are still not online...
NEW DELHI: Apple is slated to build its first technology development centre outside the United States in India's Hyderabad city in Telangana state in the latter half of this year, Times of India reported...
The centre will occupy 250,000 square feet in Hyderabad's IT corridor in the Tishman Speyer WaveRock facility...