Mumbai: In case the Ulhasnagar municipal workers were missing, or had missed out on, standing outside classrooms in punishment for reaching school late, on Monday provided them a refreshing adult version of the old lesson in punctuality. Around 10:35 am on Monday, over 150 staffers at the headquarters of the Ulhasnagar Municipal Corporation flushed red in the face as they endured standing in the summer swelter for close to an...
10:25 PM, May 22, 2012
London: Indian-origin councillor Abdul Razak Osman has become the first Lord Mayor of the Islamic faith to hold the high office in the multi-cultural town of Leicester, which has a large minority of Indian origin people. Osman was born in Kenya and arrived in the UK in 1971. His late father Yousuf Razak worked on the East African Railway, and worked for a local engineering firm after moving to Leicester....
05:20 PM, May 18, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: In yet another visit to the Secretariat by a City Corporation team to bring about a decision in the Vilappilsala issue, one more letter was given to Urban Affairs Minister Manjalamkuzhy Ali by Mayor K Chandrika. This time, urging him to visit the Vilappilsala waste treatment plant before taking a decision, instead of sitting inside the comfy office and be directed by others. The Mayor and the Deputy Mayor,...
11:31 AM, May 09, 2012
BANGALORE: It was a day of seeking blessings for the newly-elected Mayor D Venkatesha Murthy on Friday. On the first day of assuming office, the mayor sought the blessings of his political bosses and also of divine forces. The mayor began his day by seeking divine blessings at Sri Kalikamba Temple in Katriguppe (his constituency). Later, he drove straight to Anugraha to meet his political boss Chief Minister D V...
09:08 AM, Apr 28, 2012
BANGALORE: Newly-elected Mayor D Venkatesh Murthy inadvertently broke traffic rules on the very first day of assuming the office as the first citizen of the city.Around 4 pm, the Mayor, along with others, arrived at M G Road to pay tributes to the statue of Mahatma Gandhi.After garlanding the statue, his convoy violated traffic rules not just by going on one way but also jumping the signal.The Mayor was accompanied...
09:20 AM, Apr 27, 2012
Burlington (Canada): The mayor of Burlington, Ontario says three people are dead after a Canadian Via Rail passenger train derailed in his town Mayor Rick Goldring says emergency crews are working to pull other passengers from the wreckage and at least one air ambulance is on standby. Via Rail spokeswoman Michelle Lamarche said 75 people were on board the train travelling from Niagara Falls to Toronto, when it derailed on...
08:34 AM, Feb 27, 2012
Nagpur: In an upset, ruling BJP's outgoing Mayor Archana Dehankar and Deputy Mayor Shekhar Sawarbandhe of Shiv Sena have lost to Congress nominees in their respective seats, as counting of votes for Nagpur Municipal Corporation is underway. Congress candidates Harshada Sabde and Prashant Dhawad defeated Dehankar and Sawarbandhe respectively. Out of 36 seats for which results are out, BJP has won 19, Congress 10, BSP, Shiv Sena 2 each, NCP...
01:41 PM, Feb 17, 2012
Pune: Mayor Mohansingh Rajpal has been accused of misusing the mayor's fund for personal gain. The allegation was made by RTI activist Mahendra Dhavade on the basis of a brief account statement obtained from the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) Information Office. Rajpal refuted the allegation, calling it an attempt to malign his image at a time when elections were nearing. Urging Municipal Commissioner Mahesh Pathak to conduct an inquiry, Dhavade...
12:46 PM, Jan 25, 2012
CHENNAI:If residents treat the city as they treat their own home, a chunk of problems can be solved, said Mayor of Chennai Corporation, Saidai SDuraisamy. Speaking at the inauguration of the Raja Annamalai PuramResidents Welfare Association here on Sunday, he said that thecleanliness of their surrounding was in their hands. After having stated that the Chennai Corporation lacked basicfacilities when he and his team took up office, the Mayor added...
08:26 AM, Jan 23, 2012
HYDERABAD: As one walks into the chambers of the newly-elected Mayor, Mohammed Majid Hussain, one cannot but take note of the absence of three framed photographs -- that of President Pratibha Patil, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy. Instead, the walls are adorned with former MIM president the late Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi and his sons, MP Asaduddin Owaisi and MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi. As Mohammed Majid...
08:58 AM, Jan 06, 2012
HYDERABAD: Greater Hyderabad has its new mayor and deputy mayor. Mohammed Majid Hussain of Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) and Golkonda Raj Kumar of Indian National Congress (INC) have been unanimously elected as the second new mayor and deputy mayor of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC). Earlier MIM had its mayor during the period of 1986-1991. Selection of the candidates by their respective parties surprised many including their own party corporators and...
10:45 AM, Jan 04, 2012
Chandigarh: Riding on the support of nominated councillors, ruling Congress swept the Mayoral polls of Chandigarh Municipal Corporation in Chandigarh on Sunday. All the three posts of Mayor, Senior Deputy Mayor and Deputy Mayor went in the Congress' kitty. Raja Bala Malik of the Congress will be the city's 18th Mayor. She secured 21 votes as against 12 secured by BJP's Asha Jaiswal. BSP's candidate Janat Jahan secured just two...
03:10 PM, Jan 01, 2012
CHENNAI: Mayor Saidai Duraisamy on Wednesday said that the tar roads laid during the DMK regime that have crumbled due to the heavy downpour in the city, would be replaced with concrete roads that would last long. Speaking at an event organised by the Department of Planning, School of Architecture and Planning (SAP), Anna University, and the Institute of Town Planners India to mark World Town Planning Day, Duraisamy said...
08:19 AM, Dec 01, 2011
Sodaville, Oregon: A small city in Oregon has kicked out its mayor for not showing up to work. The Albany Democrat-Herald reports (http://bit.ly/q6i2V5 ) that Sodaville replaced 35-year-old Brady Harrington with the city council's president. The newspaper says Harrington missed council meetings in June and July, along with skipping three budget meetings. The new mayor, Nick Heineck, says Harrington was occupied as a firefighter and student, but would not commit...
12:42 PM, Aug 21, 2011
Kandahar: The Taliban say they sent the suicide bomber who killed the mayor of Kandahar in southern Afghanistan. Taliban spokesman Qari Yousef Ahmadi told The Associated Press on Wednesday that Mayor Ghulam Haider Hamidi had ordered the destruction of homes that city officials claimed had been illegally constructed. Ahmadi says the Taliban killed the mayor to avenge the deaths of two children who they allege were killed during the demolition...
02:43 PM, Jul 27, 2011
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