Yunus Lasania

With over 9 years of experience in reporting, Yunus Lasania is a journalist who has worked with 3 national dailies in his career. He last worked as the state correspondent for Andhra Pradesh and Telangana with Mint (HT Media). With a deep love for Hyderabad and its history, he also runs the Instagram page The Hyderabad History Project, and is also the host of Beyond Charminar, a podcast series on the history of Hyderabad, focusing on the lesser known aspects of his city. Yunus is the City Editor of Siasat.com

Hyderabad

In a first 9th ‘Nizam’ of Hyderabad to speak in public at HLF

Hyderabad: Prince Azmet Jah, the son of Hyderabad’s 8th Nizam Mukarram Jah Bahadur (who passed away in 2023), will be speaking at the Hyderabad Lit Fest (HLF) this year. He will be…
Hyderabad

Ex-journo from Osmania University’s first journalism batch dies at 99

Hyderabad: Former journalist from Hyderabad Dasu Krishnamoorty, who graduated from the first batch of Osmania University’s Journalism Department, passed away on Wednesday, January 21. Krishnamoorthy was 99 years old and died in…

Hyderabad

Phone-tapping case: May summon Harish Rao again, says Hyderabad Commissioner

Hyderabad: A day after former minister T Harish Rao was quizzed for 8 hours in the phone-tapping case, Hyderabad Police Commissioner VC Sajjanar requested the public not to believe, propagate or circulate…
Hyderabad

Puranapul temple vandalism: 11 more arrested for damaging shrine

Hyderabad: The Kamatipura Police in Hyderabad on Monday, January 19, arrested 11 people accused in the Puranapul communal violence that took place last week. While the Hyderabad Police earlier took into custody…
Hyderabad

Delhi’s favourite Bahrisons Booksellers opens branch in Hyderabad

Hyderabad: As a city that has seen bookstores dwindle over the years, and even turn into mere stationery shops, Hyderabad has not had much to offer over the last decade for book…
Hyderabad

Hyderabad: Rajkumari Indiradevi Dhanrajgir of Gyan Bagh Palace passes away

Hyderabad: After battling with health issues in recent times, Rajkumari Indiradevi Dhanrajgir, 95, an eminent member of the erstwhile aristocratic Dhanrajgir family in Hyderabad, passed away on Tuesday, January 13. Her last…
India

Lack of transparency, says NHRC to Railway Board’s on Halal food issue

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Monday said that the report submitted by the Indian Railways on the issue of serving halal-certified food in trains is “incomplete” and also “lacks transparency”.…

Hyderabad

Telangana govt to introduce new education policy, priority for girls: CM

Hyderabad: The Telangana government is going to introduce a new education policy soon, said Chief Minister Revanth Reddy on Thursday, January 8, adding that pre-primary school children in villages will be provided…
Hyderabad

Esra threw my father Mukarram Jah’s clothes out after death: Azam Jah

Hyderabad: Three years ago, in 2023, the last and eight titular Nizam of Hyderabad, Mukarram Jah, passed away at the age of 89, leaving behind a legacy that in some ways will…
Hyderabad

Kavitha-led Telangana Jagruthi to form committees, go independent

Hyderabad: The K Kavitha-led Telangana Jagruthi is reportedly on course to become an independent political organisation. The ex-Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLC, who was expelled from the party last year for anti-party…
Telangana

KCR creating water disputes to save BRS: Telangana CM

Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, on Thursday, January 1, alleged that the former Chief Minister, K Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR), is creating water disputes between Andhra Pradesh and Telangana to keep his…
India

MP: BJP minister says ‘ghanta’ during verbal clash with journo, apologises

Madhya Pradesh minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Kailash Vijayvargiya had to eat humble pie and apologise after verbally clashing with a journalist over deaths caused by contaminated water in Indore.…
Telangana

Defended Telangana Godavari Water Rights against AP: Uttam Kumar Reddy

Hyderabad: Telangana Irrigation and Civil Supplies minister N Uttam Kumar Reddy on Wednesday, December 31, asserted that the government here has “robustly” defended the state’s irrigation interests in the ongoing water dispute…
Hyderabad

Hyderabad: New police commissionerates Future City, Malkajgiri created

Hyderabad: The Telangana government on Monday, December 29, said that it has reorganised the city’s three police commissionerates – Hyderabad, Cyberabad, Rachakonda – into four new ones. The old Rachakonda police circle…
Telangana

Telangana Congress govt has pushed Palamuru back into distress: KTR

Hyderabad: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president KT Rama Rao (KTR) on Sunday, December 28, accused the the ruling Congress of reversing the development achieved in the Palamuru district and pushing it…