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

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Firoze Shakir: The saffron clad ‘Sufi’ photographer of Bombay

Hyderabad: Street photography today is a lot more accessible thanks to smart phones and also due to social media and the easy access to technology. But back when the internet was still…
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Hyderabad: ‘Caller Imran’ booked for comments on AIMIM MLA Majid Hussain

Hyderabad: The Asifnagar police booked a case against Mohammed Imran, alias ‘caller Imran’, for making derogatory comments against AIMIM Nampally MLA Mohammed Majid Hussain. Imran had called to a police official following…

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Streetlights on in Hyderabad spite of GHMC’s Rs 144 Cr default: EESL

Hyderabad: Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL), said that it has been left in a ‘precarious’ situation by the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) with regard to payments for maintaining streetlights in the city.…
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Hyderabad: Rs 19.5 lakh saved from cyber crime in ICICI bank

Hyderabad: The cyber crime unit of the city police here prevented the transfer of Rs 19.50 lakh to online fraudsters in two separate cases through timely intervention with the help of bank…
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Telangana SC sub categorisation: CM issues orders to form committee

Hyderabad: Telangana chief minister Revanth Reddy on Tuesday, October 9, ordered officials to constitute a ‘One-Man Commission’ for the implementation of the Scheduled Caste (SC) sub categorisation in accordance with the Supreme…
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Local Body elections after completion of BC caste survey: Telangana CM

Hyderabad: Telangana chief minister Revanth Reddy on Wednesday said that local body elections in Telangana will be held after the Backward Classes (BC) survey will be completed. At a review meeting, he…
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171 lakes encroached in Hyderabad between 2014 and 2023: Report

Hyderabad: As many as 171 water bodies or local lakes have been encroached in the city over the last decade since Telangana was formed, including those in the Outer Ring Road (ORR),…

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Hyderabad: Nampally Sarai repair continues to lie in disrepair

Hyderabad: The historic Nampally Sarai, originally built as a rest house for travellers using the Nampally railway station, continues to be in disuse and in shambles. The monument, which is supposed to…
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Hyderabad: Complaint filed against Azmet Jah as HEH Nizam Awqaf committee head

Hyderabad: A complaint has been filed against the appointment of Azmet Jah Bahadur, the great grandson of Hyderabad’s last Nizam (Osman Ali Khan), as the Chairman/ President of the Awqaf Committee of…
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Protests against Narsinghanand continue in Hyderabad over Prophet remarks

Hyderabad: Protests against Ghaziabad based Seer Yati Narsinghanand continued in the city on Sunday over his comments made against Prophet Muhammad. At Jahanuma, a local social worker Meer Ahmed Ali held a…
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AIMIM likely to go solo for 2024 Maharashtra Assembly polls

Hyderabad: It looks like the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) will go solo in the upcoming Maharashtra Assembly elections. While state chief and ex-MP Aurangabad MP Imtiyaz Jaleel has been reportedly trying…
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Not trying to suppress Musi river dwellers through bulldozers: Telangana CM

Hyderabad: Taking on the opposition on the issue of HYDRA and resettling people from the Musi river bed in the city, Telangana chief minister Revanth Reddy, who is currently in the eye…
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Telangana CM approves Old City, Hyderabad Airport Metro corridors

Hyderabad: Telangana chief minister Revanth Reddy on Sunday, September 29, approved the Metro Rail’s phase II corridors which includes the metro’s lines connecting Hyderabad to the airport, and also a line connecting the…
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Hyderabad: ASI surveying Golconda’s Patancheru Darwaza to draw boundary with army

Hyderabad: The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) here is surveying the Golconda Fort’s Patancheru Darwaza. The ancient doorway, which is currently in ruins, has a part of it which the Indian Army…
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Hyderabad: Pathway to Baobab tree in Golconda’s Naya Qila still damaged

Hyderabad: A year after heavy rains damaged the pathway leading to the ancient Baobab tree or ‘Hathiyan ka Jhad’ (as known in local parlance) in Golconda fort’s Naya Qila, the route still…