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

TTD board member slams Telangana CM on ‘anti-Hindu’ remarks

Hyderabad: Telangana chief minister Revanth Reddy’s remarks on Hindus and gods of the community’s religion seems to be snowballing into a big controversy with. Tirupati Tirumala Devasthanam (TTD) board member and BJP…
Hyderabad

AI University to begin operations in 2 months: Telangana IT min

Hyderabad: Telangana IT minister D Sridhar Babu on Monday, December 1, said that the Artificial Intelligence University, being established with the technical collaboration of some of the world’s top universities, will be…

Hyderabad

Hyderabad: Man scammed of Rs 1 L in online sexual service scam

Hyderabad: A 20-year-old young man was scammed of Rs 1,02,093 after he paid the amount to online scamsters who made him believe that he was paying for sexual services. The victim is…
Hyderabad

Telangana Rising Global Summit: PM Modi, Rahul Gandhi among invitees

Hyderabad: The Telangana government will invite Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Leader of Opposition (and Congress MP) Rahul Gandhi for the state government’s flagship Telangana Rising Global Summit. Chief ministers of all…
Hyderabad

Scrap merger of municipalities, corporations with GHMC: BJP to govt

Hyderabad: Telangana Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state president N Ramchander Rao on Friday, November 28, today strongly opposed the state Congress government’s decision to expand the jurisdiction of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal…
News

No verification of EVM data sought after Jubilee Hills bypoll: Telangana CEO

Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) C Sudharshan Reddy on Friday, November 28, said that no candidate sought checking and verification of the burnt memory or microcontroller of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs)…
Hyderabad

Opinion: CM saying Hyderabad will compete with cities like Tokyo is laughable

Hyderabad: One of the things that Telangana chief minister Revanth Reddy has been repeating is that he will turn Hyderabad into one of the best cities; one that he says can be…

Hyderabad

Tipai: A weekend getaway where wildlife meets luxury

Hyderabad: When you think of tiger reserves or about going to watch wildlife, luxury or food aren’t usually that come to mind first. But honestly, the two nights I spent at Tipai…
Telangana

Interest free loans to be distributed tomorrow: Telangana dy CM

Hyderabad: Telangana deputy chief minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka on Monday, November 24, said that interest-free loans worth Rs 304 crore will be distributed to 3.50 lakh women from Self-Help Groups (SHG). Bhatti,…
World

Trump praises Mamdani after meeting; says he is ok being called fascist

In a historic moment that left many on the left and right amused, US President Donald Trump not only praised New York city Mayor Elect Zohran Mamdani, but also publicly acknowledged being…
Telangana

Telangana local body polls: KCR to stay away from campaigning

Hyderabad: With the Telangana government all set to conduct the local body elections in the coming weeks, many are wondering if ex-chief minister and Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) supremo K Chandrasekhar Rao…
Hyderabad

Munshi Naan reopens after old location razed for Hyderabad metro

Hyderabad: Close to a month after the demolition of its 174-year-old building, Munshi Naan has now reopened in the same vicinity. The new location of the shop is on the Chatta Bazar…
Hyderabad

Hyderabad: Biological-E’s PNEUBEVAX vaccine gets WHO pre-qualifitication

Hyderabad: City based leading pharma company Biological E. Limited (BE) on Thursday, November 20, announced that the World Health Organisation (WHO) has granted pre-qualification (PQ) status to its 14-valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine…
Telangana

Telangana govt in talks with Amazon to provide SHGs online market

Hyderabad: The Telangana government is holding talks with e-commerce giant Amazon to provide women self-help groups (SHG) a big online market. Chief minister Revanth Reddy said that the government aims to provide…
Telangana

Telangana CM Revanth seeks Centre’s help to develop Hyderabad

Hyderabad: Telangana chief minister Revanth Reddy on Tuesday, November 18, requested Union Minister Manohar Lal Khattar to approve state’s projects including the Musi Rejuvenation project and the Hyderabad Metro Rail expansion. The…