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

Operation Polo: How the BJP shifted the narrative to ‘Hyderabad Liberation Day’

Hyderabad: It is no secret that the right is always looking for reasons to flay minorities for political mileage. Hyderabad’s annexation to India in 1948 being brushed under the carpet throughout the state’s…
Hyderabad

Opinion: Was the last Nizam of Hyderabad’s independence bid a mistake?

Hyderabad: By September 16 in 1948 it was pretty much game over for the erstwhile Hyderabad state’s last Nizam Mir Osman Ali Khan, whose government was fighting a ‘war’ against the Indian…

Telangana

Telangana to lose Rs 5000 cr revenue due to GST rate revision: Dy CM

Hyderabad: The Telangana government will lose Rs 5,000 crore in revenue every year due to the revision of Goods and Services Tax (GST) rates, said deputy chief minister Bhatti Vikramarka Mallu. He…
Hyderabad

UoH: Congress student group NSUI blocks membership of ex-ABVP leader

Hyderabad: The Congress affiliated National Students Union of India’s (NSU) University of Hyderabad (UoH) unit has prevented the joining of an ex-ABVP member into its fold. NSUI students from the campus wrote…
Hyderabad

Hyderabad: Internet body begins restoring services following mass outage

Hyderabad: After weeks of several internet outages and service disruptions since the Ganesh immersions, the All India Fixed Internet Service Providers Association (AIFISPA) assured Hyderabad residents that the ISPs are working with…
Hyderabad

Telangana CM asks railways to build Hyderabad to Amaravati train

Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Thursday appealed to the railway authorities to start a bullet train service from Hyderabad to Andhra Pradesh’s capital Amaravati and even to Chennai. Amaravati…
Hyderabad

Community certificates now faster to get via MeeSeva: Telangana IT min

Hyderabad: Obtaining SC, ST, and BC community certificates in Telangana will now become significantly faster and easier through the MeeSeva services, announced Telangana IT minister D Sridhar Babu on Wednesday, September 10.…

Hyderabad

Jubilee Hills by election: Revanth acting like BJP CM, KTR tells minorities

Hyderabad: Accusing the ruling Congress in Telangana, Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president KT Rama Rao (KTR) on Wednesday asked minorities in Hyderabad to “recognise that chief minister Revanth Reddy is acting…
Hyderabad

Hyderabad: GHMC begins linking property tax data with power bills

Hyderabad: In a bid to increase its revenue from property tax, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) here has begun linking Property Tax Identification Numbers (PTINs) with Electricity Service Connections (USCs) of…
Hyderabad

Telangana govt misused voter roll photos for facial recognition: Activist

Hyderabad: Independent researcher Srinivas Kodali has written to the Election Commission of India (ECI) and the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), Telangana, stating that electoral roll or voter photos from the ECI’s database…
Hyderabad

Will get 20 TMC Godavari water to Hyderabad, 4 TMC for Musi river: CM

Hyderabad: Telangana chief minister Revanth Reddy on Monday, September 8, said that the Congress government will bring 20 thousand million cubic feet (TMC) of water from the Godavari river water to Hyderabad,…
Hyderabad

Hyderabad: Draft voter rolls for Jubilee Hills by election given to parties

Hyderabad: In preparation for the Jubilee Hills by election, Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) commissioner and Hyderabad District Election Officer (DEO) RV Karnan held a meeting with representatives of all political parties…
Hyderabad

Jubilee Hills by election: Naveen Yadav, Ranjith Reddy in race for Congress ticket

Hyderabad: With Mohd Azharuddin out of the race, all eyes are on the Congress leadership in Telangana to see who be the party’s candidate for the upcoming Jubilee Hills by election. While…
Telangana

Telangana CM Revanth to visit flood-hit Kamareddy tomorrow

Hyderabad: Telangana chief minister Revanth Reddy will visit the flood affected Kamareddy district on September 4. He will visit the flood hit areas in the district and will reach Tadwai mandal by…
Hyderabad

Providing free electricity to farmers is YSR’s patent: Telangana dy DM

Hyderabad: Praising former Andhra Pradesh (joint state) chief minister DR YS Rajasekhara Reddy, Telangana deputy chief minister Bhatti Vikramarka Mallu on Tuesday, September 2, said that the providing free power to farmers…