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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Telangana: Irregularities in Dalit Bandhu scheme found by FFGG

Hyderabad: Anti-corruption NGO Forum For Good Governance (FFGG) here wrote to Telangana chief minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao (KCR) asking him to evaluate the state government’s Dalit Bandhu scheme. FFGG members, who undertook…
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Hyderabad: Golconda stepwells at Qutb Shahi tombs win UNESCO award

Hyderabad: After close to a decade of rigorous hard work on restoration by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture and the state government, the restored stepwells in the historic Qutb Shah tombs…

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Prophet remarks: Raja Singh’s suspension may not be lifted soon

Hyderabad: Will the Telangana high court scrapping suspending Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA T Raja Singh’s detention under the Preventive Detention (PD) Act, all eyes are on the party’s central disciplinary committee…
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Telangana: Forum For Good Governance seeks inquiry into Munugode bypoll

Hyderabad: The Forum For Good Governance (FFCG) on Thursday wrote to the Election Commission seeking an inquiry into the just concluded Munugode by-poll. FFGG secretary M Padmanabh Reddy, in a letter to…
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Bangalore Ka Potta: Dakhni Urdu artist releases maiden rap album

Hyderabad: When 24-year-old rapper Mohammed Affan, aka Pasha Bhai, released his first single ‘Eid Ka Chaand’ with a music video in 2020, it caused a ripple in some music circles. The hip-hop…
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Bihar: RJD’s Gopalganj by-poll loss shows AIMIM is there to stay

Hyderabad: The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) once again showed that it has the ability to impact election results in Bihar’s just concluded Gopalganj by-poll. Of the two by-elections held for Gopalganj…
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Hyderabad: Is the Bhagyalaxmi temple at Charminar expanding?

Hyderabad: It is no secret that the Bhagyalaxmi temple’s existence on the historic Charminar is a matter of dispute. Regardless of the fact that it is in fact an unauthorised construction, the…

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Telangana: TRS to contest Munugode bypoll without I-PAC push

Hyderabad: The Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) and the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) continue to be at odds over the former’s political campaigning for the ruling party in Telangana. Ever since…
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Activist slams Telangana govt for losing CIPET training center

Hyderabad: City-based Right to Information (RTI) activist Robin Zaccheus on Thursday slammed the ruling TRS government for losing the chance to set up a Central Institute of Petrochemical Engineer and Technology (CIPET)…
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If Sep 17 is Liberation Day then why mourn Queen’s death?: KTR to BJP

Hyderabad: Telangana IT minister KT Rama Rao (KTR) on Friday asked the BJP-led Centre if it is ‘Liberation Day’ only when a Muslim king is involved. He was referring to September 17,…
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Why Hyderabad hasn’t learnt its lesson from the 1908 Musi river floods

Hyderabad: If there is one thing that the history of urban town planning has taught us, it is to never ever build homes in or around lake beds. But alas, history always…
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Telangana: IPAC, TRS at odds over KCR’s national ambitions

Hyderabad: The Prashant Kishor-led consulting firm Indian Political Action Committee (IPAC) and ruling TRS in Telangana seem to have hit an impasse over Telangana chief minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao’s (KCR) national dreams.…
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Sept 13 1948, Operation Polo: When the Army marched into Hyderabad

Hyderabad: As the British formally partitioned India and left on August 15, 1947, the whole country rejoiced. However, princely states that functioned semi-independently under the British crown, had not been fully integrated.…
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‘Hyderabad Liberation Day’: CPI honours Urdu revolutionary poet Makhdoom

Hyderabad: The Communist Party of India (CPI) here paid tributes to former party legend, legislator and revolutionary Urdu poet Makhdoom Mohiuddin. CPI workers gathered at Mohiuddin’s statue at Tank Bund as part…
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Centre to hold year-long ‘Hyderabad Liberation Day celebrations’ from Sept 17

Hyderabad: In a clear push to politically capitalise on historical events, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-run central government will organise a year-long ‘celebration’ marking ‘Hyderabad Liberation Day’ starting from September 17. Union…