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: Adluri Laxman to meet high command over Ponnam’s buffalo remark

Hyderabad: Telangana SC,ST welfare minister has said that he will approach the Congress high command over his cabinet colleague and BC minister Ponnam Prabhakar allegedly calling him a buffalo. The remark was…
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Hyderabad: Jubilee Hills by election to be held on November 11

Hyderabad: The much-awaited Jubilee Hills by-election will be held on November 11. With the date out, the campaigning for the seat will get more intense as the ruling Congress government is looking…

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Hyderabad: 123 years after 1908 Musi floods, govt yet to learn prevention

Hyderabad: By this time in October, 1908, Hyderabad was devastated like never before in its recorded history. The mighty Musi river had overflown across the city a week earlier between September 28…
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Hundreds gather for Pro-Palestine protests in Hyderabad

Hyderabad: Hundreds of people gathered in Hyderabad at Dharna Chowk in protest on Sunday, October 5, against the ongoing killings of innocent civilians by Israel in Gaza. The protesters demanding that the…
Hyderabad

Kavitha appoints news members to Telangana Jagruthi committee

Hyderabad: Weeks after being suspended from the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), MLC and Telangana Jagruthi president K Kavitha on Friday, October 3, announced the appointment of new members to the organisation’s state…
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1908 Musi River floods: September, a month of tragedies in Hyderabad

Hyderabad: If there is any month to choose from in a year that is tragic in Hyderabad’s history, it is September. Albeit not in the same year, the month has historically been…
Telangana

Telangana govt seeks bids for Israeli software to hack into phones

Hyderabad: Even as the Telangana government faces accusations of misusing voter data, a new government tender by the Telangana State Cyber Security Bureau (TGCBS) shows the police department seeking some very invasive…

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Rains in Hyderabad: Old City roads, bridge closed with traffic diversions

Hyderabad: The traffic police here on Friday, September 26, has shut down the Chaderghat Causeway bridge, Kulsumpura to Puranapul to Jiyaguda road and the Moosarambagh due to heavy rainfall which has caused…
Telangana

Telangana local body elections: Govt passes order for 42 PC BC reservation

Hyderabad: Nearly a month after the Telangana cabinet deciding to implement 42 percent reservations for Backward Classes (BC), the state government on Friday, September 26, passed an order to implement it in…
Hyderabad

Jubilee Hills by election: Maganti Sunitha announced as BRS candidate

Hyderabad: Maganti Sunitha, the widow of the late Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) Jubilee Hills MLA Maganti Gopinath, has been announced as the BRS candidate for the upcoming Jubilee Hills by election. The…
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L&T to formally exit Hyderabad Metro rail; state govt to take over

Hyderabad: The Telangana government will formally take over the Hyderabad Metro rail project over from L&T Metro. It was agreed in principle that state government will take over the existing phase one…
Telangana

Telangana: BRS defectors, coming by elections become burden for Congress

Hyderabad: Engineering defections from the opposition Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) seems to have become a burden for the ruling Congress in Telangana as the party is in no mood to contest by…
Hyderabad

BJP readies for Jubilee Hills by election, candidate still undisclosed

Hyderabad: Telangana Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) N Ramchander Rao on Wednesday, September 24, held his first meeting with the newly appointed working committee members of the state unit. The party discussed key…
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Hyderabad: GHMC fines Ramky agency Rs 1 lakh for not clearing garbage

Hyderabad: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) here has fined Ramky agency Rs 1 lakh for negligence in garbage disposal. The civic body took action against Ramki for negligence in sanitation work,…
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Hyderabad: 24 hour water supply disruption in some areas from Sept 24

Hyderabad: Water supply will be disrupted and pressure is likely to get affected in some areas of Hyderabad owing to repair works being taken up by the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and…