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

Hyderabad: Complaint filed against Moghalpura inspector for thrashing public

Hyderabad: A complaint has been lodged against Moghalpura inspector Durga Prasad for needlessly thrashing the public – both pedestrians and commuters – in the Old City of Hyderabad. The complaint was sent…
Telangana

Telangana: Congress aiming at 17 more BRS MLA defections before budget session

Hyderabad: The Telangana Congress unit is aiming to get a total of 26 Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLAs to defect before the upcoming Budget session in order avoid by-elections. So far 10…

Telangana

Telangana govt violating protocol against BRS MLAs: KTR to Speaker

Hyderabad: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president and ex-IT minister KT Rama Rao on Monday wrote to the Assembly Speaker Gaddam Prasad claiming that the Congress government is violating protocols during public…
Hyderabad

BRS leaders junk talks of tie-up with BJP in Telangana

Hyderabad: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leaders from Telangana ruled out all possibilities of tying up with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The response comes a day after news reports suggesting that BRS…
Hyderabad

Hyderabad: Bhagyanagar Gas Ltd warns public of Whatsapp scam

Hyderabad: Bhagyanagar Gas Limited (BGL), which supplies gas in the city and in Andhra Pradesh, has issued a circular warning customers of scamsters who are using the company logo to cheat people.…
Hyderabad

CM Telangana Revanth announces establishment of Skill university

Hyderabad: Telangana chief minister Revanth Reddy on Monday, July 8, announced that a new ‘Skill’ university will be established soon. He ordered officials to make arrangements on ‘war footing’ and also asked…
Telangana

Telangana defections: BRS getting a taste of its own medicine

Hyderabad: Ever since its loss to the Congress in last year’s Assembly elections, the K Chandrashekar Rao (KCR)-led Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has been losing its legislators to the grand old party.…

Hyderabad

Hyderabad: Authorities finally build Baadhshahi Ashoorkhana’s boundary wall

Hyderabad: After years of fighting for its protection, the state government has finally begun erecting a boundary wall for the protection of the historic Baadshahi Ashoorkhana, which is a house of mourning…
Hyderabad

Muharram: Hyderabad Shia Muslim leaders still wait for police bandobust

Hyderabad: Leaders from the Shia community are worried as the city police has reportedly not yet made bandobust arrangements for Muharram (the first month of the Islamic calendar) which starts from July…
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Naidu to discuss appointment of new TDP Telangana president

Hyderabad: Will the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) once again be revived in Telangana? TDP supremo and Andhra Pradesh chief minister, who is coming to Hyderabad for official purposes on Friday evening, is…
Telangana

KTR condemns removal of Telangana govt sites built by BRS regime

Hyderabad: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president and former IT minister KT Rama Rao (KTR) raised “serious concerns” regarding the alleged removal of certain Telangana government websites that were created during the…
Hyderabad

Hyderabad: Powers of Disaster Management dept increased; renamed HYDRA

Hyderabad: Telangana chief minister A Revanth Reddy on Monday, July 1, decided to entrust more responsibilities to the Disaster Management department under the Greater Hyderabad limits. The department will also be rechristened…
Hyderabad

Hyderabad: Murders in Old City spark discussion of political instability

Hyderabad: Over the last few weeks, one after another, violent murders have taken place in the city, mostly in the Old City areas of Hyderabad. Not only has this caused a serious…
Hyderabad

Remembering Syed Abdul Rahim, Hyderabad’s legendary football coach

Hyderabad: When one thinks of football, India, let alone Hyderabad, does not usually come to mind. This is why exactly why many would be surprised to know that in the post-independence period,…
Telangana

NAPM writes to Telangana CM on police surveillance, seeks review

Hyderabad: The National Alliance for People’s Movement (NAPM) has demanded the Telangana government to have necessary protocols be placed to stop illegal use of large surveillance infrastructures with oversight on every request…