Heritage
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Hyderabad: Residency Building restored, open for public soon
Hyderabad: The British Residency Building, situated in the Koti Women’s College premises, has been finally restored to its past glory. On Thursday, a memorandum of understanding was signed by four parties, including…
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Hyderabad: HMDA begins survey of Khajaguda rocks for fencing
Hyderabad: The civic authorities have finally begun surveying the Khajaguda heritage rock site, to figure out its boundary. The Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) in all likelihood will fence the site, which…
- Hyderabad
Destruction of heritage: Khusro Manzil finally bites the dust
Hyderabad: After many years of being chipped away part-by-part, Khusro Mazil, a heritage structure, was finally torn down on Thursday night. The demolition that began in 2013 has now finished, leaving a…
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Hyderabad: Mutawalli of Saidanima’s tomb sacked for forging documents
Hyderabad: The Telangana State Waqf Board (TSWB) here on Tuesday removed Syed Mohammed Ali Khan (son of Syed Ifteqar Ali Khan) as the Mutawalli (caretaker) of the Maqbara (mausoleum) Abdul Haq, popularly…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: FIR against 4 for destruction at Khajaguda rock site
Hyderabad: The Telangana government has suspended a Village Revenue Assistant (VRA) after it was found that four persons had encroached and destroyed rocks at the historic Khajaguda rock site. Municipal Administration and…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Destruction of rocks at Khajaguda continues under HMDA’s nose
Hyderabad: The Anantha Padmanabha Swamy temple trust (which is near the Khajaguda rocks) started the construction of a borewell in the wee hours of the night, resulting in more destruction at the…
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Raymond’s Tomb: Hyderabad’s last French connection gets facelift
Hyderabad: After years of neglect, the tomb of Monsieur Raymond, who was the last French commander in the city, is finally getting a much needed facelift. While the structure has largely been…
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Post Independence, new construction took place only for few families from Delhi: PM Modi
Ahmedabad: In a veiled attack on the Congress, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that after Independence, new construction took place only for a “few families from Delhi”, but his government…
