In the southern city of Hyderabad, a Hindu woman is also running for election.
The second Test of the India-Australia series is due to start in Hyderabad on 2 March.
The strike follows clashes between pro-Telangana activists and police in the state capital Hyderabad on Sunday.
There was a mixed response to the strike in Hyderabad city, says the BBC's Omer Farooq.
By comparison, Hyderabad, the former home of the nawabs (Indian princes), is a backwater.
Hyderabad has something else going for it: Nara Chandrababu Naidu, Andhra Pradesh's ambitious chief minister.
Hyderabad is also famous throughout the subcontinent for biryanis, or rice-based dishes of Persian origin.
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These were stored in the fortress at nearby Golconda, seven miles west of Hyderabad.
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In a statement issued in Hyderabad, Mirza said pre-marital sex could not be justified.
Security has been tightened at Sania Mirza's bungalow in the upmarket Banjara Hills area of Hyderabad.
The storeowner outside Hyderabad chatted happily with the pair of inquisitive economists for two hours.
The threadbare inventory the authors discovered in the village store outside Hyderabad is only one example.
Based in Hyderabad, the capital of Andhra Pradesh, the organization has a 75-year history of community service.
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So maybe you should brush up on your Hindi (and your English) and move to Hyderabad, Gene.
By Indian standards, however, all of Hyderabad is fairly new, the city having been founded in 1591.
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Businesses were closed down across other cities in the Sindh province, especially Hyderabad, Sukkur, Khairpur and Larkana.
"The tools to solve this problem are the same everywhere, " says Raghavendra Rao of Hyderabad-based Satyam Com-puters.
The Lonely Planet travel guide puts Derry fourth, behind San Francisco, Amsterdam, and the Indian city of Hyderabad.
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Etihad Airways currently flies to nine Indian destinations including the major cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Bangalore.
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The Indian school of business in Hyderabad opened its doors in 2001 with a class of 128 students.
Mr Naidu was regarded as an IT guru who turned the state capital, Hyderabad, into a cyber centre.
The mother of four, 39, from Hyderabad, was employed in three London households as a nanny and domestic worker.
The Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami party said it withdrew its candidates in Karachi and the southern city of Hyderabad in protest.
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It once belonged to the royal family of Hyderabad, rulers of one of the wealthiest provinces of Mughal India.
The Board XI made Australia toil in the first innings in Hyderabad by amassing 455 to the tourists' 314.
The second match of the five-game series takes place in Hyderabad on Thursday.
Hyderabad-based GVK, controlled by Indian billionaire GV Krishna Reddy, owns airports, power plants and other infrastructure projects in India.
Four Islamic radicals are on trial in Hyderabad for Pearl's abduction and killing.
Now one of the most vibrant and rapidly developing cities, Hyderabad was until the early 1990s a sleepy little town.
When they set up shop in India, most computer companies opt for Bangalore, 500 kilometers south of Hyderabad (see map).
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