Hyderabad  

India's first IKEA store was welcomed by people, with arms and wallets wide open. The store received an overwhelming response on its first day as the total footfall stood at 40,000 and the store earned a whopping Rs 2.4 Cr.

Hyderabad's citizens were so elated with Ikea opening in their city that virtually everyone ended up going to HITEC City

IKEA plans to open 25 stores in India by 2025. It says it currently employs 950 people and plans to hire another 15,000 as it expands operations.

Here are the facts which you must know about this new opening
 

IKEA the Swedish furnishing giant is opening its first store in Hyderabad, today. It is going to be a huge 4 lakh sq ft store spread over an area of a 13-acre complex.

Vadodara’s Dhyey Sankalp Gandhi and Jishnu Basavaraju from Hyderabad won gold medals while Delhi’s Sanchit Agarwal and Aayush Kadam from Neemuch, Madhya Pradesh, won silver.

The gang has been accused of cheating around 150 unemployed youth by promising employment in central and State government departments

Two schoolgirls died after the roof of their school collapsed, also leaving five students severely injured in Kukatpally, Hyderabad.

11 girls rescued from brothels after they were injected with growth hormones in Telangana 

Saha is officially out with a bad shoulder; he will need surgery in the United Kingdom; the BCCI had, on May 28, said that Saha had injured his thumb while playing for Sunrisers Hyderabad in the IPL and hence would miss a number of matches

VHP and Bajrang Dal staged a road blockade in Hyderabad against Telangana government demanding that they stop such 'anti-Hindu practices'