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Tablighi Jamaat takes centre stage in Okhla civic poll 2022 As election campaign for the MCD elections 2022 picks up across Delhi, opposition candidates be it Congress or AIMIM they all are raising the issue of Tablighi Jamaat in Muslim-dominated Okhla to corner AAP candidates. While addressing a gathering in Okhla on Wednesday, Congress candidate from Abul Fazal Enclave-Shaheen Bagh Areeba Khan raised the issue of Tablighi Jamaat saying the markaz was targeted by the Arvind Kejriwal Government during Covid time. She said a respectable personality Tablighi chief Maulan Saad too was not sparred and a column was added while…

AIMIM star campaigner Imtyaz Jaleel is coming to Okhla today to drum up support for party candidates. Writing about Arif Saifi wrote in Hindi. आज शाम बाद मग़रिब नमाज़ के बाद शेर-ए-महाराष्ट्र सांसद जनाब इम्तियाज जलील साहब आपके वार्ड 188 में तशरीफ़ ला रहे है। पहले 6 बजे शाम ओखला विहार, शाहिन बाग़ होते हुए अबुल फजल में पहुचेंगे जहाँ K Block अबुल फजल हाई-टेन्शन खम्बे पर जलसा को खिताब करेगें। आप सभी से गुज़ारिश है की अपनी Bike लेकर शाम 6 बजे तिकोना पार्क पर मिले। इंशाअल्लाह Bike रैली के साथ सांसद इम्तियाज भाई के साथ अबुल फजल जलसे…

MCD poll 2022: Ground report from Batla House, Zakir Nagar It is election time and leaders aspiring to become your representatives are busy trying to impress upon the voters with their supporters. All across Delhi, political parties are busy with their campaign. To gauge the mood of the voters, the OT team interacts with local residents to get their view of point and understand which party is at the forefront of the election 2022. https://youtu.be/_5b94yxEfWA Residents of Zakir Nagar and Batla House too expressed their views and discussed in details area’s most burning issues. With the ward being reserved for…

4 students arrested for beating pregnant dog to death in Okhla According to police, it has succeeded in arrested four students of Don Bosco Technical Institute in Okhla for allegedly killing a pregnant street dog to death. These students were arrested on Tuesday. The reason for killing the dog given by accused to police is that the animal used to bark at them whenever they used to play cricket on the institute’s ground. And it was this that used to make them angry. The accused have been identified as Avinash Minj (24), a resident Khanpur here, Anish Horhoriya (18), a…

Leaders in Okhla these days are busy winning hearts and minds of voters and in their enthusiasm they have been accused of going overdrive. https://youtu.be/QiP2pz1SCoc Some residents said leaders need to maintain balance and avoid bombarding the area with posters, banners and high-pitched campaign. Naeem said a day ago his namaz was spoiled when a vehicle with high pitched music was being played just outside the mosque. Residents appealed to leaders to avoid such things and stop putting posters on walls and houses. During election time local leaders dreaming to become representative spent huge amounts on advertisements. A resident said…

Athar Khan, a resident of Okhla, is the new Joint Secretary of AMU Old Boys’ Association Aligarh (parent body) which is based in AMU, according to Javed Iqbal Khan, a resident of Okhla and AMU alumnus. https://twitter.com/theokhlatimes/status/1594991520276709377

The OT impact: Leading newspaper removes story after fact-check of location over pregnant street dog’s killing After the OT fact-check of location over street dog’s horrific killing by students in Delhi, India’s leading national daily has updated the story and added New Friends Colony as location where the incident took place. Earlier, in its another report in the first paragraph, the TOI had mentioned the incident of happening in Zakir Nagar. While clicking on the earlier TOI report link from mobile, this message is coming: “The page not found.” Fact-check: Pregnant bitch beaten to death in Zakir Nagar? After receiving…

Residents’ opinion: Will Owaisi party spoil game of other candidates in AFE-Shaheen Bagh? As election is picking up with parties reaching voters to win their hearts and minds and everybody focusing on politicians, the OT team is moving in the area to gauge public mood. In one such interaction with some residents at a popular tea shop in Abul Fazal Enclave, the OT spoke with a few people. https://youtu.be/hMsoapPPwbY The interaction which lasted for more than 20 minutes saw residents talking about major issues with one resident saying: “We tested Congress and AAP and both of them have failed miserably…

Jamia Prof Khalid’s book, translated from Urdu by Baran wins 2022 JCB Prize for literature  The Paradise of Food by Khalid Jawed translated by Baran Farooqi, published by Juggernaut, was announced the winner of the 25-lakh- JCB Prize for Literature, at the Oberoi, New Delhi. The winner was announced by Lord Bamford, Chairman, JCB, virtually, during the hybrid event, where the trophy was handed over to the winning author by Sunil Khurana, Chief Operating Officer, JCB India and AS Panneerselvan, Chair of Jury for 2022. A bildungsroman of a man (and society) where food triggers memory and tragedy The Paradise…

Watch: Will Amanatullah-Wajid handshake ruin Asif Khan’s political revival chance? Staying in political hibernation for years after defeat at the hands of AAP’s Amanatullah Khan and not getting Congress ticket last time in the MLA election, Asif Md Khan got a chance to revive his political career after he succeeded in getting ticket for his daughter Areeba Khan for the MCD poll 2022. https://youtu.be/B00HjRsUskE After shaking hands with his years’ long foe Congress leader Parvez Hashmi, Asif further brightened his daughter’s political prospects in election battle. But within hours of his sipping tea with Hashmi, Asif had another surprise in…