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JMI Professor Mohd. Zahid Ashraf receives prestigious Visitor’s Award by Hon’ble President of India Jamia Professor Mohd. Zahid Ashraf, Head, Department of Biotechnology received the prestigious Visitor’s Award 2020 by President Shri Ram Nath Kovind today in an impressive award ceremony before the Visitor’s Conference 2022 at the Rashtrapati Bhavan which was attended by JMI Vice Chancellor, Prof. Najma Akhtar too. Prof. Ashraf received the award for his pioneering research on resolving the mystery of blood clotting on exposure to hypoxia at high altitudes. He received a citation and Rs.2,50,000/- as award money. Prof. Ashraf was conferred this award under…

Fire broke out at the electric motor parking at Tikona Park in Jamia Nagar on Wednesday early morning, according to residents. No loss of life was reported from the spot till the filing of the report. However, vehicles were damaged and parked e-rickshaws gutted leading to huge loss to the owners. https://youtu.be/UyD4sp8UJBc Fire was doused as fire brigade reached the spot. Syed Izhar head of ETO Okhla parking where the fire broke out a few hours ago told the OT that the incident occurred at 4.30 am and no loss of life has been reported yet. https://twitter.com/theokhlatimes/status/1534414408507850752 E-rickshaws parked there…

Jamia Chief Proctor Khan gets top additional responsibility on campus Chief Proctor Waseem Ahmad Khan has got top additional responsibility in Jamia Millia Islamia. https://twitter.com/theokhlatimes/status/1534213851327213570 In a latest development, the university notice mentioned: “Consequent upon the above, Jamia has appointed Professor Waseem Ahmad Khan department of Teacher Training and non-formal education, as director games and sports.” It is expected that Khan, who has been handling university affairs for years will add some new dimension to games and sports at Jamia after becoming its director. University sources said after being appointed Chief Proctor in July, 2019, he has led from the…

Media & gender: How Muslim women represented 2011 to 2021 is the disaster for not only economy and health system but also for the data. The fundamental question is whether data exist and is it usable. We do not know the population of the country, do not know data about consumption, expenditure and we don’t know when will census happens. This is a serious issue”. Prof. Amitabh Kundu, Senior Economist, expressed these views today at Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU) in the first panel discussion of the conference “Gender and Inclusion: a focus on Muslim Women” Prof. Amir Ullah…

Okhla reels under severe heatwave, mercury soars in Delhi Okhla residents got up in the morning to hot weather with mercury soaring in Delhi for the last many days. The national capital is in the grip of heat wave with the mercury staying above the 45-degree Celsius mark in many areas of the national Capital on Monday. https://twitter.com/theokhlatimes/status/1534089251314634754 At the Safdarjung Observatory, Delhi’s base station, the maximum temperature settled at 43.5 degrees Celsius as against 44.2 degrees Celsius on Sunday and 43.9 on Saturday. Najafgarh was the hottest place in Delhi with the maximum temperature settling at 46.4 degrees, five…

Park for children and women, RWA’s gift for AFE residents on World Environment Day On the occasion of World Environment Day, several plantation drives and other events were held across the country and in Okhla too some residents planted trees. In Abul Fazal Encalve, the residents deprived of any open space got a gift from the RWA: An exclusive children and women park. “After four months of hard work, we inaugurated a park for children and women in Abul Fazal Enclave very close to the AFE D-block RWA office,” said team RWA. Photos and videos surfaced on the social media…

Days gone, Tikona Park tilted electric pole, uprooted trees by thunderstorm yet to be fixed UPDATE: The Tikona Park tilted electric pole has been fixed, inform residents. It was a week ago when Delhi was hit by thunderstorm and rain. Okhla and Jamia too felt the heat as several trees were uprooted. Some electric poles were also tilted by the thunderstorm. Now, with days gone, residents wonder when they will be fixed. https://twitter.com/theokhlatimes/status/1533810868777254912 https://youtu.be/ay14wjul0J8 Okhla-based artist and painter Mohd Saquib said after seeing the pole hanging for days he tried his art on one OT photo. “One week ago, I…

JTA felicitates UPSC topper Shruti, distributes scholarship cheques to 308 Jamia students Jamia Teachers’ Association (JTA) felicitated UPSC Civil Services Examination 2021 1st rank holder Shruti Sharma at an impressive function on Monday in the auditorium of the Faculty of Engineering & Technology, Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI). https://youtu.be/AR_jEAAlyak Shruti prepared for the exam from the Residential Coaching Academy (RCA) of the university. This year 23 candidates, including Shruti, cleared UPSC Civil Services Examinations from RCA, Jamia. Since 2011, Jamia’s RCA has become premier nursery for civil servants in the country. JMI Vice Chancellor Prof. Najma Akhtar, Registrar Prof. Nazim Husain…

UPSC topper Shruti breaks silence on mushrooming fake accounts in her name on social media Fake accounts on social media are a menace these days. And when it is floated in  name of celebrities or role models then netizens face problem in dealing with which one is right or wrong. The case in point is surfacing of several fake accounts on social media hours after Shruti Sharma of Delhi topped the UPSC exams. Within a day, such fake accounts were pointed out by netizens and then followed up by several publications busting fake news. However on Monday during her visit…

Watch: UPSC topper Shruti talks about her mesmirising journey at Jamia Shruti Sharma, who visited Jamia Millia Islamia days after cracking UPSC ranking first all India, gets a rapturous welcome at Engineering Auditorium where large number of students gathered to see her and clapped as she talked about her mesmirising UPSC journey. https://youtu.be/NB8eso8lZ1w Shruti, an alumnus of JNU and Stephens’, prepared for UPSC at Jamia’s RCA coaching centre which over years has turned up into India’s topnotch centre to churn out civil servants year after year. https://twitter.com/theokhlatimes/status/1533717083938521089 While addressing the auditorium packed gathering, including students and university faculty members, at…