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Watch: How to offer Eid namaz at home, explains Mufti Ahmad As Muslims get ready to celebrate Eid amid pandemic restrictions for the second year in a row many may offer namaz at home for safety reasons. THEOKHLATIMES NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT. DONATE RS 100, 500, 1K OR MORE TO SUSTAIN LOCAL REPORTING: JUST CLICK TO PAY Muslim clerics have urged people to act in accordance with the present times and observe a private Eid this year. “Over four lakh people have been infected with the virus and almost 3,000 people are dying per day. There are no beds, medicines and…

Watch: Sabki Eid 2021 drive kicks off in Shaheen Bagh Some Shaheen Bagh activists have kick-started Sabki Eid 2021 drive, said activist Sharib Hassan. THEOKHLATIMES NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT. DONATE RS 100, 500, 1K OR MORE TO SUSTAIN LOCAL REPORTING: JUST CLICK TO PAY The purpose of the drive is to make sure that every resident in Okhla get enough food on Eid and hence our Sewa team is circulating vermicelli (sewai), milk, sugar and biscuits. Eid is to be celebrated on Friday after crescent moon was sighted on Thursday evening. This is second year in a row that Eid is…

Eid-ul-Fitr 2021: Moon sighted in Okhla, India to celebrate Eid on Friday amid Covid restrictions for 2nd year in a row. THEOKHLATIMES NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT. DONATE RS 100, 500, 1K OR MORE TO SUSTAIN LOCAL REPORTING: JUST CLICK TO PAY Moon was sighted in Okhla and other places across India. Following which Eid will be celebrated on Friday and this is going to be for second year in a row that the festivities will be held amid Covid restrictions. Okhla resident Ershad Ahmed said following the Islamic tradition, he with his family members climbed their rooftops to sight the crescent…

Eagle stuck in strings rescued by youths in Abul Fazal Enclave An eagle struggling to free itself from the string was rescued by some youths at Jamaat campus in Abul Fazal Enclave a few hours ago. THEOKHLATIMES NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT. DONATE RS 100, 500, 1K OR MORE TO SUSTAIN LOCAL REPORTING: JUST CLICK TO PAY “The bird was sitting in one place for the last two days. So today we approached it and on a closer look we saw that it was stuck with strings. “To get friendly with it, we offered it water and then we put cloth on…

After 30 loose motions a day, Dr Anwarul Haque has been hospitalised to Holy Family Hospital. THEOKHLATIMES NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT. DONATE RS 100, 500, 1K OR MORE TO SUSTAIN LOCAL REPORTING: JUST CLICK TO PAY He said he is waiting for Covid report as doctors have doubt of Covid. “Today is third day and RT-PCR report is yet to come. Today I am feeling better. Two days were worst as I had 25 to 30 loose motion,” he said. Dr Anwarul is director of Batla House-based Dynamic English coaching institute. He is very popular with his students as they flooded…

Al Shifa’s Covid Field Hospital in Okhla thrown open to public Covid Field Hospital under Alshifa Multispeciality Hospital in Jamia Nagar, run by Human Welfare Trust was officially launched on Wednesday at 5.45 pm. WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT TO SURVIVE. DONATE RS 100, 500, 1K OR MORE TO SAVE COMMUNITY JOURNALISM: JUST CLICK TO PAY The Field Hospital is being organised in collation with Aster Volunteers, the CSR arm of UAE-based Aster DM Healthcare and this will function at The Scholar School in Jamia Nagar, Delhi, run by Human Welfare Foundation, said the body in a release issued to the…

Crescent moon not sighted, Eid ul Fitr 2021 on Friday, residents told to offer namz at home As crescent moon was not sighted in India, Eid ul Fitr 2021 will be held on Friday, according to media reports sighting Shahi Ahmed Bukhari. WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT TO SURVIVE. DONATE RS 100, 500, 1K OR MORE TO SAVE COMMUNITY JOURNALISM: JUST CLICK TO PAY Shahi Imam Ahmed Bukhari announced Eid ul Fitr to be celebrated on Friday, May 14 as moon was not sighted on Wednesday. The development was followed after reports surfaced of moon not been sighted in Saudi Arabia.…

Watch: Jamia Nagar residents turn good Samaritans The second wave of Covid-19 has hit nation hard, including Okhla with many facing hardship. In Okhla though many have recovered from the infection but some even lost their near and dear ones from Covid. THEOKHLATIMES NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT. DONATE RS 100, 500, 1K OR MORE TO SUSTAIN LOCAL REPORTING: JUST CLICK TO PAY And in this time of crisis when many have been arrested across the country for black marketing Covid related items and cheating patients’ family members, some Jamia Nagar residents have come forward to help the needy. Pro Zakat Foundation-lead…

While I was fighting Covid my father breathed his last, couldn’t see him one last time: Journalist Arfa The Wire senior journalist Arfa Khanum Sherwani informed the world about the death of her father through Twitter a day ago. THEOKHLATIMES NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT. DONATE RS 100, 500, 1K OR MORE TO SUSTAIN LOCAL REPORTING: JUST CLICK TO PAY Azhar Md Khan, 79, was a resident of Zakir Nagar West and he died on May 3. “Many people are wrongly saying that he died of Covid. I think there was confusion. He was bed ridden for years and died a natural…

Jamia teachers’ body beigns fundraising for 50-bed Jamia hospital after staffers die of Covid, JTA secy Dr Irfan donates Rs 50K A teachers’ body of Jamia Millia Islamia released an appeal on Tuesday (May 11) for fundraising to build a 50-bed hospital on the campus. THEOKHLATIMES NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT. DONATE RS 100, 500, 1K OR MORE TO SUSTAIN LOCAL REPORTING: JUST CLICK TO PAY The very first contribution of rupees 50,000/- was made by JTA secretary Dr M Irfan Qureshi from his bank account through a cheque bearing the instrument number 953044/dated 11.05.2021 towards the creation of Jamia Hospital in…