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Downfall of another Muslim body, Mushawarat bemoaned and ‘heavyweights to lightweights’ debate The downfall of another Muslim body, Okhla-headquartered All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat, also popularly known as Mushawrarat, is being bemoaned by some Muslim intellectuals in India and abroad. Established since 1964, the Muslim body for years was at the fore front of highlighting the challenges facing the Indian Muslims. But the infighting has weakened it, said a community watcher. Besides, the recently held presidential election triggered a debate among many that how the body which in the past had “bigwigs” as its president now has “nobody” contesting the election.…

Fact-Check: Did it really snow in Makkah’s Grand Mosque? Truth behind viral video shared by Okhla netizens here With Internet penetration increasing global incidents have local impact and vice versa with news travelling fast. However, this has created another problem of veracity of news as netizens and amateurish YouTubers and Facebook journalists are always in a hurry to share whatever they lay their hands at to get a few likes and viewership least bothered about copyright and running a fact-check. This is what exactly happened when a video surfaced showing snowfall in Masjid al-Haram in Saudi Arabia’s Makkah. The fake…

Watch: Okhla Vihar residents mourn on Jan 1, know reason New Year eve is the day for celebrations. But today some residents of Okhla Vihar were mourned at the garbage site to express their displeasure over poor roads for years and other burning issues. A day earlier, Okhla Vihar resident Javed, who backed Congress Councillor Ariba Khan during election time, told the OT that this is the first day of mourning and they will continue this daily until the roads are not fixed. https://youtu.be/6nKS7kRZQj8 It was hard for Javed to gather people as initially at 1.30 pm when the session…

Okhla sees mad rush of New Year revellers On the New Year, Okhla saw a huge rush of revellers.  Despite cold, a large number of residents, mostly girls and women in hijab, were seen at Metro Station, bus stands in Jamia Nagar in the morning going to their destination to celebrate the day with family and friends. Some even got stuck in huge traffic jam in other parts of Delhi. A resident, who gone out for some work, said he had never seen such traffic jam as Connaught Place and India Gate were jam packed where people had gathered to…

Earthquake hits Haryana on New Year’s eve, Delhi feels tremor: Did you feel in Okhla? “Earthquake of Magnitude: 3.8, Occurred on 01-01-2023, 01:19:42 IST, Lat: 28.71 and Long: 76.62, Depth: 5 Km, Location: 12km NNW of Jhajjar, Haryana,” said National Center for Seismology, reported the media. There were no reports of any injuries or damage. The National Center for Seismology (NCS) is the nodal agency of the Government of India for monitoring of earthquake activity in the country.

Called ‘thief, expelled’ from Mushawarat, Zafarul Khan sends defamation notice to Navaid Hamid Called thief, expelled from Mushawarat, Zafarul sends defamation notice to Navaid Hamid. Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan, former President, AIMMM, issued this statement to the media: “The former President of the All India Muslim Majlise Mushawarat (AIMMM) Mr Navaid Hamid crossed all limits in spreading lies and insinuations against me. Whenever he raised this concocted issue that the Mushawarat documents I painstakingly collected from umpteen source and that these are property of AIMMM, I clarified the actual position but he went on levelling those false accusations and finally used…

Mushawarat gets new president after election on Saturday. The result was announced after counting with Naved Hamid backed candidate Firoz Ahmed being declared the winner, said Zoha. https://twitter.com/theokhlatimes/status/1609231558401032192 Idrisi stood at second position. DEVELOPING STORY

Jamia wins North Zone Inter University Basketball trophy 2022. Prof. Waseem Ahmad Khan, Director, Games & Sports, JMI and Convener, said Team Jamia played well to win the championship. https://twitter.com/theokhlatimes/status/1608778604758052865 Jamia defeated Punjabi University, Patiala in the final round robin league match held today at the NMAK Pataudi Sports Complex, JMI. The university retained the title for the second time also with the victory as it has been the winner of the last two championships too. Kurukshetra University, Haryana, Punjab University, Chandigarh and Punjabi University, Patiala secured 2nd, 3rd and 4th position respectively. JMI Vice Chancellor Prof. Najma Akhtar…

Met with Jamaat head, discussed national issues for 1 hour: Amanatullah; Is JeIH cosying up with AAP? Okhla MLA Amanatullah Khan said he met with Jamaat-e-Islami (Hind) today. He tweeted several photos of the meeting with JeIH Amir and wrote in Hindi that he had discussions with them on national issues for about one hour. https://twitter.com/KhanAmanatullah/status/1608448998586880000 “आज अमीरे जमाअत ए इस्लामी हिंद से मुल्क की मौजूदा सूरते हाल और अक़्लियतों के मसाइल पर तक़रीबन 1 घंटे तक तफ़सीली बात चीत हुई ,इस मौक़े पर जमात के कई अहम मरकज़ी ज़िम्मेदाराना मौजूद रहे,” the MLA wrote. The meeting happened a day…

Watch: Sisodia visits Okhla landfill site, assures of speedy cleanup of garbage mountains Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, along with MCD Mayor Candidate Dr Shelly Oberoi and Deputy Mayor candidate Aaley Mohammed Iqbal, visited Okhla landfill site on Wednesday. https://youtu.be/6SU7tSpG4bg Together they inspected the ongoing work to flatten and eliminate the garbage mound at the site and understood the details of the process, said the statement. Flanked by officials at the site, the Deputy CM took a detailed assessment of the works going on at the landfill. He made several suggestions upon noticing some gaps in the projects and directed…