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Electric autos to start plying soon in Delhi, 33% quota for women drivers Delhi will soon see thousands of electric autos plying on its city roads. The computerised draw of lots was held today for allotment of 4261 E-autos and the Transport Department will soon start the process of issuance of Letter of Intent (LOI) to all successful applicants. The Supreme Court in a landmark decision on 11th February, 2022 had allowed the Delhi Government to resume the process of registration of 4261 e-autos in the capital, said the government. The scheme was earlier halted due to a lawsuit filed…

DSEU opens campuses for students The Delhi Skill and Entrepreneurship University started offline classes on Monday, 14th February 2021 in all its 15 campuses across Delhi. The University kickstarted the pioneer batch of students in December 2021, admitting 5000+ students across 15 Full-Time Diploma, 4 Part-Time Diploma, 12 Lateral Entry Diploma, 11 Flagship Degree programs, and Bachelors of Computer Engineering and Post Graduate Programmes. “Today is the day all of us at the university have been looking forward to since day1. Earlier in December when we held an orientation for the first academic year at DSEU, we waited to see…

International experts train Jamia MCRC students about human-wildlife conflict mitigation strategies Under its newly designed CBCS Course: Communication Strategies for Human-Wildlife Conflict Mitigation, AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, is taking help of national & international experts to train its students on the significance of media interventions in creating awareness on Human-Wildlife conflict. The Course is being conducted with the help of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). Dr Mala Narang Reddy, noted social anthropologist will be teaching students through a workshop on 19th, Feb 2022, how they may address people’s perceptions and social dimensions of Human Wildlife…

Work for building Shaheen Bagh Freedom Fighter Fountain in full swing Days after some BJP local leaders turned up at Shaheen Bagh to stop the work for Freedom Fighter Fountain at the spot claiming that it was a move to usurp government land by the AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan work for building the fountain is in full swing. MLA Khan’s supporters and AAP Councillor Wajid Khan had rubbished the allegation. The video of the report posted on the OT Facebook page on January 23 got 689K views with 312 comments and 5.7K likes. MLA Khan in a meeting in Zakir…

The Delhi government schools welcomed students of Nursery to Class 8 today after a gap of almost two years. To help students adjust in the school environment, Delhi Government’s Directorate of Education has asked all HoSs to focus on students’ social-emotional wellbeing in the first two weeks. Students will be encouraged to share their experiences freely and explore the new school environment. School closure for two years has widened the learning gaps among students, it had said. In such a situation, it is important that when they return back to school, teachers’ focus should be on supporting their social emotional…

Urgent missing appeal to find Okhla’s 12-year-old Shadab This is a 12-year-old Shadab Ansari, son of our house help and he has been missing for the last 5 days, wrote Syed Hassan Kazim on his timeline some four hours ago, sharing photo of the missing youth. “The FIR was filed yesterday in Jamia Nagar police station. Please share this post so that his distraught, wailing mother meets her son,” wrote Kazim, a journalist, who works with TOI and is a resident of Okhla.

Is ex-Okhla Cong MLA Parvez planning to launch his daughter-in-law in MCD polls? With the MCD polls 2022 not very far, political parties and local leaders have started to lay down their strategies to get ready for the big fight. Though the date of the MCD polls is yet to be announced, local leaders in Okhla have already started their campaign to win hearts and minds of voters and lay their claims to the party ticket. Of the long list of aspirants in Okhla the buzz in the locality is that former Okhla MLA from the Congress, Parvez Hashmi, is…

Free medical check-up camp by ECM Free medical check-up camp was organised on Sunday by Earth Care Mission at J/76/29, Ashiana Complex, T.N-4, Abul Fazal Enclave. “All the ECM members were present on this occasion to make the medical camp a success. Azhar Alam, M Hashmi and Athar Alam Advocates and Dr Rehan Badar, Dr Arfin and Engg. Hashmi, Parvez Farooqui and Parvez Akhtar and Imam of Masjid Noor and others were present. “Local residents got benefit from the camps,” said Hashmi.

Zero-waste event: Ahmed family holds marriage function in eco-friendly way After Ahmed family solemnised a marriage function in a completely eco-friendly way and ensured Zero-Waste coming out of the venue and all the SOPs for zero-waste wedding function were observed by the organisers at the venue, the SDMC said it congratulated the family for successfully organising a zero-waste event and inspiring others to follow the same. The civic body also appealed to all the residents to go for zero-waste functions. All the cooperation and support will be provided to the organisers such events, it said. In view of Swachh Survekshan-2022,…

Will contest under ex-Okhla Cong MLA Asif Md Khan’s patronage, says Advocate Aarfa Khanam after pitching her candidacy. Her husband shared a photo showing Asif Khan endorsing her candidacy. Aarfa is seeking Congress ticket from Abul Fazal Enclave ward for the 2022 civic poll. Even before the ward wad reserved, she had started her campaign. Unlike other candidates, she is contesting on her own. It has been noticed that men are accompanying their wives giving an impression of proxy, said Okhla watcher. Of them Advocate Aarfa Khanam is leading from the front and is doing all to win hearts and…