Author: theokhlatimes

Tomato price sees sharp rise in Okhla With the arrival of monsoon, the price of tomato in Delhi, including, has soared. Residents are buying it for Rs 60 and 70 per kilogram depending on its quality. Throwing light on the rise in price of tomato, an Abul Fazal Enclave-based shopkeeper said due to monsoon less tomatoes are coming in mandi and now whatever is available is from Shimla. However, media reports attribute to rise in price of tomato to crop failure due to rain and later landing on the vegetable in the mandis. Residents recalled that how a month ago…

Expedite developmental works, say newly elected Gahlot, Tulsi in SDMC Rajdutt Gahlot was on Monday elected to the post of Standing Committee Chairman in SDMC. He was congratulated by Deputy Mayor Subash Bhadana, Leader of House Narendra Chawla and a large number of councillors, including standing Committee Members in the presence of BJP MP Pravesh Verma. Gahlot said he will try to fulfil the expectations of citizens of SDMC and expedite all the developmental works pending due to corona pandemic. He will focus on desilting of drains and prevention and control of water related diseases. Gehlot said focus would be…

More ICU beds for better treatment of critical patients, fewer deaths: Govt CM Arvind Kejriwal and Dy CM Manish Sisodia on Monday visited the Rajiv Gandhi Super Specialty Hospital to review the preparedness of the hospital to treat the COVID patients . As the city observes a steady increase in the number of Corona cases, the Delhi govt has ramped up the installation of ICU beds in RGSS hospital from 45 to 200, and in LNJP hospital from 60 to 180, which are both COVID dedicated hospitals in Delhi. Kejriwal said more ICU beds will ensure higher treatment of critical…

Cases in Delhi have reached 1 lakh, but there is no need to panic as recovery rate is 72%: Kejriwal Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday said the recovery rate of Delhi has gone up to 72 per cent, and more and more people are recovering from COVID-19 on a daily basis. There has been a considerable dip in the positivity ratio and the death rate in Delhi. Addressing an online press briefing in Delhi, Kejriwal said: “In the last three months, the total number of Corona patients in Delhi has reached approximately 1 lakh. But there is no need…

Delhi Corona App now has authorized helpline numbers for each hospital. The Delhi government received a lot of complaints from the citizens that the phone numbers of these hospitals stay unreachable most of the time. Taking cognisance of these complaints Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia who is also handling the additional portfolio of the health minister directed all the COVID hospitals of Delhi to make authorised helpline numbers to deal with COVID related queries. Now all these hospitals have come out with 24X7 available authorised helpline numbers; all these numbers are available at the…

ICU beds in Delhi Govt Covid hospitals see a steady rise: City Govt In a bid to ramp up the medical infrastructure in Delhi’s fight against Covid-19, Delhi government has ensured a steady increase the number of ICU beds in its Covid hospitals. A few days back, Arvind Kejriwal had said additional ICU beds would come up at Lok Nayak, Guru Teg Bahadur, and Rajiv Gandhi Super Specialty hospitals. After a sustained push by CM and under the daily supervision of Health Minister, the number of ICU beds has increased three fold from 60 to 180 in Lok Nayak Jai…

Turkish TV drama Ertugrul enthralls some Okhlaiites A few months ago talks about watching Turkish drama in Okhla could have been termed as madness and nothing else as residents don’t know the language. But things changed with the Turkish historical TV drama Dirilis Ertugrul (Ertugrul’s Resurrection) set in the 13th century being dubbed in Urdu, finding place on the social media. Since then, many Okhla residents have been not only talking about the drama but also watching it on the social media. A few days ago three people of different ages were seen talking about the drama at a local…

After series of tremors, SDMC gets cracking, issues notices to 30 to building owners The SDMC while intensifying its action has issued 30 more notices to residential group housing societies, educational institutions, and schools and asking them to submit a structure audit report within 30 days to ensure seismic stability for the buildings, it said. “The building owners are responding to the notices and 6 owners have already started the process of engaging structural consultant and consulting the engineers of SDMC. Thus so far SDMC identified 103 such buildings and issued notices to them In addition to this, the SDMC…

Is Okhla AAP MLA Amanatullah to return as Wakf Board chief soon? AAP Okhla MLA Amanatullah Khan is likely to return to Delhi Wakf Board (DWB) as its chairman, according to newindianexpress.com. Since words spread in the locality a few days ago quoting reports in the media that a file pertaining to his appointment to the board as its member had already been cleared about 10 days ago, chances are that Khan will be again back as Wakf Board chairman, however, there is no confirmation from the AAP. OT could not reach Khan to know about the latest development of…

Noida-based YouTuber journey: From zero to 10 L subscribers to Rs 8 L investment Noida-based journalist turned YouTuber Shakeel Ahmad has come a long way vis-a-vis his channel in the virtual world. In December 2016 when he launched his YouTube channel after resigning from his job, he had no idea that in nearly four years time he would succeed in captivating 10 lakh people, who are subscribers to his channel, and will be honoured by Google video platform giant YouTube. “It was historic moment for me when I got invite from YouTube very recently which honoured me with the gold…