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Delhi feels earthquake tremors for 2nd time in 5 days, did you feel it in Okhla? Earthquake of 5.9 magnitude jolts Afghanistan; tremors felt in Delhi, according to media report. “An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 on the Richter Scale hit 79km South of Fayzabad, Afghanistan at 7:55 pm today,” National Centre for Seismology said. Earlier, an earthquake of magnitude 3.8 on the Richter scale hit Delhi-NCR in the early hours of Sunday (New Year night), according to National Center for Seismology (NCS). NCS is the nodal agency of the Government of India for monitoring earthquake activity in the…
Police issue statement on ex-MLA Asif arrest. It said: “On 04-01-23 at 2 pm, Police officials of Shaheen bagh were checking the CCTV cameras in Nai Basti area regarding an incident of MV Theft. “Asif Mohammad Khan came on the spot and started misbehaving with the police staff. Accordingly, a case U/S 186,353,341,153 A IPC has been registered at PS Shaheen Bagh and accused Asif Mohd Khan was arrested. Thereafter, he has been sent to 14 days judicial custody by order of the court.” ALSO WATCH ARIBA ON ARREST https://youtu.be/tebnGI9GM1U
Update on former Okhla MLA Asif arrested on Wednesday from his Kalindi Kunj house. According to lawyer Mohd Areeb Hasan, who was present in the court, Asif has been sent to 14 days judicial custody. https://youtu.be/tebnGI9GM1U Areeb said they will apply for bail soon as decision on this will be taken by the team tonight. The official statement for Asif arrest is yet to come but the buzz is he was arrested hours after altercation with the cop. After the OT ran a report on Wednesday about his arrest, AAP leader Saud Khan commented that Asif was again arrested for…
Okhla netizens cry tears of happiness over Haldwani After the Supreme Court halted Uttarakhand eviction drive in Haldwani on Thursday on Railway land, many Okhla netizens have posted about it and praised the development. https://youtu.be/LtsE2F0jt9Y Congress leader Advocated Aarfa Khanam did FB live on the SC’s verdict saying the verdict has brought a sigh of relief for some “50,000 residents of Haldwani” who have been holding sits-in for days. Many wrote that it is a big relief for many people who faced the prospect of being left homeless in the middle of the harsh North Indian winter. “There cannot be…
Ex-Cong MLA Asif Md Khan arrested, according to Congress Councillor Ariba Khan. She said he was taken by police a few minutes ago. AAP worker Saud Khan said he had misbehaved with police today again and was arrested a few minutes ago. Ariba said my Dad had gone to Nai Basti where some “illegal construction” is going on and he objected to it and then there was altercation with cops. DEVELOPING STORY
Another missing person case surfaces, this time a girl from Okhla Head A family in Okhla has been looking for her missing daughter since December 31. “Huma Begum was last seen at her Okhla Gaun Home on December 31, 2022 and since then she has gone missing,” said a resident, a family member of the missing girl. Huma’s father Masrurul Haque said her daughter is mentally not sound and is 39 years old. “It was on December 31 when she stepped out of the house at 9.30 am. Since that day we have been looking for her and visited houses…
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…