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SIO launched ‘Save the Internet’ Campaign in Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi on Saturday, 18th April 2015. National President of the Students’ Islamic Organisation of India (SIO), Iqbal Hussain said that Net Neutrality – the principle that all data should be treated equally on the Internet, is something that we should not compromise on. He called the attempts to thwart Net ...

Jamia Teachers Solidarity Association (JTSA) and Jamia Teachers’ Association (JTA) organized a public meeting on the topic, “State Violence and the (Im)possibility of Justice Lessons from Hashimpura,” at the JTA office, JMI on Tuesday, April 7, 2015. [Listen to the complete session here.] Speakers for the event were Advocate Ms. Rebecca John, lawyer for the Hashimpura victims; Mr. V.N.Rai (Retd. IPS); Prof. ...

Students of the first graduating batch (batch of 2013-15) of M.A. in Visual Effects and Animation course at AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia organized an exhibit titled, “Drawing Room,” which showcased their work produced over the past two years of their course, held at the Animation Lab, AJK-MCRC, on Friday, 10 April 2015. The exhibit included, about 40 ...

Jamia Students Participate in the “Come See the Blood on My Skirt” March at DUThe #PadsAgainstSexism campaign in Delhi, which started in Jamia on March 12th has now turned into a full-blown city-wide student movement with the campaign reaching the campuses of Jawaharlal Nehru University and Delhi University. On Friday, April 10th, student activists from all the three universities came ...

Lately, a few of my female friends have complained of a disturbing phenomenon encountered while searching for a job. At the final stage of the selection process, they were asked if they would remove their hijab (a scarf that a female wears to cover her head) at workplace. Their response was a firm no. Later, they received a letter of ...

French language students of the Centre for European & Latin American Studies, JMI took part in the recently held National Seminar on Francophone Studies on 17th March 2015 at the Centre for French & Francophone Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Students of Certificate, Diploma and Advanced Diploma in French attended this program with their professors Mr. Faizullah Khan, Mrs. Maitree Verma ...

On his way to Jamia in a DTC AC bus on Sunday, March 29, Asif Iqbal, a Jamia student of engineering, was brutally attacked and badly injured by a pickpocket wielding a razor blade, in broad daylight in a bus full of people. According to Asif, he got on the bus at Saket on Sunday, sometime around 5:30 p.m to ...

The second talk in the series of lectures on the theme: “People, Politics and Ideology” was organized by the Department of Political Science in collaboration with Jamia Discussion Forum by Dr. Sanjeev Kumar, Associate Professor, Deshbandhu College, New Dellhi on the topic: “Saffronization of Education,” on  March 23, 2015 With the recent change of ‘nizam’ at the Centre and subsequent attempts ...

On Thursday, March 26th, Afghan  students of Jamia Millia Islamia organized a demonstration and candle-light vigil on-campus in memory of Farkhunda, a 27-year-old Afghan girl who was killed by a mob in Kabul a week ago on March 19th. Saeeda Shirzad, an Afghan student Jamia Journal spoke to about the demonstration, said: “The manner in which she (Farkhunda) was killed ...

All that a House Sparrow needs today is a house to live in. The State Bird of Delhi is endangered given to the harmful cellular tower radiations, chemical gardening, unleaded petrol and lack of food (insects) and modernized architecture. To give voice to this dwindling bird population, students of M.A. Development Communication, AJK MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia initiated a ‘Save ...