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Winners of Jamia’s “Innovate for a Cause’’ Competition Announced

Winners of Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE), Jamia Millia Islamia's “Innovate for a Cause’’ Competition; Wednesday, March 18, 2015 [Photo By Farheen Nilofar/Via Ashar Javed; Jamia Journal]

Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE), Jamia Millia Islamia, conducted the final round of ‘Innovate For a Cause’ competition on 18th March 2015. The competition was aimed at developing ideas which would solve a social problem and were evaluated for the social value, the expected results, feasibility and originality. Out of the 20 odd teams who submitted their proposal, 8 ...

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Dr. Sughra Mehdi (1937 – 2014): Jamia Urdu Professor, Writer Extraordinaire

Prof. Sughra Mehdi (8 Aug. 1937 - 17 March 2014)

A fiction writer, an academician, a women’s rights activist, a noble soul and what not; these are the superfine elements that comprise the eminent personality of Professor Sughra Mehdi,  lovingly known as Shughra Aapa in Jamia community and among her near and dear ones. Those who have a slight acquaintance with the historical and cultural background of Jamia must be ...

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Students Islamic Organization Protests to Demand Students Union at Jamia

The Students Islamic Organization (SIO) organised a protest in front of the vice-chancellor's office gate at Jamia Millia Islamia Wednesday, March 18, 2015, demanding the restoration of student union elections. (Photo Courtesy SIO)

The Students Islamic Organization (SIO) organised a protest in front of the vice-chancellor’s office gate at Jamia Millia Islamia Wednesday, March 18, 2015, demanding the restoration of students union at Jamia Millia Islamia. In a written statement, SIO National Secretary Thouseef Madikeri said: “SIO demands in the interest of the University in general and student community in particular that the ...

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Jamia Student Activists Behind #PadsAgainstSexism Campaign Go Public

Jamia Millia Islamia student activists behind #PadsAgainstSexism Campaign (L-R) Mohit, Sameera, Kaainat, and Mejaz, on Jamia campus. (Photo: Jamia Journal)

Jamia Millia Islamia student activists behind the #PadsAgainstSexism campaign have finally decided to shed their cloak of anonymity and reveal their identities to the world. Mejaz, Kaainat, Mohit, and Sameera, all four students of social science at Jamia, have released a joint statement to the press Tuesday, March 17, revealing their names along with their reasons for going public after ...

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Message from Elonë Kastratia to Jamia on #PadsAgainstSexism Campaign

Jamia Journal has received a short video message from Elonë Kastratia in Germany — the founder of ‪#‎PadsAgainstSexism‬ Campaign — to the students of Jamia Millia Islamia in solidarity. Transcript of her video message: “Hello Jamia. This is Elona from Germany. I am happy to hear that my message went even to your university in Delhi. I am even more ...

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Jamia Students Stick Sanitary Pads with Feminist Messages on Campus

In an effort to raise awareness about rape and sexism, a group of Jamia students, who wish to remain anonymous, are sticking sanitary pads with feminist messages on them, all across Jamia campus. Some of the messages read: “Period blood is not impure, your thoughts are.” “Menstruation is natural, rape is not.” “Streets of Delhi belong to women too.” “Rapists ...

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Univ. Teachers Discuss Diminishing Role of Teachers in Education System

National Convention on “Higher Education at Crossroads” held at the Ansari Auditorium, JMI; March 3, 2015 (Photo Courtesy JMI / Jamia Journal)

Critiquing the new liberal ideology that informed higher education system in the country, Prof. Krishna Kumar, an eminent educationist, bemoaned the crisis faced by the university system and said that ‘teacher’ as an ‘idea’ stood compromised. Speaking at the National Convention on “Higher Education at Crossroads” today [March 3, 2015] at Jamia Millia Islamia Prof. Krishna Kumar underlined the foreclosing ...

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Prof. N.R. Farooqi, VC Univ. of Allahabad, Delivers Dr. M. A. Ansari Memorial Lecture

Prof. N. R. Farooqi, Officiating Vice-Chancellor, University of Allahabad, speaking at Edward Saeed hall, Jamia Millia Islamia; Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015 (Photo Courtesy JMI / Jamia Journal)

The Department of History and Culture, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, today [Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015] organized the XXXIIIrd Dr. M. A. Ansari Memorial on “An Overview of Ottoman Archival Sources and their Relevance for Medieval Indian History”. The lecture was delivered by Prof. N. R. Farooqi, Officiating Vice-Chancellor, University of Allahabad, at Edward Saeed hall, Jamia Millia Islamia. The lecture ...

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Jamia Organizes its Maiden ‘Exhibition of Innovators’

“Exhibition of Innovators” in the Polytechnic Park, JMI; Jan. 28, 2015 (Photo: Jamia Journal)

Jamia Millia Islamia added another first to its academic profile – an “Exhibition of Innovators”. Prof. Talat Ahmad, Vice-Chancellor, Jamia Millia Islamia inaugurated an “Exhibition of Innovators”  in the Polytechnic Park [on Jan. 28, 2015] that was organized to encourage students and faculty to think on innovative lines for creation of innovative products that could be used by people at ...

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Jamia Annual Techno-Cultural Fest ENCONMIUM XV Begins

The three-day Annual Techno-Cultural Fest “ENCONMIUM XV” was inaugurated by Prof. Talat Ahmad, Vice-Chancellor, Jamia Millia Islamia at the Faculty of Engineering and Technology, JMI; Feb. 13, 2015 (Photo courtesy JMI)

The three-day Annual Techno-Cultural Fest “ENCONMIUM XV” was inaugurated today by Prof. Talat Ahmad, Vice-Chancellor, Jamia Millia Islamia. The annual festival, organized by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Jamia Millia Islamia every year, is the largest techno-fest organized in Jamia Millia Islamia that involves both technological and cultural events. In his inaugural address, the Vice-Chancellor, Jamia Millia Islamia ...

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