On a day before the fourth anniversary of the 2008 Batla House “encounter,” Jamia Teachers’ Solidarity Association (JTSA) conducted a program at the FTK-CIT hall at Jamia to formally release a dossier detailing persecution of Muslims by the Delhi Police’s Special Cell in a report titled, “Framed, Damned, Acquitted: Dossiers of a ‘very’ special cell” on Tuesday, September 18, 2012. Speakers ...

Jamia Teachers’ Solidarity Association (JTSA) will formally release its report on the 2008 Batla House police encounter of two young residents of the Batla House area in Jamia Nagar. Event Details Report Title: Framed, Damned, Acquitted: Dossiers of a ‘Very’ Special Cell Speakers: Justice Rajender Sachar (retd.), Arundhati Roy, Mani Shankar Aiyar, N.D. Pancholi, Md. Amir Khan (Acquitted after 14 years), ...

What I narrate in this article is a personal story. Something that happened to me. On a Saturday afternoon, on September 15, 2012, I happened to be walking past the American Center at Connaught Place in Central Delhi with several of my friends. For those who don’t know, the American Center is sort of a cultural and education center run ...

After honoring Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, with an honorary doctorate in the year 2010, Jamia Millia Islamia once again welcomed him back on its premises to deliver a talk on “The Importance of Non-Violence and Ethical Values” at the Faculty of Engineering and Technology on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012. The program began with the recitation from the Holy ...

The Centre for European and Latin American Studies in collaboration with the Academy of International Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia and Institute of International Relations, University of Warsaw organized a symposium on the topic “Understanding Poland’s Role in Contemporary Europe” at the Academy of International Studies, on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012. The two speakers for the symposium were, Boguslaw Waldemar Zaleski, ...

Like many other wars, the eleven years old war in Afghanistan has also turned into an embarrassing defeat of the US-led combat forces but American leadership, both present and promising, still shamelessly vows to engage into many more armed conflicts. It was October 7th, 2001 when the United States along with its western allies launched a military offensive against the ...

(Following is a Jamia press release dated Sept. 10, 2012)  The Centre for European and Latin American Studies in collaboration with the Academy of International Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia and Institute of International Relations, University of Warsaw is organizing a symposium on “Understanding Poland’s Role in Contemporary Europe”. In this symposium Boguslaw Waldemar Zaleski, Academician and Former Deputy Foreign Minister ...

The Dalai Lama is scheduled to speak at the Faculty of Engineering and Technology on Wednesday, Sept. 12 at 3 p.m. His talk is titled “The Importance of Non-violence and Ethical Values.” The event is allegedly not open to all.

As the elections campaign season for the upcoming presidential elections between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney picks up in the United States, the Department of Political Science, in collaboration with the American Center, New Delhi, conducted a symposium titled “Panorama of 2012 US Election: Making Sense of it” to discuss the American political process, and to look at the race ...

Last month we were witness to a large number of people from the North-East crowding the railway stations at Bangalore and Chennai in a hurry to leave for their hometowns. Conflict in Assam had not only disrupted life in Assam, but had affected lives of people from the North-East residing in the rest of India. To understand the issue and ...