[Following is a Jamia press release dated Oct 16, 2012] Pakistan Studies Programme, Academy of International Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia is going to organize a Talk on “Can the Judiciary Save Pakistan?” by Prof. Philip K Oldenburg from Columbia University, New York. The Talk shall be chaired by Ambassador T.C.A. Rangachari, Director of Academy of International Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia. ...

For the first time, the Subject Association of MMAJ Academy of International Studies, held a “Student-Faculty Interaction Programme” on Friday, Oct. 12, 2012. The programme was semi-academic in nature and was attended by a good number of teaching and non-teaching staff and M Phil and PhD students. Dr. Shri Prakash, a senior professor and former honorary director of the Academy ...

[Following is a statement from All India Students’ Association (AISA)] An Appeal to Save Jamia From: The Bulldozer Of Massive Fee Hike, Administrative Bullying Of Students and Denial of Students Union! Friends, Imagine a place where public places are under the constant surveillance of CCTV cameras; where private security ‘bulls’ patrol the grounds, to prevent public gatherings, pasting of posters, ...

According to a report in The Hindu titled “Notice to Jamia over denial of admission to student” dated Oct. 13, 2012, the Delhi High Court has issued a notice to Jamia on an appeal against a single bench order upholding the decision of the Vice-Chancellor to deny admission to Hamidur Rahman, a former Jamia student, in the M.A. Persian program. As ...

Jamia Millia Islamia and ‘Citizens for Justice and Peace’ are jointly organizing a series of programmes on the 2002 Gujarat genocide titled “Memorial to a Genocide: Gulberg Gujarat 2002-2012” that are being held from October 9 till 13 on campus. The programmes include a Photo Retrospective, Statistics, Missing Person’s Wall, Acknowledgements and Survivor’s Conversations among other things. On Tuesday, Oct. ...

According to an article titled “PTMs in DU: Hello, Military Camp!” dated Oct. 2 in Delhi University’s student newspaper, DU Beat, the DU administration has proposed to form a  “Parents Coordination Committee” to allegedly act as “mediators” between teachers and their college-going children. Again, according to DU Beat, this implies that if the committee is formed, Parent Teachers Meetings (PTM) will ...

Department of Political Science will be organizing an extension lecture by Professor Patrick Heller, Director, Graduate Programme in Development, Watson Institute for International Affairs & Professor of Sociology and International Studies, Brown University, USA, on the topic of “Indian Cities in Comparative Perspective” on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012 at 2 pm in the Seminar Room, Department of Political Science. The ...

(Following is a Jamia press release dated Oct 12, 2012) The English Literary Association of Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia is going to organize a three-day Literary Festival from 15th to 17th October, 2012 to commemorate the bicentenary of Charles Dickens and the Centenary of Saadat Hassan Manto – called the Pickwick Fest. The festival will provide a forum ...

Strategic partnerships, educational exchange programmes and better trade and economic relations are the things that Australia is looking forward to, to strengthen its ties with India. These views were expressed by Mr Peter Verghese, the Australian High Commissioner to India, in a talk titled “Australia-India Relations in the Asian Century,” at Dayar-e Mir Taqi Mir on Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012. ...

The challenge that India faces from Pakistan is real and existential in nature. The history of Indo-Pak relationship has always been that of war, deception and hatred. The discourse on this particular paradigm has always been of great relevance to the strategic and securities studies community in India. The course of events in both geopolitical and geo-economic front calls for ...