11 March 2016: In the first week of March, postgraduate students from Nelson Mandela Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution (NM-CPCR), JMI undertook a field trip to Ranchi to study the phenomenon of Naxalism in Jharkhand. Under the guidance of Prof. Sujit Dutta, a faculty member in NM-CPCR, the national workshop at Ranchi University saw the participation of anthropologists, IPS ...

The Subject Association, Department of Architecture, Jamia Millia Islamia, celebrated its Annual Fest, Fenestration, from 3rd to 5th  March, 2016. The first day of the fest was celebrated as the “Habib Rahman Memorial lecture series”, Habib Rehman being one of the great visionaries of India who laid the foundation of the architectural vocabulary of independent India, by playing a pivotal ...

Speaking on “Gender and Democratization of Higher Education” eminent feminist scholar Mary E. John emphasized on the implementation of the Saksham Committee Guidelines by all universities. “The University Grants Commission (UGC) has sent a letter to all the universities asking them to implement the Saksham Guidelines and the universities should be adopting them” said the Senior Fellow at Centre of ...

While Jamia Millia Islamia has started the practice of holding democratic elections for mess and cultural committees in the boys hostel once again, the administration, however, has chosen to discriminate against the residents of the girls hostel and unabashedly decided to not hold any elections for the same committees in the girls hostel. The practice of conducting elections for mess ...

Faculty of Law, Jamia Millia Islamia in collaboration with National Commission for Women had organised a two day National Legal Awareness Programme on the 10th and 11th of October, 2015 at the Municipal Corporation School located in Batla House, New Delhi. During the Legal Awareness Programme, quite a number of women from adjoining localities participated in the aforementioned programme overwhelmingly. ...

Oct. 9, 2015: Jamia Millia Islamia students and faculty members held a silent candlelight march Friday on campus in protest against the communal lynching of Mohammed Akhlaq in Dadri, U.P. The silent march started and concluded at the central library, where students along with Dean Students Welfare, Prof. Tasneem Meenai, observed a two-minutes silence.

According to a news article published in the Indian Express, dated Sept. 19, Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) has informed the Delhi Women’s Commission (DCW) in a letter that: “Jamia Millia Islamia is in the process of revisiting the extant guidelines in various respects to uphold gender equity on the campus.” Jamia’s letter to the DCW was in response to a ...

Sept. 18, 2015: Unhappy with the quality of the canteen food and a hike in canteen food prices, an impromptu protest by a few students turned into a major protest by hundreds of students at Jamia Millia Islamia, Friday. Protesting students alleged, on condition of anonymity, that the quality of the food has been awful for years now, which students ...

Electronics Alumni Association-JMI organized their second alumni meet on Sept. 13, 2015 in Engineering auditorium, Jamia Millia Islamia. The auditorium was packed with a crowd of more than 300 including 15 entrepreneur alumni and more than 100 alumni who hold respectful positions in government sectors and multinational companies. The second alumni meet began with a recitation from the Holy Quran. This ...

Cruelty to animals is a serious offense. There can be no justification for hurting a defenseless animal just because its presence in your surrounding annoys you. Therefore, we are happy to see this attached notice issued by the Registrar’s office, which was spotted on the notice board of Department of English recently, basically telling students to be kind to dogs ...