The Outreach Programme and India Arab Culture Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia are going to hold a ‘Protest March’ against Israel’s War on Gaza and in solidarity with the People of Palestine. The Protest March will begin at 2 PM on Friday, November 23, 2012 from Jamia’s Main Campus Gate (Near Mirza Ghalib Statue) and will go through the campus and ...

According to a hostel resident in Jamia, who wishes to remain unnamed for fear of reprisal, the Jamia administration on Tuesday, November 20, has fined and suspended a few students for taking part in a protest against mess fee hike, that took place on-campus, on September 27. According to a student who took part in the protest, about 250 students, ...

[Jamia press release Nov 20, 2012] The Faculty of Architecture & Ekistics, Jamia Millia Islamia is going to organize a Seminar and Exhibition on “Black Taj: Myths and Manifestation” from November 21-24, 2012. This event is an attempt to explore the knowledge gap on the subject of the Black Taj Mahal. Also, various aspects of the art, architecture, sociology, brand ...

[Following is a Jamia press release dated Nov 20, 2012] Jamia Millia Islamia shall be holding its Annual Convocation on November 22, 2012 at 3 PM in the Lawns of Dr. M.A. Ansari Auditorium, Jamia Millia Islamia.   For the first time the university will be streaming a video of the proceedings of the convocation live on jamia’s website www.jmi.ac.in. ...

Nearly four years after Israel’s military aggression on Gaza that killed 1400 Palestinians and left the infrastructure of Gaza in ruins, Israel is once again attacking Gaza with the full might of its military. The latest aggression, euphemistically termed as Operation Pillar of Defense by the Israelis, has seen the Israeli Defense Forces bombard Gaza causing scores of fatalities that ...

Gaza has been under attack since Wednesday, when Israel launched a military offensive with the declared goal of deterring Gaza fighters from launching rockets into its territory. Gaza is a tiny territory where 1.7 million Palestinians, most of whom are refugees, are denied the right to return to their homes simply because they are not Jewish. Forty-eight Palestinians, about half of ...

The Centre for European and Latin American Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia in collaboration with Embassy of Colombia, in the series of Symposia on Latin American  Studies, is going to organize a symposium on “Colombia: Contemporary Affairs”. Professor Sonya S. Gupta, Director of the Centre, will deliver Introductory Remarks on this occasion. Following are the details of the Lectures to be ...

[Following is a Jamia press release dated November 15, 2012]  The Centre for European and Latin American Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia is organizing a series of Extension Lectures on “Culture, Intellectuals and Nationalism”. Under this Extension Lecture Series, the first lecture was organized on November 14, 2012 on “Theorising Nationalism: Herder to Benedict Anderson” by Ashley Tellis. Following are the ...

The Department of Mechanical Engineering, Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) is going to felicitate a team of B.Tech. (Mech.) students who designed, developed and fabricated an “HYBRID ELECTRIC RICKSHAW” under the Banner of Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), JMI. The team had bagged the First Prize and also achieved Durability Award & Cash Prize of Rs.1.3 Lakhs in SAE EFFICYCLE ’12 ...

The Department of History and Culture, Faculty of Humanities and Languages, Jamia Millia Islamia is going to organize a Lecture on “The Museumised Cityscape of Mysore” by Prof. Janki Nair. The lecture is based on a chapter from her recently published book called Mysore Modern: Rethinking the Region under Princely Rule. Prof. Janki Nair teaches History at the Centre for ...