Jamia student, Avani Kaushal, in the Faculty of Law, JMI won a cash prize of Rs.100,000 for Best Speaker in the Amity International Criminal Law Moot Court Competition organized by the Amity Law School II, Amity University from February 22-24th 2014. The Jamia team comprising: Avani Kaushal, Akanksha Bahuguna, and Sana Wasim were also declared First Runner-ups in the competition, which carried ...
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Jamia Invites President Pranab Mukherjee and HRD Minister Smriti Irani for 2014 Convocation
Jamia Millia Islamia shall be holding its Annual Convocation-2014 on November 17, 2014 at 12.30 P.M. at Bhopal Ground, Jamia Sports Complex, Jamia Millia Islamia. Shri Pranab Mukherjee, President of India will deliver the Convocation Address. Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani, Hon’ble Minister of Human Resource Development will be the Guest of Honour on this occasion. Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Mohammad Ahmed ...
Read More »Scorecard: Politics of Love – 1; Politics of Hate – 0
Communal Tensions starting from Uttar Pradesh via Haryana And Maharashtra have reached Delhi, making a brief stay at Trilokpuri then teetering to the other areas of capital, like Bawana and now Okhla. During the wee hours of Wednesday morning, when the imam of a mosque in JJ colony, Madanpur Khadar of Okhla region, opened it for morning prayers, a slaughtered ...
Read More »Jamia Pays Tribute to the Memory of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad with a Statue
The greatest tribute to Maulana Abul Kalam Azad’s memories and contributions would be to expand the frontiers of knowledge, observed Prof. Talat Ahmad, Vice-Chancellor, Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI). Unveiling Maulana Azad’s statue in the construction yard of Faculty of Architecture & Ekistics, JMI on ‘National Education Day’ that is being celebrated across India on November 11, he described Maulana Azad ...
Read More »Sunil R. Parekh Delivers Lecture on “Integrating Innovation in our Lives”
Mr. Sunil R. Parekh, Advisor, Zydus Cadilla, Founder Curator, World Economic Forum, Geneva delivered a Lecture on “Integrating Innovation in our Lives” organized by the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) today i.e. November 10, 2014 in the Auditorium of Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Jamia Millia Islamia. The purpose of the lecture was to encourage and motivate students to ...
Read More »Kiss of Defiance
We at Jamia Journal normally don’t talk about student political activism taking place in other universities. We think, we at Jamia already have enough of our own absence of political activism to not talk about; so why burden ourselves with other people’s politics. But we make an exception to the rule when we think an issue transcends a particular college ...
Read More »Is Loyalty a Virtue?
— By: Farah Khalid Loyalty is defined as having complete and constant support for someone or something. We, as college students come across various situations where we have a categorical participation. Often we have mass bunks, protests and other group activities. Is supporting or being unconditionally loyal to such groups really a virtue? Loyalty towards one’s friends and family can ...
Read More »Does Jamia Millia Islamia Encourage Innovation and Entrepreneurship Among Students?
It was only recently when we received an event invite for a lecture on the topic “Integrating Innovation in Our Lives” from the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, did we learn Jamia has a Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Jamia has had an Entrepreneurship Club for a few years now, but apparently now it also has a center for it. ...
Read More »Jamia Hamdard V-C Dr. G.N. Qazi Delivers First C.V. Raman Memorial Lecture
Delivering Jamia Millia Islamia’s first C.V. Raman Memorial Lecture, Dr. G.N. Qazi, Vice-Chancellor, Hamdard University fore-grounded the philosophy of health and introduced the diverse paradigms in respect of medical and health care. Addressing an audience that comprised of teaching faculty, research scholar and students, Dr. Qazi made an exposition of Complementary and Alternate Medicine (CAM) and emphasized that it needed ...
Read More »Architecture Student Yusra Ansari Wins Rs. 30,000 in a National Design Competition
Yusra Ansari, a fifth year Jamia student of architecture, was recently declared second prize winner of the prestigious Landscape Foundation Students Design Competition 2014 titled “Seen-Unseen” organized by the Landscape Foundation of India. The second place prize also carried with it a cash prize of Rs. 30,000. The competition required students to think of a random physical backdrop which they think has ...
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