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To encourage cricket at the university level, NDTV and the Ministry of HRD have joined hands to  launch the Toyota University Cricket Championship (TUCC) starting 23rd February 2013. According to TUCC website, the tournament has been designed in a Twenty20 format, TUCC will reach more than 200 Universities and 20 lakh students across India. This initiative is backed by the Association ...

The Indian Republic appears to be at several junctures at the same time. The youth is questioning the status quo, and it seems that a potential ‘revolt’ is being bottled up. It is to unravel and take the lid off these bottled up sentiments that Author Pavan K. Varma spoke about in his book “Chanakya’s New Manifesto to Resolve The ...

As part of its “Writers at Jamia” initiative, the Department of English, JMI, welcomed writer Anjum Hasan on Wednesday February 13, 2013 for a reading and interactive session with the students. Anjum Hasan is the author of “Lunatic in my Head,” “Neti, Neti” and “Difficult Pleasures,” which has been shortlisted for The Hindu Literary Prize 2013. She is also a ...

The recent clash between the Egyptian police and angry protestors in Cairo marked the second anniversary of the Arab Spring in Egypt and the ousting of former President Hosni Mubarak. The clash demonstrated that the revolution did not provide the Egyptians with a good alternative. The event of the second anniversary of the revolution seems to be the right occasion ...

[Following is a Jamia press release dated Feb. 13, 2013] A Public Awareness Campaign by the Sarojini Naidu Centre for Women’s Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia was held on 13 February, 2013, from 2.30 – 4.30 P.M, at the Amphitheatre behind the Ansari auditorium, JMI. As a precursor to the global ONE BILLION RISING, a movement started by Eve Ensler, which ...

In what was clearly a show of protest, a group of few dozen students that mostly comprised students from Kashmir, along with a few others, offered Namaaz-e-Janaza (funeral prayers) for Afzal Guru after Dhuhr (afternoon) prayers in the lawns of Jamia’s Jama Masjid on Tuesday Feb. 12, 2013. The general sentiment among the students who took part in the funeral ...

On Friday Feb. 8th, the Academy of International Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, under its Pakistan Studies Programme, organized an interactive session with a delegation of 24 students and faculty from the Forman Christian College (FCC), Lahore, Pakistan. During the course of the interaction, the group, which has been on a tour of India starting 4th February, repeatedly expressed happiness and ...

The Zakir Hussain Institute of Islamic Studies (ZHIIS), Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) in collaboration with the Istanbul Foundation for Science and Culture (IFSC), Turkey started a three-day International Conference beginning Thursday 7th February 2013 on the theme of “Islam and Modernity: The Perspective of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi” here at Dr. M.A. Ansari Auditorium, JMI. A 20th century scholar, Said Nursi’s ...

On Thursday Feb. 7, the Department of Political Science organized a talk by Prof. Paul R. Brass titled, “‘Indira Gandhi Live: Interview and Discussion’ by Prof. Paul R. Brass with Indira Gandhi on 26 March 1978”. The session was chaired by Prof. Muhammed Badrul Alam, Head, Department of Political Science, JMI. An expert on South Asian politics, ethnic politics and ...

It was surprising to see an enthusiastic audience curiously turning up to hear about the recently much talked about Qadri phenomenon which disappeared as quickly as it appeared on television channels and newspapers across Pakistan, India and elsewhere. The talk on the “Qadri Phenomenon: Making Sense of Pakistani Politics” by Dr. Yaqoob Khan Bangash was organized under the Pakistan Studies Programme ...