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Dear Reader Anybody who is either presently attending or has already attended Jamia in the past knows that Jamia is one of the most vibrant and happening universities in India. It has a large student population with dozens of departments and centers of learning. The combination of the two has built an ecosystem that is brimming with creative energy. Everywhere ...

[Following is Jamia press release dated Dec. 10, 2012]  The Society for Participatory Research in Asia (SPRI) in collaboration with the Department of Social Work, Jamia Millia Islamia organized the launch of UNESCO Chair on community-based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education and a symposium on this theme on December 10, 2012. The purpose of the event was to ...

[Following is a press release by the Entrepreneurship Club – JMI received on Dec. 3, 2012] According to the 2012 Report of the Planning Commission, India has to create approximately 10 to 12 million jobs every year. So keeping this in mind Jamia Millia Islmia (JMI) has formally launched an Entrepreneurship Club (E-Club) on 27th Nov.2012. The launch took place ...

According to news reports, on Nov. 29,  a 16-year-old girl walked into a police station and reported that she was held prisoner in a flat in Defence Colony for two months, and was repeatedly raped by a bunch of young men, out of which she supposedly accused six by name. Providing more detail to the story, newspapers reported that three ...

Dr. K.R. Narayanan Centre for Dalit and Minorities Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, on Friday, November 30, organised the 6th Dr. K. R. Narayanan Memorial lecture on “Democracy in Exile: The Case of Tibet”. The lecture was delivered by Honourable Sikyong (Prime Minister), Dr. Lobsang Sangay, Central Tibetan Administration (Government-in-Exile), Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh in the Edward Said Hall. (Link to Audio) ...

After a week-long of murder and mayhem by Israel, it agreed to a cease-fire with Hamas in Gaza on Wednesday Nov. 21. However, in that week-long of attacks on Gaza, Israel attacked and killed 162 Palestinians, including 42 children, 11 women and 18 elderly people. In all 1,222 have so far been listed as injured, more than half of them ...

[Following is a Jamia press release dated Nov 22, 2012] Jamia Millia Islamia held its Annual Convocation today i.e. on November 22, 2012 at 3 PM in the Lawns of Dr. M.A. Ansari Auditorium, Jamia Millia Islamia. Lt. Gen. (Retd.) M A Zaki, Chancellor, Jamia Millia Islamia presided over the Annual Convocation. The convocation began with the singing of the ...

In a special felicitation ceremony held in the engineering faculty auditorium on Friday Nov. 16, Jamia recognized and congratulated a team of eight mechanical engineering students who had won first place in a national automotive design competition called SAE Efficycle, which is organized under the aegis of  Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), a prestigious international engineering society. The competition carried ...

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 ...

If you live in the jungle and if you’re a deer, what would you do to avoid being feasted upon by the tiger? You would make peace with it, right? That is exactly what most celebrities had been doing with the late tiger of Maharashtra — Balasaheb Thackeray. Only a certain kind of pugnacity can spark a complete surrender of ...