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[Editor’s note: Following is a Jamia press release.] Jamia Millia Islamia held a ‘Special Convocation’ on December 16, 2011 at 3 PM in Dr. M.A. Ansari Auditorium, Jamia Millia Islamia to confer the degree of ‘Doctor of Letters’ (Honoris Causa) on Prof. Amartya Sen. Mr. Najeeb Jung, Vice-Chancellor, Jamia Millia Islamia presided over the ‘Special Convocation’.   The citation presented ...

The Jamia Cultural Committee in collaboration with the British High Commission had organized a Jamia-wide essay writing competition on the theme, “What are the ties that bind in a multicultural society?” on November 21, 2011. The names of the winners (one female and one male) on the basis of the essay writing competition and oral presentation were announced in a ...

In a two-day long seminar organized by the Department of Political Science, titled “Human Rights & Social Inclusion: Contemporary Concerns,” notable journalist and the managing editor of the weekly news magazine Tehelka, Shoma Chaudhary, delivered a lecture titled “Blowing Bubbles, and Living in them” on Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011 at the Dayar-e-Mir Taqi Mir building. She talked about human rights, ...

The department of English conducted a discussion on the topic, “The Semiotics of Literary Discourse,” on Friday, November 17, 2011. The keynote speaker was Mr. H.S. Gill, professor emeritus in the School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). About the Speaker Prof. H.S. Gill first started teaching in Punjab University, Patiala in 1968. Then ...

[Following is an official Jamia press release.] It is a matter of immense pride and honour for Jamia Millia Islamia that one of the research papers by Prof. Mohammad Sami at the Centre for Theoretical Physics, Jamia Millia Islamia, written in collaboration with Edmund J Copeland and Shinji Tsujikawa, has been included in the Nobel Prize Committee Document, 2011. The ...

Introduction On October 14-15, 2011, South Africa hosted the 5th India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) Academic Forum at the Durban University of Technology in Durban, South Africa. This year, I, Khalid Jaleel, from the Department of Political Science, had the honor of representing India at the forum as the only student delegate. Following is a report on what took place at the ...

[Note: Following is an official Jamia press release.] Jamia Millia Islamia has begun a new academic initiative to give fillip to research on campus. The university has launched an ‘Interdisciplinary Discussion Group’ which will begin its activities starting this Monday i.e. October 24, 2011. The ‘Interdisciplinary Discussion Group’ is conceived with the idea of bringing faculty and students’ research on ...

Human Rights Forum, Department of Political Science organized a lecture on the topic “Conflicts and Rights in South Asia” by Meenakshi Ganguly on Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011. Ms. Ganguly is the South Asia Director for the eminent human rights organization, Human Rights Watch. Speaking about Human Rights Watch, Ms. Ganguly said, “Human Rights Watch operates in about 90 countries. It ...

A discussion on the issues concerning the Palestinian territory was held at the Dyar-e-Mir Taqi Mir on Wednesday, October 19, 2011. The discussion was part of a two day event titled “Revisiting Palestine” organized by the Outreach Programme, Jamia Millia Islamia, dealing with the appalling conditions in the occupied historical land of Palestine. The event was packed with films screening, ...

On the 24th and the 25th of September, a 2-day workshop on “Android OS based Application Development” was held in the faculty of engineering and technology.   The session was organized by the Computer Society of India Student Chapter in collaboration with ARK Technosolutions, a Mumbai based company which imparts training to professionals and students in the fields of mobile ...