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Muslims should not get up and declare they are not terrorists every time there is a terrorist activity. You (Muslims) don’t have to adopt this attitude. These views were emphatically expressed by Justice (Retd.) Rajinder Sachar. He was speaking at the valedictory session of a two-day long national seminar on “Human Rights and Good Governance in India and West Asia” ...

Jamia Millia Islamia in collaboration with the Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India organized the 6th Meeting of the Project Appraisal and Monitoring Committee (PAMC) November 19 & 20, 2014 to look into new proposals related to Geosciences. The meet which saw the coming together of India’s finest Geologists and Earth Scientists considered new science proposals, examined deliverables and ...

Taking strong exception to sections of the media for playing the role of “cheerleaders” in Modi’s campaign for prime minister, one of India’s iconic TV journalists, Rajdeep Sardesai said that it was the media that made Modi the man he is today. Sardesai was speaking at a book launch organized by Penguin Books India in collaboration with the MMAJ Academy ...

Department of Political Science, JMI organized a lecture by Dr. Sanjeev Kumar, professor in the Department of International Relations, South Asian University, Delhi on the topic: “India-Pakistan Relations and Sub-continental Security” at the Department Seminar Hall on Nov. 11, 2014. Dr. Kumar began his lecture by stating that the topic of India-Pakistan relations is a popular one. “This is a topic”, ...

Centre for Afghanistan Studies of the Academy of International Studies (AIS), Jamia Millia Islamia organized a talk on “Democratic Transition in Afghanistan, Institution-Building and Prospects for Stability” on Tuesday, 11 November, 2014 at Mir Anis Hall, Dayar-e-Mir Taqi Mir, JMI. Afghanistan is a very important country in our neghbourhood which does not receive the attention that it should, said Dr. ...

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 ...

The Department of Psychology, Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) organized a two-day National Seminar on “Health and Wellbeing: Recent Developments and Challenges” from November 12 & 13, 2014 with the purpose of addressing various aspects of health and wellbeing in the contemporary context. Several issues were addressed, deliberated and discussed on the state of health and wellbeing in light of recent ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...