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A two-day national seminar on “Making Democratic Governance Work: Reinventing Public Delivery Systems in India” was organized by the Department of Political Science at the FTK-CIT seminar hall on 5th and 6th of November, 2013. Delegates and participants from various universities across India and other countries presented their papers highlighting the current paradigms in the discourse. In his inaugural speech, ...

[Following is a press release from the Subject Association, Department of Social Work, JMI] Identify the issue, enrich your understanding, mobilize the people and take action on the issue is the theoretical approach to social activism; however, presently a different and an exemplary approach of social action is being taken by a social activist by the name of Jazeera V.M. ...

[Following is a press release from Jamia’s Go-kart Team — ‘KARTastrophe’] Indian Society of New Era Engineers (ISNEE) conducted the nationwide event, National Go-Kart Championship (NGKC) this year in Kolhapur, Maharashtra. The event saw participation from engineering colleges from all over India, with a pre-final round that shortlisted a total of 47 teams that qualified for the final round. The ...

The Department of Political Science organized a workshop on “Qualitative Research Methods” by Professor Samuel Wineburg, Stanford University, USA on Wednesday, October 30, 2013. Listen to the two-hour long session here:

The Department of Political Science, Jamia Millia Islamia, in collaboration with Aspen Institute India organized a special lecture on the topic, “Rise Of China In The Global Order: Perspectives From US & India,” by Prof. James Mann, the author of, “The China Fantasy” and Author-in-Residence at Johns Hopkins University, USA, on Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013. [Audio Link] Addressing students in ...

[Following is an official Jamia press release dated Oct. 11, 2013] It is a matter of great pride and pleasure that the students of Jamia Millia Islamia have won two major Moot Court Competitions held recently. Jamia won First Prize in the National Moot Court Competition held at FYLC Ranka Law College, Rajasthan University last month. The follwing students of Jamia ...

[Following information been provided by Zahid Anwar, vice-president, subject Association, Department of Islamic Studies, JMI.] The Subject Association, Department of Islamic Studies conducted a “Naat Khwani competition on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013.  Many students from various departments of the university participated. Competition Results: First: Wahajuddin, (B.A. 3rd sem. Deptt. of Urdu) and Tabassum Hasan. (M.A. 1st sem Deptt. of Islamic ...

In August,  Muzaffarnagar, a district in western Uttar Pradesh, experienced violent communal clashes between Hindu and Muslim communities, eventually leading to one of the worst riots in India in recent history. It is in the wake of this gripping communal violence, that the Department of Sociology, in collaboration with ‘Aman Ekta Manch’ — a citizen initiative — organized a lecture ...

The Department of Political Science, Jamia Millia Islamia, organized a special lecture on “Public Administration in South Asia” on Thursday, October 03, 2013 by Dr. Meghna Sabharwal, School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas, USA. [Audio Link] Dr. Sabharwal spoke on a wide range of issues confronting public administration in the South Asian region, which ...

According to Zahid Anwar, vice-president, Subject Association, Deptartment of Islamic Studies, JMI, the Department of Islamic Studies conducted a lecture by Professor Ishtiyaque Danish, Department of Islamic Studies, Jamia Hamdard, on the topic “Islam and Pluralism”  on Friday, Oct. 4, 2013. In attendance were Professor Razi Ahmad Kamal, Dr. Mufti Mushtak Tijarwi, teachers and students of the department.