Campus News

[Following is an official Jamia press release dated July 4, 2013] Jamia Millia Islamia in collaboration with the International Summer School (ISS) Education Initiative and Ministry of Tourism through its Incredible India campaign has established the International Summer School at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi for the purpose of promoting international goodwill and cultural understanding at the level of young ...

Around 8 o’clock in the evening on Tuesday, May 7th, about 200 Jamia Polytechnic students gathered at the entrance to the Admin block, which leads to the vice-chancellor’s office, to protest against the tuition fee hike for the Diploma Engineering evening program. According to the students protesting at the scene, Jamia — without any notification — increased their tuition fee ...

[Following is a (slightly edited) press release sent by either Jamia Old Boys Association (JOBA) or SIMT (unknown acronym), received on April 13, 2013.] Today SIMT and Jamia Old Boys Association conducted an entrance test for the free coaching classes for SSC, Delhi Police, CTET and UGC-NET/JRF competitive examination in the old SRK Hostel in Jamia Millia Islamia. Coaching classes ...

The University Placement Cell and Entrepreneurship Club of Jamia Millia Islamia organized a Launch Ceremony of ICICI Trinity Programme on Innovation and Entrepreneurship on Thursday, April 4, 2013 at FTK-Centre for Information Technology. About ICICI Trinity Programme: This programme seeks to identify ideas, evaluate, groom, nurture and help turn them into successful business ventures. Apart from funding, the programme provides an ...

The Department Of Commerce and Business Studies formally released their department Placement e-Brochure at the Edward Said Hall on Thursday, March 21, 2013. The launch was for the digital or electronic brochure to promote the placement activities for the final year graduate and postgraduate students in Department Of Commerce and Business Studies. [Link to Brochure] The program began with the ...

Those of us who were here in Jamia during the 2010-2011 academic session, probably know that the M.F. Husain Art Gallery in Jamia was used as a backdrop in a Bollywood movie titled “Sadda-Adda,” which was released in 2012 [Link]. However, it is unlikely that the same people would know that in that same year, the M.F. Husain Art Gallery ...

On Tuesday, March 12th, the India Arab Cultural Center, Jamia Millia Islamia organized a talk by Sheikh Nasser Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Minister for Al-Diwan Al-Amiri Affairs, Kuwait. (Al-Diwan Al-Amiri are headquarters of the Amir of Kuwait.) Sheikh Al-Sabah is also the former Prime Minister of Kuwait serving a term from 2006 till 2011. He is the nephew of the ...

Jamia organized a student cycle rally from Himachal Pradesh to Delhi, officially named “Save Water, Save Earth”  to promote the environmental message of  water conservation. According to a Jamia press release, a group of 25 students (19 boys and 6 girls), along with a few others from the university, started the rally from Narkanda in Himachal Pradesh on February 19, ...

[Editor’s Note: Following reportage on the MiRAAS festival is courtesy the official MiRAAS blog run by students of Jamia. We reproduce it here as it is.]  Inauguration of MiRAAS Text by Wafia Kissa, Photos by Nabeel Khalid On, 26 February, Jamia Millia Islamia, inaugurated MiRAAS 2013, a three day inter university festival with grandeur. Mr Najeeb Jung, Vice Chancellor, presided over ...

As the size of the population with Internet connectivity grows in India, so does the power of social media. It has virtually empowered everybody to  speak out without any restrictions. And naturally, this new found power of the people have its backers and detractors. It is in this context, Anwar Jamal Kidwai Mass Communication and Research Centre (AJK-MCRC) organized a ...