Campus News

The Sarojini Naidu Centre for Women’s Studies in collaboration with the Delhi police conducted a two-week self-defence training workshop in the university gymnasium in which about 150 students from Jamia Girls Senior Secondary School participated. The workshop was held between Nov. 26 and Dec. 13. The director of the Women’s Studies Centre, Dr Bulbul Dhar-James, said the initiative is aimed ...

[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 ...

In an exceptional display of student solidarity, the residents of Jamia’s boys hostel on Thursday, Nov. 22, collected and donated Rs.9000 to help pay for the fines of about a dozen students who were fined Rs.3000 each by the Jamia administration for protesting and going on a hunger-strike against a mess fee hike they deemed unjust, in the month of ...

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 ...

According to a hostel resident in Jamia, who wishes to remain unnamed for fear of reprisal, the Jamia administration on Tuesday, November 20, has fined and suspended a few students for taking part in a protest against mess fee hike, that took place on-campus, on September 27. According to a student who took part in the protest, about 250 students, ...

The elections in the Boys’ hostels for the posts of Senior House Monitor and Food Monitor were contested on 4th November and the results were declared a short while later. The  elected candidates are as follows: Allama Iqbal Hostel: Senior House Monitor – Farique Mannan  (B.D.S) Food Monitor – Farooque Azam (B.Tech Computers) B.R. Ambedkar Hostel: Senior House Monitor – ...

The Department of Political Science organized an extension lecture by the former Chief Election Commissioner of India Dr. S.Y. Quraishi on “Governance and Democracy: Need for electoral reforms.” The lecture was held at the Dayar-e-Mir Taqi Mir Building, on Wednesday, 31 October 2012. [Link to Audio] Dr. Quraishi began his talk with the importance of governance in a democracy and ...