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[Following is a Jamia press release dated Oct 31, 2012] Jamia Millia Islamia celebrated its 92nd Foundation Day on October 29, 2012. The Foundation Day celebrations came to an end on the 30th with a performance by a visiting group of Whirling Dervishes from Turkey called “Konya Turkish Tasawwuf Music Ensemble” who performed on October 30, 2012 at 6.30 PM in Safdar Hashmi Ampitheatre, ...

[Following is a Jamia press release dated Oct 30, 2012, which has been edited to eliminate redundancy with the previous press release.]  Jamia Millia Islamia celebrated its 92nd Foundation Day on October 29, 2012. As part of the celebration of Jamia’s foundation day, a Sufiana Kalam was offered by Ustad Zila Khan in the evening on the 29th of October. Mr. ...

[Following is a Jamia press release dated, Oct 29, 2012]  Jamia Millia Islamia celebrated its 92nd Foundation Day on October 29, 2012. The Foundation Day celebrations started at 9.30 AM outside the M.A. Ansari Auditorium, Jamia Millia Islamia where the Chief Guest Mr. I.M. Kadri, a renowned Architect and an alumnus of Jamia Millia Islamia and Mr. Najeeb Jung, Vice-Chancellor, ...

For the first time, the Subject Association of MMAJ Academy of International Studies, held a “Student-Faculty Interaction Programme” on Friday, Oct. 12, 2012. The programme was semi-academic in nature and was attended by a good number of teaching and non-teaching staff and M Phil and PhD students. Dr. Shri Prakash, a senior professor and former honorary director of the Academy ...

Jamia Millia Islamia and ‘Citizens for Justice and Peace’ are jointly organizing a series of programmes on the 2002 Gujarat genocide titled “Memorial to a Genocide: Gulberg Gujarat 2002-2012” that are being held from October 9 till 13 on campus. The programmes include a Photo Retrospective, Statistics, Missing Person’s Wall, Acknowledgements and Survivor’s Conversations among other things. On Tuesday, Oct. ...

Strategic partnerships, educational exchange programmes and better trade and economic relations are the things that Australia is looking forward to, to strengthen its ties with India. These views were expressed by Mr Peter Verghese, the Australian High Commissioner to India, in a talk titled “Australia-India Relations in the Asian Century,” at Dayar-e Mir Taqi Mir on Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012. ...

With a view to let people have a first-hand account of the 2002 Gujarat riots through a conversation with the survivors of Naroda Patiya and Gulberg societies of Gujarat, the Jamia Teachers’ Solidarity Association (JTSA) in collaboration with Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) today organised a discussion titled “The Long Road to Justice” in the Mir Taqi Mir Building. ...

Against the backdrop of crisis in the North East, Jamia Millia Islamia’s Centre for North East Studies, the Sarojini Naidu Centre for Women’s Studies, and the Department of Political Science collaborated to organize a Peace Walk on-campus for “Sensitization & Awareness of Human Rights in the North East of India,” on Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012. The peace walk marked the ...

The Nelson Mandela Centre for Peace & Conflict Resolution (NMCPCR) organised a two-day national conference on “Central India: Towards Conflict Resolution” at the Mir Taqi Mir Building on Wednesday, Sept. 26, and at the Edward Said Hall on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. Guest speakers on Day 1 included K Srinivas Reddy of  The Hindu; Dr PV Ramana, Institute for Defense ...

(Following is a Jamia press release dated Sept 27, 2012)  The Faculty of Dentistry, Jamia Millia Islamia celebrated International Day of the Girl Child on September 24, 2012 by organizing various activities throughout the day. On this occasion, a Dental Check-up and Treatment Camp for school girls was conducted and a Girl Child Awareness Booth to educate the patients about ...