Campus News

[Editor’s Note: Portion of this report subtitled “Interview with the delegates” has been contributed by Khalid Jaleel.]  A seminar on “India, Bangladesh and South Asia” was conducted in the Department of Political Science, on Monday, March 5, 2012, with the participation of a students’ delegation from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. . The delegation comprised of 22 postgraduate students and ...

The department of commerce and business studies in collaboration with the department of economics organized a two-day annual fest called “Ecocracy” on the university campus. The whole day included many fun related learning activities and cultural events. The festival took place on February 27 and 28, 2012. There were three different venues reserved for about a dozen of activities including ...

The MMAJ-Academy of International Studies, organized the third Dr. Saifuddin Kitchlew annual lecture on the topic “Engaging the World: India and the Challenges of Our Times” by Mr. Jaswant Singh, member of the Bharatiya Janata Party, and a member of parliament, Lok Sabha, from the Darjeeling constituency. He has also served as the Union Finance and External Affairs Minister during ...

The non-academic department of horticulture at Jamia organized a “flower show” in the lawns of Dr. M.A. Ansari Auditorium on Monday, Feb. 27, 2012.   In an interview with Jamia Journal, Khalid Hussain, the garden supervisor, said that this is the first time the department of horticulture has organized such an event. He went on to say, the reason the ...

[Report on the second session of the symposium titled “North-East India: Strangers of the mist” has been reported by R. Nithya] To understand the growing dissent and disarray among some sections of Indian civil society, a UGC sponsored one-day symposium, with the theme “India: A Million Mutinies,” was organized under the Human Rights Programme by the Department of Political Science, ...

In collaboration with the National Entrepreneurship Network, the department of commerce and business studies, organized a workshop titled, “Making of an Entrepreneur” on Thursday, February 16, 2012 in the seminar room, department of social work.   Mr. Rajiv Kumar, Chief Executive Officer of the RockeTalk Inc. was invited to the event to address the students. He narrated to them the ...

The Subject Association of the Department of Political Science, on February 7, 2012, screened a documentary film titled ‘Izzatnagari ki asabhya betiyaan’ (The immoral daughters in the land of honour) at its seminar room.   Documentary filmmaker, Nakul Singh Sawhney, dared to take his camera in the lands where the rule of the khap frightens the society to its fingernails. ...

On Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012, Vice Chancellor Najeeb Jung unveiled a bust of Maulana Mohammad Ali Jauhar in front of the Vice Chancellor’s office, more formally known as the Khayban-e-Ajmal (Administrative Block).   Maulana Mohammad Ali Jauhar was one of the founders of Jamia Millia Islamia, who later also became its first vice chancellor. After the unveiling of the sculpture, ...

[Editor’s Note: Following is a Jamia Press Release.] On Monday, January 30, 2012, Nasreen Munni Kabir delivered the Annual Anwar Jamal Kidwai Memorial Lecture to a packed auditorium in Jamia Millia Islamia. Based in London, Kabir’s body of work over 30 years include TV programmes for Channel 4, documentaries and books that have preserved the legacy of Indian cinema and ...

Hamidur Rahman, a B.A. final year student in the department of political science, has decided to withdraw his legal petition against Jamia from the Delhi High Court.   In an interview with Jamia Journal, Rahman said that he had filed a petition in the Delhi High Court on Tuesday, Jan 24, 2012, demanding a directive from the court for the ...