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19 March; Sehratola (Purnea), Bihar: During a seminar on educational backwardness of Seemanchal, Prof. Talat Ahmad, Vice Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia announced that his university will extend all possible support to open few centres of distance learning in the educationally backward region of Bihar i.e. Seemanchal. His announcement was received with huge applause of the people present during the ...

Faculty of Law, Jamia Millia Islamia in collaboration with National Commission for Women had organised a two day National Legal Awareness Programme on the 10th and 11th of October, 2015 at the Municipal Corporation School located in Batla House, New Delhi. During the Legal Awareness Programme, quite a number of women from adjoining localities participated in the aforementioned programme overwhelmingly. ...

Along with her friends, Neha Pandey (2016), a Jamia student of M.A. in Development Communications, AJK-MCRC, had ran a collection drive under the name “Rang De” on Jamia campus early this year in March with an aim to collect enough money to buy packets of coloring pens, pencils and sketch books, in order to bring a little bit of joy and ...

Youth for People, a Jamia law students group, has informed Jamia Journal that on Wednesday, April 29, they delivered all the donations they had collected in the past few days for the people affected by the Nepal earthquake, to the Nepal embassy in New Delhi. According to Sahil Ahmed, a member of Youth for People, the Nepal embassy people were ...

Jamia Students Participate in the “Come See the Blood on My Skirt” March at DUThe #PadsAgainstSexism campaign in Delhi, which started in Jamia on March 12th has now turned into a full-blown city-wide student movement with the campaign reaching the campuses of Jawaharlal Nehru University and Delhi University. On Friday, April 10th, student activists from all the three universities came ...

On his way to Jamia in a DTC AC bus on Sunday, March 29, Asif Iqbal, a Jamia student of engineering, was brutally attacked and badly injured by a pickpocket wielding a razor blade, in broad daylight in a bus full of people. According to Asif, he got on the bus at Saket on Sunday, sometime around 5:30 p.m to ...

[Following is an official Jamia press release dated Feb. 7] For the second successive year, Jamia Millia Islamia is participating in the New Delhi World Book Fair with its own independent pavilion. The India Arab Cultural Centre of Jamia Millia Islamia in collaboration with Abu Dhabi International Book Fair is showcasing its publications in the main hall of the Book ...

On Wednesday afternoon, Dec.19 — in response to the brutal rape that took place last Sunday — hundreds of students from several colleges and universities in Delhi gathered at India Gate to protest against the growing incidence of crimes against women. Students were angry that crimes against women are on an increase while the police does little to curb this ...

About 40 students from various departments in Jamia, went on an educational visit to the headquarters of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in Delhi on Thursday, March 15, 2012. . The tour was part of a CBI initiated program in which they have asked students from many schools and universities in Delhi to visit their offices and get a ...

After four years of fighting battles with the establishment, students at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) will finally be electing it’s students’ union on Thursday, March 1, 2012.   In 2008, the Supreme Court put a hold on students’ union elections, citing violations of the Lyngdoh committee’s recommendations on students’ union elections in educational institutions. But on December 8, last ...