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With a view to reflect upon the legacy of Asghar Ali Engineer, Dr. K. R. Narayanan Centre for Dalit and Minorities Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia organized a one-day seminar on ‘Secularism, Gender Rights and Ethnic Violence with a Focus on Muzaffarnagar Riots’ on Wednesday, 12th March, in the conference hall of FTK-Centre for Information Technology of the varsity. Dr. Azra ...

[Following is an official Jamia press release dated on March 12] The Department of Urdu, Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) had organized a Prize Distribution Ceremony on February 28, 2014 to award the winners of the Tagore Inter-University Essay Competition held on “Tagore aur Iqbal” under Tagore Research and Translation Scheme (TRTS) funded by the Ministry of Culture, Government of India for ...

[Following is an official Jamia press release dated March 12] Jamia Millia Islamia is pleased to announce that 31 students who have received coaching at Residential Coaching Academy run by the Centre for Coaching and Career Planning, Jamia Millia Islamia have secured places in the list of successful candidates of Civil Services (Main) Examination 2013 organized by Union Public Service ...

The Department of Political Science, Jamia Millia Islamia organized a lecture on “Pakistan: An Aspiring Federation” by Veena Kukreja, professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, on 5th March 2014 in the seminar room of the department. The lecture broadly touched upon the questions of why Pakistan, since its birth from the partition of 1947, has been ...

[Following is an official press release from Jamia dated Feb. 28, 2014] The University of Heidelberg from Germany and Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS) from France have sought to enter into academic collaborations with Jamia Millia Islamia. Two separate academic delegations called on the Vice-Chancellor Prof. S.M. Sajid on February 25, 2014 to explore possibilities of tie-ups aimed at mutual strengthening ...

[Following is an official Jamia press release dated Feb. 25, 2014] The three-day Inter-University Cultural Festival “MIRAAS 2014” was formally inaugurated by Prof. S.M. Sajid, Vice-Chancellor, Jamia Millia Islamia on February 24, 2014. Mrs. Shanta Sarabjeet Singh was the Chief Guest of the Inaugural Function of “MiRAAS 2014” The event began with a recitation from the Holy Quran by Nasir ...

Keeping with the literary culture of Jamia, combined with an ever increasing entrepreneurial spirit among the students, a group of Jamia students from the humanities faculty have come together to publish a trilingual fortnightly literary magazine called, Campus Companion. Among others, Campus Companion is principally the combined effort of its three editors: Ghulam Sarwar (2015), B.A. English; Nisar Ahmed (2015), ...

According to an email from Jamia Millia Islamia Media Co-ordinator, Prof. Simi Malhotra, the Lt. Governor of Delhi and former vice-chancellor of JMI, Najeeb Jung, has asked Prof. Malhotra to work for him as his “Advisor, Academics, Media and Culture on deputation.” As a result, Prof. Malhotra has relinquished her position at Jamia with immediate effect. In her place, Dr. ...