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Saniuddin Khan, a student of M.A Visual Effects and Animation, AJK Mass Communication Research Center, Jamia Millia Islamia, has won first prize in the student category for his ad-film titled, “Living Star,” at the MBICEM First Frame 2015 Seventh International Students Film Festival, held on 16th and 17th April, 2015 at Sri Fort Auditorium, New Delhi. Eleven films were short-listed and ...

SIO launched ‘Save the Internet’ Campaign in Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi on Saturday, 18th April 2015. National President of the Students’ Islamic Organisation of India (SIO), Iqbal Hussain said that Net Neutrality – the principle that all data should be treated equally on the Internet, is something that we should not compromise on. He called the attempts to thwart Net ...

Jamia Teachers Solidarity Association (JTSA) and Jamia Teachers’ Association (JTA) organized a public meeting on the topic, “State Violence and the (Im)possibility of Justice Lessons from Hashimpura,” at the JTA office, JMI on Tuesday, April 7, 2015. [Listen to the complete session here.] Speakers for the event were Advocate Ms. Rebecca John, lawyer for the Hashimpura victims; Mr. V.N.Rai (Retd. IPS); Prof. ...

April 26, 2015: There are two remarkable changes in Jamia’s admission form this year. First, there has been an addition of a third gender called “Transgender” under the gender category of the form. So now you have three options to choose from: Male, Female or Transgender. Second, of which we are not certain if this is the first time, but ...

A two-day SAARC Conference on “Gender, Community and Violence: Changing Mindsets for Empowering the women of South Asia” was inaugurated by Ms. Rula Ghani, the First Lady of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, [at Faculty of Engineering Auditorium, JMI, Wednesday, April 15, 2015.] Delivering her Keynote Address, Ms. Rula Ghani, who is known for her social service in Afghanistan, said ...

Students of the first graduating batch (batch of 2013-15) of M.A. in Visual Effects and Animation course at AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia organized an exhibit titled, “Drawing Room,” which showcased their work produced over the past two years of their course, held at the Animation Lab, AJK-MCRC, on Friday, 10 April 2015. The exhibit included, about 40 ...

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 ...

French language students of the Centre for European & Latin American Studies, JMI took part in the recently held National Seminar on Francophone Studies on 17th March 2015 at the Centre for French & Francophone Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Students of Certificate, Diploma and Advanced Diploma in French attended this program with their professors Mr. Faizullah Khan, Mrs. Maitree Verma ...

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 ...

The second talk in the series of lectures on the theme: “People, Politics and Ideology” was organized by the Department of Political Science in collaboration with Jamia Discussion Forum by Dr. Sanjeev Kumar, Associate Professor, Deshbandhu College, New Dellhi on the topic: “Saffronization of Education,” on  March 23, 2015 With the recent change of ‘nizam’ at the Centre and subsequent attempts ...