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[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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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. [...]
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The All India Students Association (AISA), Jamia Unit, held a rally in Batla House, Jamia Nagar, on Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012, to mark the tenth anniversary of the Gujarat pogrom of 2002. People participating in the rally chanted slogans demanding justice for the victims of Gujarat violence and decried the government’s failure in holding [...]
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Controversy has been dogging Salman Rushdie and his book “Satanic Verses” since the time the book was published. And again on the eve of Jaipur Literature Festival this month, it initiated a debate within various social, political and literary circles, as some Muslim organizations and clerics voiced their protest against the invitation of Rushdie for [...]
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On a cold December night a few days ago, I walked a narrow and pebbled passage way that headed to a group of homeless people sitting around a campfire at a night shelter near Delhi’s Bangla Sahib Gurudwara. Helpless, they fought the furious cold weather of Delhi in their scant apparels. I was part of [...]
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The Public Health Foundation of India, under the aegis of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, organized a festival on mental health entitled “Uniting Hearts and Minds: A festival of creative expressions on mental health.” The event was held at the India International Center in New Delhi, on Monday, Oct. 10, 2011. The festival was [...]
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After weeks of promotion and preparation for the ‘Delhi SlutWalk’ — organized in protest against the growing incidents of sexual violence towards women — Delhi women, and more specifically the students of Delhi University (DU) who were the real people behind the walk, proved on Sunday, July 31, that not only can they talk the [...]
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In an article in The Times of India titled, “Delhi Metro: Phase III to cover 105 km now” dated Jan. 19, 2011: E Sreedharan, the head of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC), has announced that in the phase III extension of the Metro network, Delhi Metro will also be reaching Jamia Millia Islamia. He [...]
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