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Animal Rights Group ‘Lovanimals’ Offers to Help Jamia Control its Dog Population

An animal rights group called, “Lovanimals (Trust For The Welfare Of Animals)” has offered to help Jamia Millia Islamia control its stray dogs population on-campus by offering to neuter and vaccinate them at no cost to the university. In a letter addressed to the university Registrar, a founding member of Lovanimal, Sheetal Panwar, writes: “I’m writing this in connection with ...

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How a Hindu and a Sikh Saved the Life of a Future Muslim President of India

[Note: If it had not been for two concerned and sympathetic strangers, one Hindu and another Sikh, Jamia Millia Islamia’s then vice-chancellor and later president of India, Dr. Zakir Husain (1897-1969) would have been murdered in August 1947 during the carnage resulting from partition of India. Years later, he described the incident in a letter to his friend, which is ...

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Fine Arts Students Organize Photo Exhibition on World Photography Day

Vice-Chancellor Prof. Talat Ahmed inaugurates Photo Exhibition on World Photography Day at M.F. Husain Art Gallery, JMI; Aug. 18, 2015 (Photo courtesy Taiba Siddiqui)

The Department of Applied Art, Faculty of Fine Arts, Jamia Millia Islamia organized a photography exhibition on the occasion of World Photography Day on Aug. 18, 2015 at the M.F. Husain Art Gallery, JMI. The art exhibit includes the works of students and faculty members of the department and some Indian and International photographers. Prof. Talat Ahmed inaugurated the event ...

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Justice A.M. Ahmadi, Former Chief Justice of India, Delivers First A.M. Khwaja Memorial Lecture at Jamia

Justice A.M. Ahmadi, former Chief Justice of India delivers the first A.M. Khwaja Memorial Lecture, in the Edward Said Hall, JMI; Monday, Aug. 10, 2015. (Photo courtesy JMI)

The Centre for Jawaharlal Nehru Studies, in collaboration with Department of Economics, Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) today [Aug. 10, 2015] organized the First A.M. Khwaja Memorial Lecture in the Edward Said Hall, JMI. The lecture was delivered by Hon’ble Mr. Justice A.M. Ahmadi, former Chief Justice of India. It was presided over by Prof. Talat Ahmad, Vice-Chancellor, JMI. A.M. Khwaja’s ...

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Alumni Call for Formal Syllabus to Instill into Students the Idea of Jamia

[Jamia Millia Islamia Alumni Association - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia panel discussion on the approach of Jamia’s founders towards the all-round development of Jamiaites; July 23, 2015 (Photo via JMIAA-Riyadh)]

The Riyadh chapter of Jamia Millia Islamia Alumni Association held a panel discussion on the approach of Jamia’s founders towards the all-round development of Jamiaites, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on July 23, 2015. In the process of the transformation of Jamia from a humble beginning to a leading central university (playing multifaceted roles, and also having the uniqueness of having ...

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Jamia Student Distributes Packets of Color to Children Living in Okhla Slum

[Neha Pandey with her students in Sanjay Nagar slum in Okhla; Sunday, June 21, 2015 (Photo courtesy Neha Pandey)

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 ...

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Dept. of Eco. Conducts Capacity Building Programme for Social Science Faculty

The Department of Economics, Jamia Millia Islamia, has organized a two week Capacity Building Programme for Social Science Faculty Members(CBPSSFM), sponsored by ICSSR; the inaugural session of which was held on 15th May, 2015 wherein,  Justice Rajinder Sachar, Justice Sohail Aijaz Siddique were the chief Guest and Guest of Honour. Prof. Talat Ahmad VC, JMI presided over the programme while ...

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