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[Following is a press release by the Entrepreneurship Club – JMI received on Dec. 3, 2012] According to the 2012 Report of the Planning Commission, India has to create approximately 10 to 12 million jobs every year. So keeping this in mind Jamia Millia Islmia (JMI) has formally launched an Entrepreneurship Club (E-Club) on 27th Nov.2012. The launch took place ...

[Following is a Jamia press release dated Nov. 30]  BOL – The Debating Club working under Jamia Cultural Committee of Jamia Millia Islamia had organized a Tri Lingual Debate Competition on the topic “Peoples’ Movement are a Threat to Parliamentary Democracy” on November 29, 2012. The students of the University took part in the competition in large numbers. The results ...

Dr. K.R. Narayanan Centre for Dalit and Minorities Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, on Friday, November 30, organised the 6th Dr. K. R. Narayanan Memorial lecture on “Democracy in Exile: The Case of Tibet”. The lecture was delivered by Honourable Sikyong (Prime Minister), Dr. Lobsang Sangay, Central Tibetan Administration (Government-in-Exile), Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh in the Edward Said Hall. (Link to Audio) ...

The Maulana Mohammad Ali Jauhar Academy of International Studies organized a panel discussion on “India’s National Report to the UN Human Rights Council” at the Academy’s Hu Chi Minh Conference Hall on Tuesday Nov.  20, 2012. Besides the director of the Academy, T.C.A. Rangachari, and the panel convener Prof. Jamal M. Moosa, the other three panelists where  Ravi Nair, the ...

In an exceptional display of student solidarity, the residents of Jamia’s boys hostel on Thursday, Nov. 22, collected and donated Rs.9000 to help pay for the fines of about a dozen students who were fined Rs.3000 each by the Jamia administration for protesting and going on a hunger-strike against a mess fee hike they deemed unjust, in the month of ...

After a week-long of murder and mayhem by Israel, it agreed to a cease-fire with Hamas in Gaza on Wednesday Nov. 21. However, in that week-long of attacks on Gaza, Israel attacked and killed 162 Palestinians, including 42 children, 11 women and 18 elderly people. In all 1,222 have so far been listed as injured, more than half of them ...

[Following is a Jamia press release dated Nov 22, 2012] Jamia Millia Islamia held its Annual Convocation today i.e. on November 22, 2012 at 3 PM in the Lawns of Dr. M.A. Ansari Auditorium, Jamia Millia Islamia. Lt. Gen. (Retd.) M A Zaki, Chancellor, Jamia Millia Islamia presided over the Annual Convocation. The convocation began with the singing of the ...

In a special felicitation ceremony held in the engineering faculty auditorium on Friday Nov. 16, Jamia recognized and congratulated a team of eight mechanical engineering students who had won first place in a national automotive design competition called SAE Efficycle, which is organized under the aegis of  Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), a prestigious international engineering society. The competition carried ...

According to a hostel resident in Jamia, who wishes to remain unnamed for fear of reprisal, the Jamia administration on Tuesday, November 20, has fined and suspended a few students for taking part in a protest against mess fee hike, that took place on-campus, on September 27. According to a student who took part in the protest, about 250 students, ...

[Following is a Jamia press release dated Nov 20, 2012] Jamia Millia Islamia shall be holding its Annual Convocation on November 22, 2012 at 3 PM in the Lawns of Dr. M.A. Ansari Auditorium, Jamia Millia Islamia.   For the first time the university will be streaming a video of the proceedings of the convocation live on jamia’s website www.jmi.ac.in. ...