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Aug. 13, 2015: Adding a new dimension to its educational profile, Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI), a Central University by an Act of Parliament, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the esteemed Indian Air Force (IAF) to provide vertical and academic mobility to its personnel and officers. The MoU entered into by the two institutions records mutual intent for academic ...

On their return from home for the new academic year, Jamia girls hostel residents were shocked to find a new hostel policy forbidding them from taking any “Late Night Out” from now on. Late Night Out is a rare privilege Jamia girl hostellers are allowed to avail twice a month if they ever wish to stay out a couple of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mohammed Shahid (2016), a 20-year-old second year B.A. in Geography student of Jamia Millia Islamia and a cycling enthusiast, plans to cycle the length of India from Kanyakumari in the south, to Kashmir in the north, on his own to raise awareness about child sexual abuse. According to Shahid, a native of Kerala, the campaign will start on 3rd of ...

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 ...

After last week’s successful conclusion of a collection drive for the quake-hit people of Nepal by a Jamia student organization of law students called Youth for People, another student organization by the name of Jamia Students Forum (JSF) have concluded their own collection drive and dispatched their collection to Nepal on May 4, 2015 through the ongoing rescue and relief ...

Youth for People, a Jamia law students group, has informed Jamia Journal that on Wednesday, April 29, they delivered all the donations they had collected in the past few days for the people affected by the Nepal earthquake, to the Nepal embassy in New Delhi. According to Sahil Ahmed, a member of Youth for People, the Nepal embassy people were ...

In a week long workshop with the reputed journalist Angela Phillips, students of M. A. Convergent Journalism ran a news website that looked critically at Delhi.  A week long workshop, from 20 to 25 April, at AJK-MCRC, JMI culminated in the creation of a news website called Delhi Gazette. The website was created and run by convergent journalism students who ...