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Mathematician Prof Ayub gets new top responsibility in Jamia Professor Ayub Khan, Head, Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Jamia Millia Islamia, has got a new responsibility at the top in the university. A notice issued by the university on Wednesday reads: “The Vice Chancellor Jamia Millia Islamia in terms of Statute 9(1) of the university, has been pleased to appoint Professor Ayub Khan, Head, Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Jamia Millia Islamia, as Dean of Students’ Welfare, with immediate effect for a period of three years, or till attaining the age of superannuation or till further…

Ticket-seekers in Okhla launch poster blitz, frittering away lakhs of rupees on defacing Jamia Nagar Hoping for a party ticket to contest the upcoming Municipal Corporation of Delhi elections, which is just a few months away, some leaders and activists nursing political clout, have already launched poster blitz in Okhla. Most of them have got their posters pasted illegally across the locality, defacing the whole locality. A walk through the locality shows banners hanging, posters on walls, said one Okhla watcher, adding that just see in their desperate desire to get ticket these self-proclaimed leaders some being backed by facebookya…

SDMC schools resume classes, nursery to Class V students excited South Delhi Municipal Corporation has opened its schools for Nursery to Class 5 students from February 14. All SDMC Primary Schools were closed for two years due to Covid pandemic and children attending classes were excited as they had got the opportunity to come to school after a long period of time. School administrations, too, had made all arrangements to welcome students. Classrooms were given a beautiful look with boards and other items, it said. “Schools witnessed a good footfall on the first and second days of opening. Deputy Commissioners…

Crowdfunding drive for 2 Zakir Nagar youths in ICU after accident A crowdfunding drive has been raised for two Zakir Nagar youths battling for life after they met with an accident in a town of Bihar. Sadique Rahman has launched the drive on fund raising platform impactguru and wrote: “The funds raised through this campaign will save my brother’s life.” Help Saad, Zaid to recover from accidental injuries “My name is Sadique Rahman and I am raising funds for my friends Saad, 18, and Zaid 22, who met with a terrible accident last night, both of them got badly injured…

Prof Mahfooz new Head of Jamia’s Urdu department Prof Ahmad Mahfooz has been appointed as the Head of the Department of Urdu, Jamia Millia Islamia. Professor Ahmad is a prominent poet and expert in classical literature and he has been performing teaching duties in this field for a long time. Professor Ahmed Mahfooz belongs to Allahabad and his area of interest is classical Urdu Poetry and Poetics, Mir Taqi Mir Studies. Besides Urdu, he is well versed in English, Hindi and Persian. He did is PhD on A Critical Study of Mir Criticism in Urdu, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and MPhil…

Days after some students’ peaceful protest for reopening of Jamia Millia Islamia citing that many universities have opened their doors for students after Covid cases have decreased across India Jamia Millia Islamia posted an office order on its social media regarding its decision to reopen the university. It was in March 2020 when Jamia was closed following the outbreak of Covid in India. A two-page notice issued on February 14 carrying signature of Jamia Registrar Nazim Husain Jafri on Monday is online. “The university has limited seats in the boys and girls hostels and the hostel buildings are being either…

Electric autos to start plying soon in Delhi, 33% quota for women drivers Delhi will soon see thousands of electric autos plying on its city roads. The computerised draw of lots was held today for allotment of 4261 E-autos and the Transport Department will soon start the process of issuance of Letter of Intent (LOI) to all successful applicants. The Supreme Court in a landmark decision on 11th February, 2022 had allowed the Delhi Government to resume the process of registration of 4261 e-autos in the capital, said the government. The scheme was earlier halted due to a lawsuit filed…

DSEU opens campuses for students The Delhi Skill and Entrepreneurship University started offline classes on Monday, 14th February 2021 in all its 15 campuses across Delhi. The University kickstarted the pioneer batch of students in December 2021, admitting 5000+ students across 15 Full-Time Diploma, 4 Part-Time Diploma, 12 Lateral Entry Diploma, 11 Flagship Degree programs, and Bachelors of Computer Engineering and Post Graduate Programmes. “Today is the day all of us at the university have been looking forward to since day1. Earlier in December when we held an orientation for the first academic year at DSEU, we waited to see…

Under its newly designed CBCS Course: Communication Strategies for Human-Wildlife Conflict Mitigation, AJK Mass Communication Research Centre (MCRC), Jamia Millia Islamia, is taking help of national & international experts to train its students on the significance of media interventions in creating awareness on Human-Wildlife conflict. The course at MCRC is being conducted with the help of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). Dr Mala Narang Reddy, noted social anthropologist will be teaching students through a workshop on 19th, Feb 2022, how they may address people’s perceptions and social dimensions of Human Wildlife Conflict (HWC) and also facilitate gender-sensitive HWC conflict…

Work for building Shaheen Bagh Freedom Fighter Fountain in full swing Days after some BJP local leaders turned up at Shaheen Bagh to stop the work for Freedom Fighter Fountain at the spot claiming that it was a move to usurp government land by the AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan work for building the fountain is in full swing. MLA Khan’s supporters and AAP Councillor Wajid Khan had rubbished the allegation. The video of the report posted on the OT Facebook page on January 23 got 689K views with 312 comments and 5.7K likes. MLA Khan in a meeting in Zakir…