The first issue of the journal, published by Cambridge University Press, was launched by the Editor-in-Chief of the Outlook group, Vinod Mehta, who felt that the new journal targeting the informed lay reader filled a much-needed vacuum.

Jamia Vice-Chancellor Mushirul Hasan and media coordinator Rakhshanda Jalil are the joint editors of the new journal.

The journal adopts a multidisciplinary approach that spans across specialised areas of knowledge and understanding. It celebrates diversity in terms of people’s profiles, passions and pursuits. As the sub-title indicated, the “Third Frame” brings together ideas and images, myths and metaphors, concepts and theories that have captured our collective consciousness and found representation in literature, culture and society.

“The journal fulfils a long-felt need of Jamia to have a journal of its own, for there has been concern that universities are, or should be, the disseminators of not just knowledge but also ideas. Given its unique position in the nationalist secular tradition of multi-cultural, pluralist India, Jamia has always been a crucible for new ideas and newer ways of looking at things,” said a Jamia official.

Jamia Millia Islamia has announced June 6 as the last date for submission of application forms for admission to the MBA programme organised by the Centre for Management Studies on the campus. An entrance examination will be held on June 21.

Application forms can be obtained from the University on all working days against a cash payment of Rs.500.

Forms can also be downloaded from www.jmi.nic.in

The Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union finally ended its 11-day-long strike this past weekend when the administration signed an agreement on some key issues that it has been demanding.

Under the agreement, all steps would be taken by JNU to ensure that 27 per cent reservation for the Other Backward Classes was fulfilled at one go in the coming academic session.

“In the light of the recommendations of the sub-committee on recognition of madrassa certificate for the first year of B.A., JNU has agreed to consider that holders of madrassa certificates will be eligible to sit for the JNU entrance exam,” said JNUSU president Sandeep Singh.

“Regarding the cut-off date for the University Grants Commission fellowship from July 2005, the administration has said that it will prepare a detailed estimate of the funds required from the UGC. A high-level JNU team will approach the UGC to pursue this matter,” he added.

As per the agreement, software for visually challenged students will be installed in each school at JNU and a Braille printer will be provided in the library for them before the beginning of monsoon semester of 2008.

Jawaharlal Nehru University organised an international conference on “Reconstruction Process in Afghanistan” on the campus this past week. The two-day conference was organised by the Centre for South, Central, South-East Asian and South-West Pacific Studies at the School of International Studies.

The event was supported by the Union Ministry of External Affairs.

There were six technical sessions during the two-day deliberations on Challenges to Reconstruction, Indian and International Initiatives, Strategic and Security Concerns, Economy and Society, Drug Trafficking, Terrorism and Resurgence of Taliban and Regional Concerns and Vulnerable Groups.

Parul Sharma

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