Posts Tagged ‘jnu’

Leading environmental and birding groups in Delhi invite all of you to join us for the BIG BIRD DAY 2011. On this day, different teams comprising birding enthusiasts will cover different parts of the Delhi city and around (and even other parts of the country), to inventorize a list of sighted birds. Full story

The University of Delhi hosted its first public lecture of 2011 today, on 'The Politics of Nature: East- West Perspective in the Viceregal Lodge of the University. The event was marked by the presence of Vice-Chancellor Prof. Dinesh Singh and Director of the Centre for Science ... Full story

The Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) in collaboration with the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) invites interested and concerned citizens to a lecture on Modernity and Climate Change: The Aesthetics of Immersion by renowned Art Historian and Cultural Critic Prof. Nicholas Mirzoeff from New York ... Full story

The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has launched a “National Environmental Sciences Fellows Programme” for Indian scientists desirous of working at the forefront of environmental sciences, engineering and technology, with a focus on problem solving environmental research. According to Shri Jairam Ramesh, Minister of State for Environment & Forests (IC), the ... Full story

The India International Center invites all concerned citizens to a talk on "Wetlands Ecology and the Yamuna Biodiversity Park", as the fourth lecture in the series on 'Water: the stuff of life". The talk will be delivered by Professor C.R. Babu, Emeritus Professor, Center for Environmental Management of Degraded Ecosystems (CEMDE), ... Full story

If there is one bird you can remember from your childhood, it would probably be the House Sparrow. Since it lives in close proximity with humans, the House Sparrow is, for most of us, the first bird we learn to identify. Many bird watchers and ornithologists recall with ... Full story

Tucked away in the greens of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in South Delhi are a series of mysterious and inviting caves - which make for an out-of-city experience! Aptly geo-tagged here as 'Akele Jaana Mana Hai', the caves have often been the choice of destination for the JNU Mountaineering ... Full story

For all the Delhiites who havn't really seen any real 'wildlife' in the city, you've got to check this out. Dr. Surya Prakash of JNU spotted a COMMON PALM CIVET ( Paradoxurus hermaphroditus  Schreber 1778 ) near JNU's SBI ATM! He was also able to capture the animal on camera as under: The Common Palm Civet is a ... Full story