New Delhi, Oct. 24 -- Over 1,500 teaching and non-teaching staff of Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI), along with the Vice-Chancellor of JMI, Prof. Mazhar Asif and Registrar of JMI, Prof. Md. Mahtab Alam Rizvi, convened a meeting on Saturday at the university's Ansari Auditorium lawns to discuss the way forward.

The meeting followed four rounds of talks and an appeal issued by the committee last night urging the students to call off their protests.

The meeting comes in a significant development amid week-long efforts by a seven-member high-level committee of university professors, constituted on October 18, to mediate with students protesting for elections to the Jamia Millia Islamia Students' Union (JMISU).

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