A decision to hire applicants without Urdu knowledge to revenue department posts and a proposal to introduce Sanskrit in ...

The Urdu-speaking minority remains marginalized in Bangladesh, facing poor living conditions and limited access to education and services. Many Biharis feel abandoned by the government's unkept ...

In 1924, he published a copious collection of Iqbal’s Urdu verses, under the title Kulliyaat-i-Iqbal, with a 130-page commendatory foreword, from Hyderabad (Deccan), albeit without Iqbal’s permission.

Saira Banu recalls lifelong Raksha Bandhan bond between Dilip Kumar and Lata Mangeshkar which was full of care, affection and ...

Urdu is spoken by roughly 230 million people globally—largely in Pakistan and India, as well as among diaspora communities around the world.

The once-thriving world of Urdu-language media in India is today a shadow of its former self. From icons like Qaumi Awaaz and ...

“The prejudice against Urdu stems from the misconception that Urdu is alien to India. This opinion, we’re afraid, is incorrect as Urdu, like Marathi and Hindi, is an Indo-Aryan language.

Today I’m going around NYC’s Little Pakistan neighborhood in Brooklyn ordering halal food, chai, and all kinds of other Pakistani delicacies in Urdu, which I’ve been learning recently. It’s such a ...

Urdu is now stigmatized as foreign, the language of India’s archrival, Pakistan. Families increasingly prefer to enroll children in schools that teach English and other Indian languages better ...

India is a country whose wonderful diversity stems from the richness of its past. That includes the Urdu script. Extract from a Hindustani textbook used at INALCO, Paris in 1833. Credit: Langues ...

The family of a missing man whose body was discovered on a melting glacier in Pakistan after 28 years said Thursday its ...