"We are confident Online's expertise in the Urdu market and AFP's strong global reputation will be a winning formula,' said Online editor-in-chief Mohsin Baig. The co-branded Urdu project, part of a ...

What questions do you pose to a man whose legacy spans eight decades? But Gulzar has a way of holding forth when we meet him at his Mumbai bungalow. Dressed in his signature white kurta-pyjamas, the ...

Taking a sharp jibe at Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath over his recent remark, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi said on Saturday that Urdu isn't the language of the Muslim community and the ...

rdu. The very word evokes a sense of nostalgia, a whisper of poetry, a connection to a rich cultural heritage. More than just a language, it’s an emotion, a shared history, a mother tongue that ...

Even though Urdu has remained the state’s second official language since 1989, the UP government’s Urdu proficiency examination appears to have evoked little interest over the years. The state ...

Row Over Replacing Urdu With Sanskrit In Rajasthan Schools The move comes on the heels of Rajasthan ordering the "merger" of four Urdu-medium schools and what fuelled the growing resentment was a ...

A view of the Supreme Court of India building, an apex judicial body of the country, in New Delhi.(HT_PRINT) The Supreme Court on April 15 upheld the use of Urdu on the signboards of a municipal ...

Nestled in Chandni Chowk, one of the city’s oldest and busiest markets, the Urdu Bazaar seems like a fading relic of Delhi’s rich cultural heritage. The bazaar dedicated to Urdu literature, which once ...

The term ‘Urdu novel’ refers to fictional works that have emerged over the past one and a half centuries. Research published in literary magazine Adbiyaat’s special issue on the Urdu novel indicates ...