Para expressed concern over the CAT’s (Central Administrative Tribunal) order staying the requirement of basic Urdu knowledge for the naib tehsildar exam, calling it a worrying sign of judicial forums ...

Purani Dilli to Ayodhya, Fouzia Dastango is reimagining Hindu epics to Meena Kumari’s story in Urdu. Crowds love it.

Writers, translators, editors and publishers working on such exchanges are cartographers, who map China and its orientation ...

Language issue has heated up in Jammu and Kashmir with the BJP batting for the use of Hindi in official work and exams, while local Kashmiri politicians and activists are crying hoarse over ...

Rajasthan Govt Proposes Hindi-Only Use In Police Work, Sparks Urdu Language Row State Home Minister Jawahar Singh Bedham has written a letter to the Director General of Police in this regard and ...

Urdu journalism is celebrating 200 years of its existence, it seems to be perhaps the best opportunity to clear some myths and misconceptions about Urdu.

Urdu, a language that thrived across centuries in the past, spoken by millions in India, has experienced a steady yet undeniable fall in its usage over the years. The decline of Urdu in ...

It’s one of the multiple challenges schools face when building out dual-language immersion programs in general, but especially when programs feature less commonly taught languages such as Urdu ...

The Supreme Court has emphasized that India's linguistic diversity should be celebrated, not be a cause for division. The court upheld the use of Urdu, alongside Marathi, on a signboard in ...

"Let's Befriend Every Language": Top Court On Plea To Remove Urdu Sign Board The court dismissed a plea seeking the removal of an Urdu signboard placed beneath a Marathi signboard on a new ...

Urdu literary groups have welcomed the Supreme Court's judgment on Urdu, calling it a language rooted in India and as Indian as other Indo-Aryan languages, Hindi and Marathi.