The Narendra Modi government has run into allegations of using institutions under its administrative control to glorify or defend controversial Hindutva icons. The National Council for the Promotion ...

Choudhri Mohammed Naim, better known as C.M. Naim, passed away in Hyde Park on July 9. Naim—called Naim Sahib by his students and colleagues, using the Urdu honorific—was 89. An emeritus professor in ...

Doha, Qatar: The Sheikh Abdulla Bin Zaid Al-Mahmoud Islamic Cultural Center organised a lecture for the Urdu-speaking community on the greatness of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). The event ...

The once-thriving world of Urdu-language media in India is today a shadow of its former self. From icons like Qaumi Awaaz and Roznama Rashtriya Sahara to lesser-known weeklies, many publications that ...

I’d said to myself: Why don’t I do my own Bhartiya-karan, that is, Indianise myself, before someone else thinks of doing it? The first problem was my name. Perhaps you don’t know: my name is Iqbal ...

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday (July 15, 2025) held celebrations in Jammu and Kashmir over the Central Administrative Tribunal’s (CAT) decision to drop Urdu as a mandatory qualification ...

KABUL (Pajhwok): In a traditional clothing workshop in Kabul, dozens of women are busy producing Gand Afghani garments-outfits adorned with designs inspired by the diverse cultural heritage of ...

The audience cheered and clapped entreating the poets for an encore. At the 56th edition of Bazm-e-Mushaira in the national capital last month, the energy and the evocation of emotions did well to ...

Sudha Pai in 2002 stated, “If a language is not characterised by political neutrality, it too often becomes the tool by which this language group seeks to extend its domination over the minority ...

"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 building of ...

Language is not religion and to consider Urdu as a language of Muslims is a "pitiable digression" from reality and unity in diversity, the Supreme Court has said while rejecting a petition challenging ...