No year-enders this time. I have not recovered enough from what this year inflicted on me to write dispassionately about it. But as the name promises, I am writing the next worst thing: the decline ...

KARACHI: On the second day of the four-day “18th World Urdu Conference- 2025 titled “ Celebration of Pakistan” organized by ...

During a press conference, PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti refused a journalist's request to speak in Urdu, asserting the importance of the Kashmiri language. She questioned why similar demands aren't made ...

KARACHI: The 18th annual International Urdu Conference organised by the Arts Council of Pakistan began on Thursday evening ...

Y8 has expanded its multilingual interface with support to Farsi, Urdu, and Ukrainian, increasing the platform's total supported languages to 32. The update represents the latest step in a broader ...

The resounding success of Jashn-e-Rekhta in Delhi and the Urdu Book Fair at Aligarh Muslim University indicate the enduring ...

Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir government said that signboards in Urdu have not been removed from the Civil Secretariat buildings in Jammu and Srinagar, asserting that trilingual nameplates in Urdu, ...

Nagma Rehman has a lament in her retired life. Ms. Rehman, who retired a year ago as Urdu teacher at the Baxibagh, Government Higher Secondary School in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, says her school has ...

Once the lingua franca of North India, spoken in marketplaces, courts, and homes across caste and creed, Urdu today is too often boxed into a single identity — the language of Indian Muslims. But ...

It was April 20, 1975. Excitement filled Durbar Hall at Raj Bhavan, the governor's majestic, sea-facing residence in South Mumbai. A galaxy of stars from the city's literary firmament descended to ...

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Tuesday rejected a plea challenging the use of Urdu on the signboard of a municipal council building in Patur, Akola district, Maharashtra, while emphasising the prejudice ...