Urdu scholar and translator Rakshanda Jalil’s new collection Whose Urdu is it Anyway? is linked by one theme: to challenge the notion that Urdu is the language of Muslim writers alone, especially in a ...

In an age driven by technology and social media, when languages are being diminished to emojis and abbreviations, Urdu, a language of silken metaphors and layered meanings, is experiencing an ...

The Supreme Court has recently stated that Urdu is “the finest specimen of Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb" or the “Hindustani tehezeeb" upholding the use of Urdu on a signboard of a municipal council building ...

The Supreme Court while upholding the use of Urdu on a municipal signboard in Patur, Akola district, Maharashtra, rejected the claims that it is alien to India. The order came on a petition filed by ...

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 ...

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The Supreme Court bench said that Urdu and Marathi have the same status under the Constitution. Amid the ongoing language row across the country, the Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the use of Urdu on ...

The knowledge of Urdu has been made mandatory for all candidates applying for the Anganwadi teachers' post in Mudigere and Chikkamagaluru districts of Karnataka. This announcement was made by the ...

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HYDERABAD: Imagine Dakhni language as a tree, which has its roots that are ‘local’ and the stem and the branches are Urdu,” said Dr Peggy Mohan, eminent linguist, who delivered a series of lectures ...