At least 31 people have been killed and 169 injured in an explosion at a mosque during Friday prayers in Pakistan's capital, ...

LAHORE: Pakistan’s own Urdu ChatGPT, “Qalb”, has officially been launched, marking a historic milestone in the country’s digital journey. Developed under the leadership of Taimoor Hassan, a Pakistani ...

The resounding success of Jashn-e-Rekhta in Delhi and the Urdu Book Fair at Aligarh Muslim University indicate the enduring resilience of the language Despite the dazzling glare and shimmer of the ...

It is while flipping through the yellowed pages of an old feedback register at Danish Mahal that I spot Manzoor Parwana. Seated quietly in his chair, sipping a glass of tea, the 77-year-old retired ...

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ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Law and Justice on Tuesday convened a high-level meeting in which officials were surprised by the absence of an official Urdu version of the Nikahnama, or marriage contract, ...

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 Maharashtra ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Thirty-five years after Uttar Pradesh (UP) adopted Urdu as its second official language, chief minister Yogi Adityanath’s speech in the state assembly has revived the contentious issue over the ...