An emeritus professor in the University of Chicago’s Department of South Asian Languages & Civilizations (SALC), which he ...

Apple has added full Urdu language support in iOS 26, letting iPhone and iPad users in Pakistan set Urdu as their system language.

From mushairas to multimedia showcases, Shaam-e-Rekhta brings fresh relevance to Urdu’s poetic legacy to resonate across generations ...

Last week, in celebration of Hindi Diwas mayhap, the information and broadcasting ministry sent a complaint to news channels ...

Mumbai is set to immerse itself in the rich traditions of Urdu literature, art, and music as the Maharashtra Urdu Sahitya ...

Urdu, the free Urdu learning initiative led by Dr Tejinder Singh Rawal, was recently celebrated with warmth, - Nagpur News ...

Durga Puja is both worship and carnival. Religious rituals coexist with theatre, music, and culinary delights. Akbarabadi’s ...

That Urdu is spoken by a large number of people in Bengaluru is well known but Urdu literature and theatre is also thriving in the city Her lips were painted black, she wore distressed denims, her ...

Hyderabad: Urdu is a Lashkari (mixed dialect). It is a Persianised standard register of Hindustani language. It has 30 consonants, 20 vowels, two diphthongs; non-tonal; stress being on the penultimate ...

PIB's response comes amid several social media intermediaries claiming that the Ministry has asked the Hindi TV news channels to reduce the use of Urdu words in their broadcasts and switch to Hindi.

Urdu is known to have originated in the armed forces of the Mughal Empire, and was in no way tied to religion.