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 ...

The ministry of information and broadcasting (MIB) on Sunday dismissed media reports that claimed Hindi television news channels had been served notices for using “too many Urdu words” in their ...

As Cat Stevens, he helped define the singer-songwriter. After converting to Islam, he became a lightning rod. His new memoir explores it all. Yusuf Islam, 77, performed one of rock’s great ...

The State-run West Bengal Urdu Academy, which was all set to hold a four-day festival to celebrate Urdu in Hindi cinema, has put off the event following opposition from some Islamic organisations to ...

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 ...

Former President of the Maldives and Secretary-General of the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF), H.E. Mohamed Nasheed, has called for urgent reforms to the global financial system to protect the world’s ...

On July 14, the Central Administrative Tribunal ruled that it would no longer be mandatory for an applicant to the post of a naib tehsildar in Jammu and Kashmir to know Urdu. To insist on it, the ...

AN aerial view of the Maldives’ fragile atolls—rings of coral barely above sea level—mirrors the growing climate peril faced by the Philippines and other low-lying nations. Visiting Manila as head of ...

Male [Maldives], July 23 (ANI): Former Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed on Wednesday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's upcoming visit to the island nation will significantly boost tourism ...

The term ‘Urdu novel’ refers to fictional works that have emerged over the past one and a half centuries. Research published in literary magazine Adbiyaat’s special issue on the Urdu novel indicates ...

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 ...