Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. File. Teacher gives lessons in Urdu language (AFP via Getty) India’s top court upheld the use of Urdu on public signboards in ...

India’s top court upheld the use of Urdu on public signboards in Maharashtra, rejecting the notion that the language was alien to the country. The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that Urdu and Marathi, ...

Prem Chopra, along with writer Javed Siddiqui and actor Sharmila Tagore, will talk about the evolution of the Urdu language in Hindi cinema at 'Jashn-E-Rekhta' festival Rekhta founder Sanjiv Saraf.

Urdu remains the language of poetry that accumulates aashiqs at every adaa, but Gen Z is reclaiming it as a connection to their pre-Partition heritage Akshita Nagpal’s move from Delhi to Versova in ...

Javed Akhtar and Shabana Azmi released an Urdu poetry album called ‘Shayarana – Sartaj’. Javed Akhtar, who spoke at the ceremony, emphasised the significance of the Urdu language and the part Punjab ...

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 ...

Who does Urdu belong to? India's right-wing seems to think it's a foreign import, forced upon by so-called Islamic invaders. The latest fracas happened in April when a reporter from a far-right news ...

The administration in the Ladakh region has removed the official status of the Urdu language and dropped it as eligibility from job requirements in a key revenue department of the Union Territory.