Rajasthan plans to restrict Urdu and Persian in police work, preferring Hindi for clarity. Minister Jawahar Singh Bedham has ...

Rajasthan Minister Jawahar Singh Bedham on Friday wrote a letter to the Director General of Police (DGP), suggesting that the ...

The aspirants, especially from the Jammu region, contend that the requirement is discriminatory as the Union territory has ...

The Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) led a protest in Jammu against the Jammu and Kashmir government's decision to make ...

One such language is his mother tongue, Urdu, the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan, which is also widely spoken in India. Ahmed, who is from Lahore, has had many conversations with ...

Credit: Langues’O 1795-1995 Subscribe for ads-free reading Sitting in my university office in Paris, I was recently visited by a young French student wishing to learn the Urdu script.

But which country was that politician in, and who was he? If you answered Pakistan, where Urdu has been the national language since the country’s foundation, you would be wrong. The answer is India.

New Delhi, India – Last week, Hindu right-wing forces in India forced a leading firm to withdraw its festive season advertisement after it featured a couple of words from the Urdu language ...

“Urdu is a mixture of Persian, Arabic and Turkish words formed with the intermingling of invading Muslim armies and local Hindi-speaking Hindus. It’s a Turkish word which means Army ...