After the beginning of the year, Gmail will automatically change to its Standard view. Some visually impaired users prefer the Basic view. CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and ...

A row has been triggered after the West Bengal Urdu Academy invited renowned poet and film writer Javed Akhtar for a mushaira (poetry) event in Kolkata, with Islamic outfits objecting to the decision, ...

Signboards displaying information in Hindi and English in Kashmir have stoked criticism that Urdu, which served as the Valley’s official language for over a century, is being sidelined. Social media ...

Yuko Goto Butler, director of the Graduate School of Education's Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Program, has long fielded requests from her students for a wide-ranging book of ...

Urdu scholar and translator Rakshanda Jalil’s new collection Whose Urdu is it Anyway? is linked by one theme: to challenge the notion that Urdu is the language of Muslim writers alone, especially in a ...

The once-thriving world of Urdu-language media in India is today a shadow of its former self. From icons like Qaumi Awaaz and Roznama Rashtriya Sahara to lesser-known weeklies, many publications that ...

With deep sorrow the children of C.M. Naim report his passing from a heart attack on 9 July 2025. “Naim Sahib” as he was known to so many, commenced his career as a professor of Urdu with the ...

Proceedings of an International Conference on Urdu Poetry, hosted by GDC Ganderbal, on July 9–10, 2025. “Global scholars converge to explore evolving landscape of Urdu poetry”, “Urdu a language of ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the use of Urdu on a signboard of Maharashtra municipal council, saying that "language belongs to a community, to a region, to people; and not to a religion". The ...