Rais Anis Sabri, a celebrated Sufi Qawwal, has released an Urdu rendition of Hazrat Amir Khusro's 13th-century Persian poem, ...

Today I’m going around NYC’s Little Pakistan neighborhood in Brooklyn ordering halal food, chai, and all kinds of other Pakistani delicacies in Urdu, which I’ve been learning recently. It’s such a ...

Contrary to the current perception that Urdu is the language of Muslims alone, reality tells a different story. Some of the greatest non-Muslim writers, like Munshi Premchand, wrote in both Hindi and ...

The audience cheered and clapped entreating the poets for an encore. At the 56th edition of Bazm-e-Mushaira in the national capital last month, the energy and the evocation of emotions did well to ...

Rajasthan Minister Jawahar Singh Bedham on Friday (June 13, 2025) wrote a letter to the Director General of Police (DGP), suggesting that the police department simplify its language by replacing Urdu ...

Patna: Chief minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday inaugurated the newly constructed building of the Govt Urdu Library on Ashok Rajpath. Considering the abundance of books in the library and the ...

in the late 1960’s. Izhar-ul-Haq was deeply moved by Aftab Ahmad Shah’s wondrous intelligence, his mercurial temperament, and his imperviousness to worldliness. He proceeds to review the latter’s ...

In the bustling heart of Old Delhi, Indian bookseller Mohammed Mahfooz Alam sits forlorn in his quiet store, among the last few selling literature in a language beloved by poets for centuries. Urdu, ...

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has caused difficulties for Urdu medium students in MANUU schools by offering question papers only in English or Hindi. Students in MANUU schools ...

Writer, translator and literary historian Rakhshanda Jalil’s critical work on Urdu progressives and other writers is well-recognised as are her translations from Urdu. In her latest book, Love in the ...

NEW DELHI: IN a bid to strengthen ‘Brand Delhi’, the city government is set to inaugurate a new chapter of literary festivities with the celebration of Urdu poet Mir Taqi Mir whose 300th birth ...

(MENAFN- Kashmir Observer) Srinagar- The Jammu and Kashmir Police has come out with a compendium on the three new criminal justice laws containing detailed provisions regarding investigation, arrest, ...