The Urdu-speaking minority remains marginalized in Bangladesh, facing poor living conditions and limited access to education and services. Many Biharis feel abandoned by the government's unkept ...

Saira Banu recalls lifelong Raksha Bandhan bond between Dilip Kumar and Lata Mangeshkar which was full of care, affection and ...

The once-thriving world of Urdu-language media in India is today a shadow of its former self. From icons like Qaumi Awaaz and ...

Urdu is spoken by roughly 230 million people globally—largely in Pakistan and India, as well as among diaspora communities around the world.

Writer, director and performer Mahmood Farooqi is credited with reviving and popularising the art form by reaching out to a ...

School principal I.A. Qureshi said the materials were circulated among the students without verifying the contents.

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 ...

“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 camp ...

India is a country whose wonderful diversity stems from the richness of its past. That includes the Urdu script. Extract from a Hindustani textbook used at INALCO, Paris in 1833. Credit: Langues ...

Urdu nouns and adjective can have a variety of origins, such as Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Pushtu and even Portuguese, but ninety-nine per cent of Urdu verbs have their roots in Sanskrit/Prakrit.