The Punjabi Wikimedians User Group has launched an Urdu Wikisource, a free, open source, global digital library for Urdu literature. The group has also urged the Punjab government to ease copyright ...

MISCONCEPTIONS about Urdu prose abound. Many believe Urdu prose hardly existed before the revolution of 1857. Some feel there has never been any scientific or philosophic prose in Urdu and most of ...

It is while flipping through the yellowed pages of an old feedback register at Danish Mahal that I spot Manzoor Parwana. Seated quietly in his chair, sipping a glass of tea, the 77-year-old retired ...

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In context: Windows has included a proprietary JavaScript engine since the release of Internet Explorer 3.0 nearly 30 years ago. Technically, JScript is Microsoft's own dialect of the ...

Delhi University on Saturday clarified that the listing of "Muslim" as a 'mother tongue' and the omission of Urdu from its undergraduate admission form was a "clerical error", after the move triggered ...

Sudha Pai in 2002 stated, “If a language is not characterised by political neutrality, it too often becomes the tool by which this language group seeks to extend its domination over the minority ...

A view of the Supreme Court of India building, an apex judicial body of the country, in New Delhi.(HT_PRINT) The Supreme Court on April 15 upheld the use of Urdu on the signboards of a municipal ...

Language is not religion and to consider Urdu as a language of Muslims is a "pitiable digression" from reality and unity in diversity, the Supreme Court has said while rejecting a petition challenging ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

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 ...