Although Urdu is Pakistan’s national language, an interesting debate that often resurfaces is that the native speakers of Urdu hardly constitute 10 per cent of Pakistan’s population. Prof Fateh ...

According to a Urdu lecturer at a government college in Kota district, there are over a dozen Hindu college lecturers and around 60 school lecturers who are teaching the language in Rajasthan. Even as ...

Many Chinese universities are extending their Urdu teaching programmes. According to China Economic Net, admissions in Urdu are currently open in many Chinese universities. The Beijing Foreign Studies ...

PESHAWAR: An Urdu teaching facility opened its doors to public on Sunday. There are many centres for teaching English and other foreign languages like Arabic, French and German but there is no centre ...

It is 2pm, and a seven-year-old boy sits in an after-school Urdu remedial class, his fingers tracing the unfamiliar curves of the words before him. The sentence on the page seems simple enough: “Yeh ...

The residents of Pahadganj are furious. In 2014, the Urdu-medium primary school in this neighbourhood in Jaipur city, Rajasthan, was merged with a Hindi-medium senior secondary school that operated ...

White Coat Black ArtLearning Urdu over FaceTime during the pandemic was a lesson in love for this Ontario family This is a story from White Coat, Black Art's series called Prescription for Resilience: ...

Bihar's Kishanganj district has mandated private CBSE-affiliated schools to teach Urdu, following a DISHA meeting highlighting its absence. Schools must report compliance to the Bihar Education ...

Nagpur: “Language doesn’t distinguish itself on the basis of religion, rather, they belong to regions,” says city-based CA Tejinder Singh Rawal. Rawal has been conducting Urdu ...

The decision of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to offer question papers to students only in English or Hindi has put students of Urdu medium MANUU schools in trouble. Students ...

Uttar Pradesh government order making a person with two wives ineligible for recruitment as Urdu teachers in schools has drawn flak from Muslim Personal Law Board, which said these riders were ...