Urdu News

Yogi Adityanath' has taken a bold move Now, all UP govt hospitals will have signboards in URDU too Urdu is the 2nd official language of the state

A private school in Kota found itself in the midst of a controversy over a book with numerous Urdu words which is being used to teach a majority of non-Muslim students.

BJP on Sunday used Urdu language to counter the attack by Telangana`s ruling party. BJP tweeted in Urdu the failures of K Chandrasekhar Rao and TRS. Earlier, TRS took a jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP by listing achievements of Telangana government in Gujarati.

Telangana BJP chief Bandi Sanjay Kumar has made a controversial statement He said that the Urdu language will be banned if 'Rama Rajya' comes The Karimnagar BJP MP said this while addressing the Hindu Ekta Yatra

In the video, the two teachers taught students different subjects at the same time The students were extremely distracted as seen in the video

The preliminary investigations in connection to the murder of a Karnataka youth has revealed that not knowing Urdu was not the reason for the murder. On April 4, Chandru, a youth was stabbed to death in JJ Nagar of Bengaluru city. The incident took a communal turn after the state Home Minister claimed that the youth was killed for not speaking in Urdu.

Mehmood, in the 42-minute video recorded in Urdu, said it was necessary for "the jihadi movement to strengthen and expand its activities in the region and target Indian interests.

Recently, BSP leader and newly-elected Meerut mayor Sunita Verma categorically stated that national song Vande Mataram will not be sung ahead of the board meetings.

She has Sri Lankan roots, grew up in Bahrain and is now loving her life in Bollywood. Actress Jacqueline Fernandez says she has embraced everything that Mumbai has to offer and now she has a keen interest to learn the "beautiful" Urdu language.

In a significant ruling, the Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Centre to include Urdu as a language for 2018-19 session of National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) exam.

A plea suggesting making Urdu as a medium for NEET 2017.

The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to hear the plea filed by the Students Islamic Organisation of India (SIO) seeking inclusion of the Urdu language in the NEET.

University said Shah Rukh Khan and founder of Rekhta Foundation Rajiv Saraf will be given honorary doctorates for their extraordinary contribution in the promotion of Urdu language and culture.

Thirteen more Sri Rama Sene activists were on Tuesday arrested in connection with the 'raid' on a school here over alleged forcible teaching of Urdu and Arabic languages, taking the total of arrests in the case to 16, police said.

 Local newspapers failed to hit the stands for the second day in curfew-bound Kashmir after the government's alleged "clampdown" on the media.

The Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly on Wednesday passed the ‘Moulvi Abdul Haq Urdu University Bill-2016’ in the House.

Hafiz Saeed, chief of Jama'at-ud-Da'wah (JuD), a front group of banned militant outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), has questioned Pakistan's decision to adopt Urdu as its national language in a country where majority of people speak Punjabi language.

Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Mohd Salim on Friday said the Sangh Parivar has a problem with the word `Azadi` and all words which originate from Urdu and Persian.

Minority Affairs Minister Najma Heptulla on Thursday sought to downplay Shiv Sena's demand that madrasas should be barred from using Urdu and Arabic as their medium of instruction, saying the saffron party was "unaware" that Urdu was their mother tongue and added she will speak to Sena leaders. "Urdu is mother tongue of those who are learning in madrasas.