The last two decades have transformed the ecology of literary culture worldwide, but perhaps nowhere more dramatically than ...

Delhi celebrated the Urdu language at the Jashn-e-Rekhta Festival, while Haryana Sahitya Akademi hosted a seminar on ...

Praises Modi for linguistic respect Correspondent LUCKNOW, Dec 1: Speaking at the Fifth International Urdu Conference held at ...

The festival that opened with a conversation with veteran poet Gulzar will feature conversations with Javed Akhtar, mushairas ...

In this week’s Urdunama, the spotlight falls on a deceptively simple word: Soch, the private lens through which we view the world, and often, the quiet architect of our joy, pain, and self-mythology.

A new release featuring British pop star Zayn Malik singing in Urdu has gone viral in South Asia, and it's giving fans in the West a taste of Pakistani music. ONE DIRECTION: (Singing) Baby, you light ...

A video of popular actor Hania Aamir speaking Urdu in a Lahori Punjabi accent has taken social media by surprise, generating ...

Who does Urdu belong to? India's right-wing seems to think it's a foreign import, forced upon by so-called Islamic invaders. The latest fracas happened in April when a reporter from a far-right news ...

Even as she won the Uttar Pradesh Sahitya Akademi Award and Soviet Land Nehru Award later in her life, she is not widely ...

Showcasing BBC News Urdu’s network of correspondents, Jahan Numa brings global and regional news stories to serve its diverse audiences ...

SDPI workers protested at Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar railway station in Maharashtra over the absence of Urdu on signage after ...

Police on Monday detained several workers belonging to the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) after they tried to prot.