Urdu ranks fourth, following Pashto (16%) and Saraiki (14%). Yet, the country’s legal system, military, mass media, and education sectors operate primarily in Urdu and English. Punjabi, despite its ...

He also cited the example of Punjabi and Saraiki, the latter spoken in districts of Punjab ... classifying it as a native Indian language while marking Urdu as foreign. Majeed notes that sections of ...

The court upheld the use of Urdu, alongside Marathi, on a signboard in Maharashtra, dismissing the misconception that Urdu is foreign to India. It cautioned against associating language with ...

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 ...

(HT_PRINT) The Supreme Court on April 15 upheld the use of Urdu on the signboards of a municipal council in Maharashtra, saying that Urdu and Marathi have the same status under the Constitution.

The Supreme Court rejected a plea by former councillor of Patur town, challenging the use of Urdu on the signboard of the municipal council of Patur. The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the use of ...

The Supreme Court has said it is a “pitiable digression from reality” to believe that Hindi is the language of the Hindus and Urdu of the Muslims. A language is only a means of communication ...

Upholding a decision of the Bombay High Court, a top court bench comprising Justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and K Vinod Chandran dismissed a plea seeking the removal of an Urdu signboard placed beneath ...

PREMIUM The bias against Urdu showed its face during the framing of a Constitution for independent India, but the noble architects of that wonderful charter of governance adopted in 1950 did their ...

India’s top court upheld the use of Urdu on public signboards in Maharashtra, rejecting the notion that the language was alien to the country. The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that Urdu and ...

This time, the cross-border cultural exchange will deepen as "Jongli" becomes the first Bangladeshi film to be dubbed in Urdu for its release in Pakistan. The film's Pakistani distribution is ...

Shagufta Anjum, a student of Government Composite Urdu High School at Sirsi in Uttara Kannada district, has emerged as one among the toppers in Karnataka with a score of 625 marks out of 625.