Yet, in recent times, some political voices have unfairly targeted Urdu, while others push for the dominance of one language over those who have grown up speaking entirely different tongues.

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 ...

The Supreme Court has recently stated that Urdu is “the finest specimen of Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb" or the “Hindustani tehezeeb" upholding the use of Urdu on a signboard of a municipal council building ...

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 ...

The Supreme Court on April 15 upheld the continued use of Urdu on a municipal signboard in Patur Municipal Council in Maharashtra’s Akola district. The legal question before it Mrs Varshatai vs ...

The Supreme Court while upholding the use of Urdu on a municipal signboard in Patur, Akola district, Maharashtra, rejected the claims that it is alien to India. The order came on a petition filed by ...

(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.

Supreme Court on Urdu Signboard: Upholding the use of Urdu on the signboard of a municipal council building in Maharashtra, the Supreme Court on Tuesday said language is culture and must not become a ...

New Delhi: 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 ...

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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 ...

The recent controversy over the Urdu language in Uttar Pradesh has reignited debates over linguistic identity, communal relations, and political manoeuvring. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s criticism ...