SRINAGAR: On the banks of Dal Lake, the Chinar Book Fair will return in all its glory between Aug 2 and 10, bringing hundreds ...

Book lovers are in for a treat as the Chinar Book Festival returns to Srinagar-this time on a grander scale-starting tomorrow ...

This lecture explains Social Disorganization Theory in Urdu, a key criminological concept that links poverty, urban decay, and weakened community structures to rising crime rates. Perfect for CSS ...

Urdu is spoken by roughly 230 million people globally—largely in Pakistan and India, as well as among diaspora communities around the world.

Singer-songwriter Bilal Maqsood released a second volume of nursery rhymes from children’s puppet show Pakkay Dost on YouTube ...

Senior BJP leader and Rajya Sabha Member, Gulam Ali Khatana, today visited the National Council for Promotion of Urdu ...

An excerpt from a story by Kanhaiyalal Kapoor in ‘Whose Urdu Is It Anyway?: Stories by Non-Muslim Urdu Writers’, edited and ...

Syra Yousuf is stepping into the vibrant universe of Pakkay Dost. The popular actor will be taking on the role of “Mimi” in ...

“Urdu is a mixture of Persian, Arabic and Turkish words formed with the intermingling of invading Muslim armies and local Hindi-speaking Hindus. It’s a Turkish word which means Army camp ...

The Urdu language was born in northern India during the Mughal rule. Linguists and historians say Urdu and Hindi originally developed from Khadi Boli, a dialect of the Delhi region, and Prakrit.