The paint is chipping off the limestone walls. The lanes are muddy as they lead to the iron gates, which have paintings of ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

“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 ...

If you do succeed, try thinking entirely in Urdu and see how far you are able to go. As a consequence of all the lack of effort towards helping it grow, Urdu's progress has stagnated.

At no time in Afghanistan’s history did Urdu have more influence in the corridors of power in Kabul than in the 1930s. After Persian, Urdu was also the most widely spoken language by the ...

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.

Urdu has become the latest political hot potato in Jammu and Kashmir. After the row over mandatory knowledge of the language for naib tehsil.