Although Urdu is Pakistan’s national language, an interesting debate that often resurfaces is that the native speakers of Urdu hardly constitute 10 per cent of Pakistan’s population. Prof Fateh ...

According to a Urdu lecturer at a government college in Kota district, there are over a dozen Hindu college lecturers and around 60 school lecturers who are teaching the language in Rajasthan. Even as ...

It is 2pm, and a seven-year-old boy sits in an after-school Urdu remedial class, his fingers tracing the unfamiliar curves of the words before him. The sentence on the page seems simple enough: “Yeh ...

PESHAWAR: An Urdu teaching facility opened its doors to public on Sunday. There are many centres for teaching English and other foreign languages like Arabic, French and German but there is no centre ...

Many Chinese universities are extending their Urdu teaching programmes. According to China Economic Net, admissions in Urdu are currently open in many Chinese universities. The Beijing Foreign Studies ...

White Coat Black ArtLearning Urdu over FaceTime during the pandemic was a lesson in love for this Ontario family This is a story from White Coat, Black Art's series called Prescription for Resilience: ...

The residents of Pahadganj are furious. In 2014, the Urdu-medium primary school in this neighbourhood in Jaipur city, Rajasthan, was merged with a Hindi-medium senior secondary school that operated ...

Nagpur: “Language doesn’t distinguish itself on the basis of religion, rather, they belong to regions,” says city-based CA Tejinder Singh Rawal. Rawal has been conducting Urdu ...

Bihar's Kishanganj district has mandated private CBSE-affiliated schools to teach Urdu, following a DISHA meeting highlighting its absence. Schools must report compliance to the Bihar Education ...

The number of state secondary schools offering Urdu as a foreign language has almost doubled in the past four years, according to figures released today. According to a report by CILT, the national ...