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Voter ballot papers in the U.S elections offered in Telugu and Urdu
Hyderabad: For the first time ever, the ballot papers for the upcoming United States’ Presidential Elections are offered in Telugu and Urdu, in what can be seen as a special moment…
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Hyderabad News
A discourse of Hyderabadi women’s writings in Urdu
Nazia Akhtar An important book on Hyderabadi women’s writing is Amena Tahseen’s “Hyderabad mein Urdu ka Nisaai Adab” (“Women’s Writing in Urdu from Hyderabad,” 2017). Prof. Tahseen works at MANUU,…
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Telangana
Five days of web workshop for Urdu medium teachers of Telangana
Sakina Fatima Hyderabad: Maulana Azad National Urdu University, in collaboration with Telangana State Urdu Academy, started a five days web workshop for Urdu medium teachers on Monday. The national education…
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Ghazal shines among a long list of movies based on Urdu tahzeeb
Venkat Parsa Ghazal, the film made in 1964, is an enchanting romance, set in the backdrop of the traditional poetic contest between Free Verse and traditional Ghazal. It is a poetic…
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Hyderabad News
Urdu, Arabic missing from Osmania University logo
Hyderabad: Osmania University is the first university of the country which provided higher education through Urdu medium. The 7th Nizam Mir Osman Ali Khan founded the university but as time…
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India
World Urdu Webinar: Urdu too became language of electronic, social media
By FIROZ BAKHT AHMED Bari aristocracy hei zabaan mein Nawabi ka maza deti hei Urdu faqiri mein! (The language is so rich in aristocratic ethos To a pauper it gives a king’s…
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News
Urdu journalist succumbs to COVID-19
New Delhi: Senior journalist of Roznama Rashtriya Sahara Dr Abdul Qadir Shams Qasmi passed away at Majidia Hospital due to coronavirus. He was admitted in the hospital a week ago.…
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Telangana
Online classes must be held in Urdu for Urdu medium students: TUTA
Hyderabad: Telangana Urdu Teacher Association has demanded online classes to be conducted in Urdu for the Urdu medium students. The association has also demanded that the training programs for the…
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India
Govt clarifies as exclusion of Urdu in New Education Policy sparks anger
Waquar Hasan New Delhi: As the New Education Policy (NEP) is believed to have laid stress on the Indian culture, the absence of Urdu from its list of Indian languages…
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Hyderabad News
Hyderabad’s St. Luke’s Hindustani Church still holds service in Urdu
Hyderabad: Chirag Ali Lane is today known for its massive mobile phone market. However, in a quiet corner in the same lane is located one of Hyderabad’s most unique and important…
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Chughtai’s classic read in inaugural online literary session — Baazgasht
Hyderabad: The inaugural session, which took place this past Saturday (August 8) of the online classical Urdu literary forum — Baazgaasht — was a successful one. After Ismat Chughtai’s masterpiece on…
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Noted Urdu journalist, satirist Nusrat Zaheer passes away
Saharanpur: Veteran Urdu journalist and satirist Nusrat Zaheer passes away this evening at his native place Saharanpur at the age of about 70 years. He spent most of his life…
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India
Urdu language survived many vagaries
Syed Qamar Hasan Hyderabad: UNDOUBTEDLY Mujtaba Hussain and Anand Mohan Zutshi, Aka, Gulzar Dehlvi who departed from this vale of tears one after the other in short the span of…
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Hyderabad News
Gulzar Dehlvi, the spirit of Urdu no more
By Firoz Bakht Ahmed Firoz Bakht Ahmed New Delhi: There can’t be a second Gulzar Dehlvi who was the crown of Urdu and the pride of the syncretic Ganga-Jamuni Tehzeeb, who, at…
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India
Urdu poet Gulzar Dehlvi beats COVID-19 at 94
Noida: Us sitamgar ki meherbani se, dil ulajhta hai zindagani se (It’s the kindness of the oppressor, that entangles me more with life). Perhaps nothing more than his own couplet…
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When Urdu humourist Mujtaba Hussain wrote his own obituary
Death is a scary subject. And talking about one’s own death is scarier. But he bucked the trend and wrote a self-obituary during the pink of his health. That was…
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