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- Hyderabad News
Prof Mohd Zafaruddin, senior faculty from MANUU passes away
Hyderabad: Senior faculty from the Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU) Prof. Mohd Zafaruddin passed away on Monday due to a cardiac attack. He was among one of the earliest employees of the varsity.…
- Hyderabad News
Urdu Academy to conduct week-long workshop to train scholars
Hyderabad: It is the need of the hour to hone the skills of the Urdu Research scholars in keeping with the latest trends in the field of Science and Technology. It is…
- India
RSS chief’s book translated in Urdu, effort to reach out to minority community
New Delhi: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) appears keen to reach out to the main minority community through a book written by its chief Mohan Bhagwat which speaks about the role of Muslims…
- Middle East
Indian Embassy’s festival delights Urdu lovers in Saudi Arabia
Jeddah: The Indian Embassy in Riyadh and the New Delhi-based National Council for the Promotion of Urdu Language (NCPUL) have announced an international Urdu conference to be held in Saudi Arabia. The…
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100 years of Sahir Ludhianvi: A writer who cast himself in the Nehruvian mould
Venkat Parsa Sahir, as the name suggests, is a Jaadugar, who cast his magic spell across generations of people. Sahir combined literary genius, with being a powerful lyricist, who could fire the…
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Murder at the Mushaira; master spy Mirza Ghalib on the case
The backdrop of middle 19th century North India has made for some excellent storytelling, be it the Aamir Khan-starrer Mangal Pandey or William Dalrymple’s The Last Mughal. The latter’s influence is apparent in New Jersey-based Management Professor…
- India
Venkaiah Naidu urges Urdu lovers to preserve its rich legacy
Hyderabad: Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu took to the popular social media platform, Twitter, and tweeted in Urdu to emphasise the importance of one’s mother tongue. Quoting the celebrated poet Daagh Dehlavi, he…
- Hyderabad News
Tributes paid to Nawab Bahadur Yar Jung on death anniversary
Hyderabad: The All India Majlis Taamir-e-Millat (AIMTM) paid tributes to its late leader Nawab Bahadur Yar Jung on the eve of his 76th death anniversary of for uniting Muslims across the country.…
- Hyderabad News
MANUU to revise Urdu textbooks of Madhya Pradesh
Hyderabad: The government of Madhya Pradesh has entrusted Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU) with the responsibility of editing and revising its Urdu medium textbooks. The Hyderabad-based university said on Tuesday that…
- Telangana
Boycott schools failing to offer Urdu as an optional subject
Narainpeth: The AFI former President Dr. Qutubuddin appealed to the parents whose mother tongue is Urdu to boycott those schools that do not offer Urdu as an optional language to their students. …
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Amitabh Baghel: Lover of Urdu
By Mohd Riyaz Ahmed Urdu Hai Jis ka Naam Hameen Jaante Hain Daag Saare JHahan mein Dhoom Hamari Zaban ki Hai. This couplet of Hazrat Daag reflexes the popularity of Urdu language…
- Hyderabad News
Appoint trained Urdu teaching staff without roster system: TSUTTA
Sangareddy: Telangana State Urdu Trained Teachers’ Association (TSUTTA) and Awaz Committee had staged a ‘Dharna’ protest yesterday at Chowk Indira Park, Hyderabad participated by Urdu trained teachers from Sangareddy and other districts…
- Top Stories
For the first time, UN uses Urdu in its communication
By Mohammed Hussain Ahmed Geneva: The United Nations, for the first time in its history, had issued its Secretary General Antonio Guterres’s New Year greeting in Urdu along with its hitherto 6…
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Shamsur Rahman Faruqi–The last of literary titans in Urdu
Written in Urdu by Sibte Hasan Naqvi Translated by Satyanarayana Yellapantula Shamsur Rahman Faruqi is perhaps, the last of the titans who strode the Urdu literary stage, making his powerful voice heard…
- World
‘Kavi Samelan’ attracts budding Urdu, Hindi poets at event in New Zealand
Auckland: The ‘Urdu Hindi Kavi Sammelan’ and ‘Mushaira night’ showcased new faces and fresh talents who showed their passion for poetry and ghazal in Hindi, Urdu and Punjabi language. Held at the…
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Telangana minorities commission asks govt depts, colleges to display Urdu on signboards
Hyderabad: In an effort to implement Urdu language in the state, The Telangana State Minorities Commission, has asked various government and semi-government institutions to display the Urdu language on their signboards. In a…
- India
Urdu Hindi Cultural Association is back with Kavi Sammelan & Mushaira
The Urdu Hindi Cultural Association of New Zealand (UHCANZ) is bringing back the much-awaited and perhaps the only Kavi Sammelan and Mushaira event of the year this weekend. The Association was established…
- World
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 of pride…
- 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, Hyderabad, and…
- 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 policy is…
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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 theme that…
- 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 passed, Urdu…
- 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 royalty all…
- 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. Shams was…
- 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 Urdu medium…
- 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 has stirred…
- 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 historical places…
- News
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 the societal…
- Top Stories
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 in active…
- 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 time were…
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