Varanasi: Like he surprised all his invitees at the marriage of his daughter three years ago, Jaunpur's Naushad Ahmad Dubey ...

Iqbal was just a boy, a teenager brimming with the quiet dreams that define youth. Of course we are Urdu-speaking, a cultural ...

In a twist of fate, Aditya Dhar's 'Dhurandhar', originally set in Pakistan, found its new home in the vibrant landscapes of ...

A Sydney man of Pakistani origin says he's been targeted with abuse by people falsely accusing him of being one of the ...

The last two decades have transformed the ecology of literary culture worldwide, but perhaps nowhere more dramatically than in the geographically dispersed world of Urdu letters. Social media, with ...

An ordinary wedding it was not, for its invitation card carried a unique double-barrelled surname with roots in 17th-century India, straddling two communities with an ease one suspects ever ...

A prayer meet in memory of legendary actor Dharmendra was held by his wife, Hema Malini, in Mathura. Malini delivered an ...

Dharmendra in the last days of his lifestarted writing poetry in Urdu, and this had become his new passion. However, it never ...

BBC News Urdu has launched TV programme Jahan Numa (Window to the World) on Pakistan’s TV channel Aaj News. Broadcast on Aaj News at 19:30 local time (14:30 G ...

Chairman IEI JKSC, Er Ferdous Ahad Bhat, emphasized the urgent need to institutionalize safe and resilient construction ...

With Title VI support gone, the University of Wisconsin-Madison will end Filipino language instruction and restructure others ...

In an exclusive interview with Independent Urdu, Aleema Khan says family had previously been told there was a plan to ...