An anthology of Urdu short stories attempts to bust stereotypes around who writes in Urdu, and for whom. Editor Rakshanda ...

The Bihar Secondary Education Eligibility Test (STET) 2025 notification has been released. According to the official schedule ...

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A manipulated video of US President Donald Trump apparently faulting India for Pakistan's devastating floods spread online as ...

Intense monsoon downpours have killed hundreds in Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and eastern Punjab provinces in ...

The West Bengal Urdu Academy has postponed a four-day mushaira in Kolkata featuring lyricist Javed Akhtar after protests from some Muslim groups. Organisers cited “compelling reasons” for the delay, ...

The BJP today criticised the West Bengal government over the cancellation of the ‘National Mushaira’ programme organised by the West Bengal Urdu Academy under the Minority Affairs and Madrasa ...

The Mamata Banerjee Government has led itself into a fresh controversy by postponing an Urdu literary meet featuring “atheist” lyricist and poet Javed Akhtar. The Trinamool Congress allegedly ...

Kolkata: With an eye on the Assembly polls due next year, the West Bengal government run by Mamata Banerjee has postponed a literary festival following protests by Islamist groups against the presence ...

Chairman K Srinivas Reddy on Sunday said that Urdu journalists should also adopt words from other languages in reporting, just as English and Telugu media do, and assured that the Academy will provide ...

West Bengal Urdu Academy postponed its festival on ‘Urdu in Hindi cinema’ after Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind and Wahyain Foundation ...