Urdu is born in this land, the Supreme Court has said while describing it as the finest specimen of ‘Ganga Jamuni tahzeeb’ and stating that considering it a language of Muslims is a “pitiable ...

Urdu, like Marathi and Hindi, is an Indo-Aryan language. It is a language which was born in this land, says a Bench led by ...

In a notable decision reinforcing India’s linguistic plurality, the Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the use of Urdu on ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the use of Urdu on the signboard of a municipal council building in Akola district, Maharashtra, stating that “language belongs to a community, to a region, to ...

Supreme Court rejected plea seeking removal of Urdu used on nameboard of a municipal council in Maharashtra's Akola district.

A schism exploited by the colonial powers in dividing the two languages on religion. Hindi was now understood to be the ...

The Supreme Court has upheld the use of Urdu on a Maharashtra municipal council's nameboard, reinforcing that Urdu, ...

Emphasising the cultural significance of Urdu, the top court remarked that the language, despite being born in India, had wrongly come to be associated with a particular religion ...

In a ruling that champions linguistic plurality, the Supreme Court has upheld the use of Urdu alongside Marathi on the ...

Our misconceptions, perhaps even our prejudices against a language, have to be courageously and truthfully tested against the ...

The directive was issued after taking cognisance of reports that some English medium schools in the district were prohibiting students from speaking Marathi.