Urdu

Bangladesh observed the death anniversary of Jinnah with speakers calling him the creator and father of Bangladesh

In February 2012, Mamata Banerjee made Urdu the second language in areas of West Bengal where the population of Urdu speakers was equal or more than 10%.

Urdu portal ‘Rekhta’ displayed a book in its e-books list titled ‘Sawaneh Umri Ghazi Ilmuddin Shaheed’, which means ‘a biography of martyr Ilmuddin’. Ilmuddin killed author and publisher Mahashay Rajpal on 6th April 1929 in Lahore.

Urdu portal 'Rekhta' is promoting a book that glorifies Islamist Ilmuddin who killed Mahashay Rajpal in 1929 over 'blasphemy'.

Uttar Pradesh govt has decided to remove Urdu-Persian words from registry documents and replace them with generic Hindi words

Ashraf expressed his disappointment over the Congress government continuing with the Rs 1 lakh grant for the Urdu Academy announced by the previous BJP government instead of raising the amount.

Adipurush dialogue writer chose Muntashir as pen name as he considered Shukla surname has no Vajan (weight) to estabilish him as a Urdu poet.

Urdu posters and banners used in Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) rally in Malegaon town in the Nashik District

Insisting that the 'love jihad' angle be investigated in connection with the death case of actor Tunisha Sharma, the actress's mother said that Sheezan Khan was teaching Urdu to Tunisha

PM Sheikh Hasina also spoke about the Language movement of 1952 that culminated into the creation of Bangladesh in 1971.