Nagma Rehman has a lament in her retired life. Ms. Rehman, who retired a year ago as Urdu teacher at the Baxibagh, Government Higher Secondary School in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, says her school has ...

In 'Education among Muslims' (Feb 7), Ather Farouqui implies that withdrawal of state patronage to Urdu is one of the causes for the economic backwardness of Muslims ...

The state education department in Jaipur has instructed a government school to suspend Urdu classes and introduce Sanskrit due to low enrollment in Urdu. Amid protests, it has been claimed that the ...

A decision by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), the country's largest school board, to disallow students from writing board exams in any language other than Hindi and English has left ...

The Central government has allocated Rs. 6,000 crore for higher education textbooks in Indian languages, including Urdu. MANUU has been appointed the nodal agency to develop 2.5 lakh textbooks under ...

ISLAMABAD – Dr Arfa Sayeda Zehra, the renowned scholar and educator, recently highlighted the state of Urdu and broader sociocultural conditions in Pakistan, offering a sharp critique of how the ...

Prakash Javadekar also spelt out a host of schemes for promotion of Urdu in the country. New Delhi: Government is taking steps to promote Urdu language but has no plans to make it compulsory in school ...

No textbooks, lack of teachers and a decreasing number of students, these are some of the problems plaguing Urdu-medium schools in the state. No textbooks, lack of teachers and a decreasing number of ...

For Pakistan’s founders, Urdu was to be the glue cementing together the new country. The pre-partition Muslim League rejected suggestions that English, Hindi, or Hindustani be the official language of ...

Kishanganj (Bihar): District Education of Office (DEO) Nasir Hussain has ordered the private schools affiliated with Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) board in Bihar's Kishanjganj district ...

Expressing concerns over the “deteriorating” quality of education in Urdu-medium schools, the Chairman of the Maharashtra State Minority Commission, Pyare Zia Khan, has proposed converting all Urdu ...