PATNA: Mohammad Absar did not use unfair means in his law examination. Nor did he leave his paper blank. Yet, Patna University has penalised him by awarding zero in a paper. His fault, according to ...

“THE United States and Great Britain are two countries separated by a common language”. This famous quote, attributed to George Bernard Shaw, sounds funny and educative at the same time. But it is not ...

If someone thinks Urdu short stories are a thing of the past when writers such as Manto, Bedi, Krishan Chandar and Ismat Chughtai ruled supreme, they are mistaken. “Just in the past one year, 102 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Every writer, like every immigrant, lives in an imaginary homeland, a dream-world — the one attempts to realise ...

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 ...

"We had just 2-3 students earlier and most of them were from an old age group.People whose families have an association with Urdu often learn the language out of curiosity. LUDHIANA: Punjabi language ...