As the controversy over India's decision to abolish INR500 and INR1,000 notes continues, Chennai-based Urdu scholars have said the Urdu text on new INR2,000 notes is wrong. The new INR2,000 note, ...

Engineers at NED University of Engineering and Technology claim to have developed an Artificial Intelligence-powered application that brings Urdu books to life. The app can convert printed Urdu text ...

Chennai, Nov 12: The newly minted currency of Rs 2,000 denomination seems to incorrect, as per Chennai-based Urdu scholars. According to the scholars, the Urdu word ‘hazaar’s which means thousand has ...

As the nation continues to witness ever increasing incidents adding to the siege of national discourse on objections to halal meat, the hijab and the Azaan, a newer incident has come up, only this ...

It is 2pm, and a seven-year-old boy sits in an after-school Urdu remedial class, his fingers tracing the unfamiliar curves of the words before him. The sentence on the page seems simple enough: “Yeh ...

Municipal commissioner Harshdeep Kamble on Thursday directed education officer in Aurangabad Municipal Corporation, A M Shaikh, to procure Urdu medium school text books from the corporation fund and ...

The launch of BBCUrdu.com is a landmark in online publishing as it is the first news site to use Urdu text, rather than scanned-in images of printed materials. Jon Wurtzel of the development team ...

ISLAMABAD: The federal government is taking several steps to implement Urdu as an official language in all government departments under Article 251 of the Constitution. In this regard, the Ministry of ...

Samajwadi Party MLA Abu Asim Azmi has written a letter to chief minister Prithviraj Chavan asking the latter to rectify 819 'errors' in Urdu text books. MUMBAI: Samajwadi Party MLA Abu Asim Azmi has ...

LAHORE: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has admitted various mistakes in the Urdu text on currency notes and assured the federal ombudsman of correcting these in the upcoming new banknote series. The ...