When a municipal signboard in a small town in Maharashtra bearing Marathi and Urdu became the epicentre of a constitutional predicament, few could have imagined the Supreme Court would respond with a ...

Yet, in recent times, some political voices have unfairly targeted Urdu, while others push for the dominance of one language over those who have grown up speaking entirely different tongues.

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PREMIUM The bias against Urdu showed its face during the framing of a Constitution for independent India, but the noble architects of that wonderful charter of governance adopted in 1950 did their ...

Name Origin: The term “Urdu" comes from the Turkish word ‘ordu’ (meaning “camp" or “army"), pointing to its early development in military camps and marketplaces where diverse linguistic groups ...

The Supreme Court has affirmed that displaying languages other than a state's official language is legal in India, dismissing a plea to remove an Urdu signboard in Maharashtra. The court upheld the ...

Upholding a decision of the Bombay High Court, a top court bench comprising Justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and K Vinod Chandran dismissed a plea seeking the removal of an Urdu signboard placed beneath ...

The Supreme Court while upholding the use of Urdu on a municipal signboard in Patur, Akola district, Maharashtra, rejected the claims that it is alien to India. The order came on a petition filed by ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the use of Urdu language on the signboard of a municipal council building in Maharashtra's Akola district. The bench said saying that "Urdu the finest specimen ...

(HT_PRINT) The Supreme Court on April 15 upheld the use of Urdu on the signboards of a municipal council in Maharashtra, saying that Urdu and Marathi have the same status under the Constitution.