Shiva's body is "like a glittering sapphire", he is "knowledge, nectar, action", the "Granter of Salvation": these encomiums ...

Death anniversary of classical Urdu poet Mir Taqi Mir is being observed today. Born in Agra in 1723, Mir breathed his last on ...

Punjab University Library Book Club Friday organised introductory talks on two books—one in English and another in Urdu.

THE retired Colonel living next to my house is well past 80 but still fit as a fiddle. He is known for his stingy habits, a ...

Bangladesh, then East Pakistan, saw the Bangla language movement in 1952 against the imposition of Urdu by Pakistan. Five ...

Nehru was in all probability an agnostic, not unlike the nastikas of ancient India, the intellectual dissenters who ...

Chain of Light,” an album of four qawwalis the Pakistani singer recorded in 1990, are arriving after being discovered in the ...

In a landmark event, Bangladesh commemorated the death anniversary of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah in Dhaka for the first ...

Bazm-e-Urdu Qatar (BUQ) held a programme that brought together poets, writers, and literature enthusiasts from the Urdu-speaking community in various ...

More than 50 bookstores lined Urdu Bazaar in the 1970s, but just 5 are left, all struggling to survive. It’s the last throes of an era of Urdu printing, publishing, and poetry.

The 64th death anniversary of Urdu poet Jigar Muradabadi was observed Monday. He was born on April 6, 1890. His works include ...

The 76th death anniversary of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founding father of Pakistan, was commemorated at the National Press Club in Dhaka with Urdu songs and poetry on Wednesday.  Speakers on the ...