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.

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 ...

The Supreme Court has recently stated that Urdu is “the finest specimen of Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb" or the “Hindustani tehezeeb" upholding the use of Urdu on a signboard of a municipal council building ...

The court upheld the use of Urdu, alongside Marathi, on a signboard in Maharashtra, dismissing the misconception that Urdu is foreign to India. It cautioned against associating language with ...

The Supreme Court on April 15 upheld the continued use of Urdu on a municipal signboard in Patur Municipal Council in Maharashtra’s Akola district. The legal question before it Mrs Varshatai vs ...

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 ...

In a significant judgment, the Supreme Court of India has ruled that Hindi and Urdu are fundamentally the same language, rejecting the long-standing perception that associates Hindi with Hindus and ...

Language does not even represent religion. Language belongs to a community, to a region, to a people; and not to a religion,” the Supreme Court ruled while upholding the use of Urdu on the signboard ...

The top court described Urdu as the finest example of 'Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb' and criticised prejudice against languages, calling such bias a "threat to India's cultural strength". Listen to Story ...

Supreme Court on Urdu Signboard: Upholding the use of Urdu on the signboard of a municipal council building in Maharashtra, the Supreme Court on Tuesday said language is culture and must not become a ...

The Supreme Court rejected a plea by former councillor of Patur town, challenging the use of Urdu on the signboard of the municipal council of Patur. The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the use of ...