The court emphasised that Urdu, like Marathi and Hindi, is an Indo-Aryan language born on Indian soil and enriched over centuries. It added that the idea of associating Urdu with a particular ...

The petition argued that the use of Urdu was prohibited under the Maharashtra Local Authorities Official Languages Act, 2022.

"The prejudice against Urdu stems from the misconception that Urdu is alien to India. This opinion, we are afraid, is ...

Urdu, like Marathi and Hindi, is an Indo-Aryan language. It is a language which was born in this land, says a Bench led by ...

Language is not religion and to consider Urdu as a language of Muslims is a "pitiable digression" from reality and unity in ...

Urdu, like Marathi and Hindi, is an Indo-Aryan language and is not alien to India as it was born and got flourished here, the Court said.

The Supreme Court has affirmed the use of Urdu on the signboard of Patur Municipal Council in Maharashtra, emphasizing that ...

Awadhi, established as a literary language in the 14th century and widely spoken in Uttar Pradesh and surrounding regions, ...

Non-Hindi-speaking states needed to teach the local language, Hindi and English. Hindi comes from the Indo-Aryan language family while Tamil comes from a distinct and separate Dravidian family.

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Over the last few days, Maharashtra has seen the eruption of yet another language agitation in the state, with Raj Thackeray’s Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) confronting workers of various ...

Research also shows that language similarity impacts learning ease. Speakers of Marathi, Punjabi, and Odia (Indo-Aryan languages family) experience facilitative transfer when learning Hindi as L3 ...