New Delhi: Barabanki-born scholar and one of the most respected experts on Urdu and other South Asian languages, professor C.M. Naim has died. He completed his Master’s in Lucknow University in 1955 ...

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US President Trump sent letters to several countries, including close allies Japan and South Korea, imposing tariffs starting ...

The Quad statement's language closely followed the UN Security Council’s press statement, which had also avoided identifying ...

In his Facebook post, Shah had called for people-to-people contact between India and Pakistan and supported Diljit Dosanjh.

Anyone pointing out the Centre’s shortfalls – farmers, lawyers, journalists, comedians, activists, students – is branded not 'anti-government' but anti-national.

“In Maharashtra the BJP cannot afford to take electoral risks,” says professor Alok Rai, academic and author who has taught ...

Bhutto-Zardari seems to accept that Pakistani groups have been involved in terror against India in the past but, at the same time, refuses to accept that the ...

Urdu's decline isn’t sudden; it has been a slow fade, not through censorship, but through substitution. And yet, as long as ...

Imran Khan has an obligation to act against terrorist groups on Pakistan's soil and his offer of dialogue should be matched by evidence on the ground.

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