Pakistan is dropping English as its official language and switching to Urdu, a popular language in the Indian subcontinent. The long-rumored change was confirmed by Pakistani Minister of Planning, ...

The government’s decision to revert to Urdu as the medium of instruction in public schools up till Grade 3 this year has been met with reservations by some teachers who insist that it should apply up ...

THE Punjab government recently announced that, come March 2020, the medium of teaching at government primary schools will switch from English to Urdu, reversing a system introduced by the Shahbaz ...

The polity of our national confusion on most issues facing the country stems from the unresolved adoption of a single medium of instruction in schools. Living in a part of Lahore, which is the ...

In the past year, many producers known predominantly for their work in commercial English theatre are now transitioning into commercial Urdu theatre. The trend is part of an effort to cater to a ...

La Martiniere College has become the first English medium school in the city to introduce Urdu as an optional subject in classes up to VIII.The subject will be taught from the current academic session ...

While many nations are adopting English, Pakistan is going the opposite way, with the Supreme Court ruling for it to be replaced with Urdu as the official language. Urdu is beautiful, vastly ...

Bilingualism, in many cases even multilingualism, being a special quality of most Indians, it comes as no surprise that many scholars working in various English Departments of Indian universities and ...