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The Education Secretary will set an ambition for 90% of pupils to reach the expected standard in phonics by the end of year 1. Bridget Phillipson will set out the core tenets of the Government’s ...

Once the lingua franca of North India, spoken in marketplaces, courts, and homes across caste and creed, Urdu today is too often boxed into a single identity — the language of Indian Muslims. But ...

It is 2pm, and a seven-year-old boy sits in an after-school Urdu remedial class, his fingers tracing the unfamiliar curves of the words before him. The sentence on the page seems simple enough: “Yeh ...

Sudha Pai in 2002 stated, “If a language is not characterised by political neutrality, it too often becomes the tool by which this language group seeks to extend its domination over the minority ...

Britain's knighthood to the author Salman Rushdie contributes to insulting Islam and may lead to terrorism, a Pakistani minister has said. Such actions are the root cause of terrorism, Religious ...

The Supreme Court has emphasized that India's linguistic diversity should be celebrated, not be a cause for division. The court upheld the use of Urdu, alongside Marathi, on a signboard in Maharashtra ...

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 has said it is a “pitiable digression from reality” to believe that Hindi is the language of the Hindus and Urdu of the Muslims. A language is only a means of communication and does ...

The recent controversy over the Urdu language in Uttar Pradesh has reignited debates over linguistic identity, communal relations, and political manoeuvring. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s criticism ...

A new study has found evidence of big gains in students’ reading ability from using one specific phonics program—and suggests that consistent implementation is key to getting the strongest results.

Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who passed away on December 26 in New Delhi at the age of 92, is often credited for opening the Indian economy to global competition. But some of his soft skills ...