A BBC investigation claims to have uncovered a “shadow industry of law firms and advisers” helping migrants who entered the U.K. legally pose as gay in order to obtain asylum visas.

A shadow industry of law firms and advisers is charging thousands of pounds to help migrants pretend to be gay in order to stay in the UK, the BBC has found. In the first part of a major undercover ...

MISCONCEPTIONS about Urdu prose abound. Many believe Urdu prose hardly existed before the revolution of 1857. Some feel there has never been any scientific or philosophic prose in Urdu and most of ...

Despite the dazzling glare and shimmer of the screen, the yearning for books, conversation, poetry recitations and music remains unremitting. There is a remarkable enthusiasm even in languages other ...

For years, JavaScript has reigned as the undisputed language of the web, powering everything from single-page apps to massive enterprise systems through frameworks like React, Angular, and Vue. But ...

Urdu scholar and translator Rakshanda Jalil’s new collection Whose Urdu is it Anyway? is linked by one theme: to challenge the notion that Urdu is the language of Muslim writers alone, especially in a ...

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 ...

In context: Windows has included a proprietary JavaScript engine since the release of Internet Explorer 3.0 nearly 30 years ago. Technically, JScript is Microsoft's own dialect of the ...

Delhi University on Saturday clarified that the listing of "Muslim" as a 'mother tongue' and the omission of Urdu from its undergraduate admission form was a "clerical error", after the move triggered ...

The Allahabad High Court has ruled that degrees from Jamia Urdu Aligarh are not valid for assistant Urdu teachers in Uttar Pradesh primary schools. The court found the institution was distributing ...

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 ...