The West Bengal Urdu Academy postponed a poetry symposium featuring Javed Akhtar after religious groups protested his invitation, citing that his comments hurt their sentiments. While the Academy ...

The State-run West Bengal Urdu Academy, which was all set to hold a four-day festival to celebrate Urdu in Hindi cinema, has put off the event following opposition from some Islamic organisations to ...

Poet-lyricist Javed Akhtar on Monday asserted that he believed he was “doing something right as long as both” Hindu and Muslim fundamentalists were abusing him, his comments coming against the ...

The Bengal unit of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind is headed by Trinamool Congress leader and Bengal minister Siddiqullah Chowdhury. Kolkata: The West Bengal Urdu Academy has postponed a four-day cultural ...

Javed Akhtar’s Kolkata event postponed by the West Bengal Urdu Academy. Left student organizations protest attack on secularism and intellectual freedom. No clarification on rescheduled programme. The ...

The West Bengal government run Urdu Academy scrapped a literary festival after Islamist groups opposed invitation to renowned lyricist and poet Javed Akhtar. The 'Free Speech' Lobby has gone ...

KOLKATA: The West Bengal Urdu Academy has indefinitely postponed a mushaira (poetry symposium) featuring Javed Akhtar, which was scheduled for Monday evening, following protests by religious groups ...

Civil rights groups have criticised the West Bengal Urdu Academy for postponing a four-day literary event after Islamic groups objected to poet-lyricist Javed Akhtar’s participation, reported The ...

Pakistan's delegate to the United Nations in New York Saima Saleem says Pakistan, together with the international community, had condemned the Pahalgam incident. In a sharp verbal reaction to Indian ...

Eminent film star, Saima Noor has said that Pakistan film industry has been progressing for the last many years. In a media interview in Lahore, she was of the view that local film industry was ruined ...

Uniindia: Hyderabad, Aug 30 (UNI) Urdu Academy Chairman Taher Bin Hamdan announced that the state government has agreed to provide 100 computers to Urdu journalists through the Backward Classes and ...

The West Bengal Urdu Academy's decision to invite poet-lyricist Javed Akhtar as chief guest for a Kolkata mushaira has triggered protests from two Muslim groups. The Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind and the ...