Urdu Newspapers

Mumbai attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed has donned the hat of a column writer for a leading Urdu newspaper, stirring a debate among journalists as to how the media house allowed the head of a banned terror group to write on the Kashmir issue and the creation of Bangladesh in 1971.

In the middle of a row over what Rahul Gandhi said at a meeting with Muslim intellectuals recently, an Urdu newspaper asserted that it stood by its version of the Congress president's comments in its June 12 edition. Today, the "Inquilab" newspaper put out another report claiming that its version had been corroborated by the Congress minority cell ...

Is Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan's marriage in trouble, again? Third time's not quite the charm for Imran Khan, news reports from Pakistan seem to suggest. An Urdu newspaper reports that Mr Khan's third wife Bushra Maneka - also his spiritual guide - moved out of their home in Lahore nearly a month ago.

A leading Muslim organisation has asked people not to sacrifice white-coloured animals on Bakrid this Tuesday lest cow vigilantes mistake it for a cow. In front page advertisements published in leading Urdu newspapers, the organisation has come out with a four-point advisory on how the celebrate the festival that is as old as their religion, Islam.

A gang of around 20 men -- allegedly led by the son of a controversial Kolkata Imam who was recently in the eye of a storm over his use of a red beacon -- tried to storm the office of an Urdu newspaper yesterday to protest against its editorials and articles critical of the cleric.

Why aren't Muslim leaders speaking for her, asks Mohd Asim.

Two newspaper vendors arrested by the Mumbai Police for delivering Urdu daily 'Avadhnama' that printed Charlie Hebdo cartoons on its front page, were today granted bail by a city court.

In an act that has caused much surprise and alarm, the JJ Marg police have booked a newspaper vendor for selling the January 17 issue of the Urdu daily Avadhnama, which carried a photo of the cover of the French magazine Charlie Hebdo with the controversial cartoon of Prophet Mohammed.

A deluge of political ads in Urdu newspapers, which, as NDTV's show Truth vs Hype found, make barely concealed - and in some cases, open - appeals for the Muslim vote.

Afzal Guru letter: Afzal Guru had allegedly sent a letter to the editor of an Urdu newspaper in Kashmir in 2008 defending the Parliament attack. Below are the highlights of the letter, translated into English.

A day after the Samajwadi Party (SP) disowned Shahid Siddiqui for interviewing Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, the MP and editor of the Urdu newspaper Nai Duniya, has hit back.

Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi has said that he should be hanged if he is found guilty of complicity in the communal riots in his state in 2002. In an interview to an Urdu newspaper, Nai Duniya, Mr Modi has discussed the riots in which 1200 people were killed, most of them Muslims. The newspaper is edited by Shahid Siddiqui, an MP of the Sa...

The twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad in Andhra Pradesh on Thursday went without newspapers as hawkers joined the ongoing general strike for a separate Telangana state. No newspapers could reach the readers as the hawkers stayed away from distribution of papers. English, Telugu, Urdu and Hindi newspapers were missing from bookshops and news...

Qasab had urged for Urdu newspapers but the court had on Tuesday turned down his plea.

Day 8 into the 26/11 trial comes captured 26/11 terrorist Ajmal Qasab's wish list: Toothpaste, Urdu newspapers, perfume.

Mumbai attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed has donned the hat of a column writer for a leading Urdu newspaper, stirring a debate among journalists as to how the media house allowed the head of a banned terror group to write on the Kashmir issue and the creation of Bangladesh in 1971.

In the middle of a row over what Rahul Gandhi said at a meeting with Muslim intellectuals recently, an Urdu newspaper asserted that it stood by its version of the Congress president's comments in its June 12 edition. Today, the "Inquilab" newspaper put out another report claiming that its version had been corroborated by the Congress minority cell ...

Is Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan's marriage in trouble, again? Third time's not quite the charm for Imran Khan, news reports from Pakistan seem to suggest. An Urdu newspaper reports that Mr Khan's third wife Bushra Maneka - also his spiritual guide - moved out of their home in Lahore nearly a month ago.

A leading Muslim organisation has asked people not to sacrifice white-coloured animals on Bakrid this Tuesday lest cow vigilantes mistake it for a cow. In front page advertisements published in leading Urdu newspapers, the organisation has come out with a four-point advisory on how the celebrate the festival that is as old as their religion, Islam.

A gang of around 20 men -- allegedly led by the son of a controversial Kolkata Imam who was recently in the eye of a storm over his use of a red beacon -- tried to storm the office of an Urdu newspaper yesterday to protest against its editorials and articles critical of the cleric.

Why aren't Muslim leaders speaking for her, asks Mohd Asim.

Two newspaper vendors arrested by the Mumbai Police for delivering Urdu daily 'Avadhnama' that printed Charlie Hebdo cartoons on its front page, were today granted bail by a city court.

In an act that has caused much surprise and alarm, the JJ Marg police have booked a newspaper vendor for selling the January 17 issue of the Urdu daily Avadhnama, which carried a photo of the cover of the French magazine Charlie Hebdo with the controversial cartoon of Prophet Mohammed.

A deluge of political ads in Urdu newspapers, which, as NDTV's show Truth vs Hype found, make barely concealed - and in some cases, open - appeals for the Muslim vote.

Afzal Guru letter: Afzal Guru had allegedly sent a letter to the editor of an Urdu newspaper in Kashmir in 2008 defending the Parliament attack. Below are the highlights of the letter, translated into English.

A day after the Samajwadi Party (SP) disowned Shahid Siddiqui for interviewing Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, the MP and editor of the Urdu newspaper Nai Duniya, has hit back.

Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi has said that he should be hanged if he is found guilty of complicity in the communal riots in his state in 2002. In an interview to an Urdu newspaper, Nai Duniya, Mr Modi has discussed the riots in which 1200 people were killed, most of them Muslims. The newspaper is edited by Shahid Siddiqui, an MP of the Sa...

The twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad in Andhra Pradesh on Thursday went without newspapers as hawkers joined the ongoing general strike for a separate Telangana state. No newspapers could reach the readers as the hawkers stayed away from distribution of papers. English, Telugu, Urdu and Hindi newspapers were missing from bookshops and news...

Qasab had urged for Urdu newspapers but the court had on Tuesday turned down his plea.

Day 8 into the 26/11 trial comes captured 26/11 terrorist Ajmal Qasab's wish list: Toothpaste, Urdu newspapers, perfume.