I did not learn Urdu as a political act. I learned it as a way of being. Before language hardened into identity, before accents were weaponised and scripts scrutinised, before words were asked to ...

On a fog-laden Delhi morning, the staff of a Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) school begins lining up students for assembly. The primary school is tucked into the by-lanes of Old Delhi, the ...

Pakistan has launched its first homegrown Urdu language AI model, Qalb. Developed by Taimoor Hassan, a Pakistani student currently studying in the United States, Qalb is being described as the world’s ...

Pakistan's own Urdu ChatGPT, "Qalb", has officially been launched, marking a historic milestone in the country's digital journey. Developed under the leadership of Taimoor Hassan, a Pakistani student ...

Javed Akhtar shared insights on language, family, and evolving trends in the film industry during a recent session. The popular poet-lyricist schooled a man asking him to choose between Sanskrit and ...

LAHORE: Pakistan’s own Urdu ChatGPT, “Qalb”, has officially been launched, marking a historic milestone in the country’s digital journey. Developed under the leadership of Taimoor Hassan, a Pakistani ...

Abstract: This paper gives an across-the-board comprehensive review and survey of the most prominent studies in the field of Urdu optical character recognition (OCR). This paper introduces the OCR ...

Abstract: Urdu text is a cursive script and belongs to a non-Latin family of other cursive scripts like Arabic, Chinese, and Hindi. Urdu text poses a challenge for detection/localization from natural ...

NEW DELHI: People's Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti on Friday lost her cool with a journalist who asked her to speak in Urdu instead of Kashmiri, which the former Jammu and Kashmir chief ...

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 ...

The 18th Aalmi Urdu Conference will take place at the Arts Council of Pakistan, bringing together scholars, poets, writers, and artists from around the world for discussions, book launches, ...

Nastaleeq, developed in 14th century Iran from the fusion of Naskh and Taleeq, emerged primarily as a Persian calligraphic hand — celebrated for its graceful, hanging rhythm and flowing curves.