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National seminar on Urdu language in Jammu

Jammu, Feb 27: A two-day seminar on 'Secular Character of Urdu Language', will be held at the University of Jammu from March 1.

Addressing the mediapersons here yesterday, seminar director Prof Shoaib Inayat Malik said 40 personalities across the country agreed to participate in the national-level seminar, which would discuss the secular character of the language.''Urdu language has played a vital role in the freedom struggle of Indian history and simultaneously it has produced hundreds of celebrities''' Prof Inayat said.''Though Urdu is an official language here in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, it is being ignored and not getting its due share in various fields,'' he said, adding, ''in the different sessions of the seminar, papers will be presented on the secular character of the language, which will later be published in the form of a book.''



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Cross-border intrusions controllable: Shivraj Patil

New Delhi, May 16: Information about apprehension of foreign intruders indicates a decline in infiltration on India-Pakistan and India-Bangladesh borders, Minister for Home Affairs Shivraj Patil said today. ''There is no significant incidence of cross-border intrusion of foreigners in the Indo-Bhutan, Indo-Nepal, Indo-Myanmar and Indo-China borders,'' he told the Rajya Sabha during Question Hour. India-Bangladesh border was vulnerable to infiltration due to poor economic conditions on Bangladesh side, porous and riverine border, high.....
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