Online Urdu Newspapers And Urdu Poetry Websites Of India, Pakistan And Around the World

India has a vibrant Urdu press though circulation of newspapers is much higher in Pakistan. However, in India, Urdu papers are published from far and wide across the country.

Apart from Delhi, which is a major centre, Lucknow, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Kolkata & Sri Nagar have papers that are now online.

In Southern India, particularly, Deccan, the four main papers are Siasat, Munsif, Etemaad and Sahara. The papers of Bangalore viz. Pasban, Salar, Bhopal's Nadeem & Urdu Action, popular Kolkata papers Azad Hind and Aabshaar are yet to have websites.


Best Urdu Websites

Roznama Rashtriya Sahara, Delhi
Inquilab, Mumbai [also epaper]
Siasat, Hyderabad
Aag, Lucknow [Epaper]

Sahafat, Lucknow
Munsif, Hyderabad
Urdu Times, Mumbai
Akhbar-e-Mashriq, Calcutta

While Roznama Sahara is now published from ten centres, Inquilab has expanded in UP. Both websites also put up epapers.


URDU NAI DUNIYA WEEKLY
Aalami Sahara weekly
Chauthi Duniya weekly
Dawat [published once in three days]


Still, around 30 Indian Urdu newspapers have websites on the net. This is no mean feat. It shows that Urdu press is eager to adapt itself to new technology and is ahead of many other important regional languages that have barely a couple of papers on the net.

The online newspapers also include Akhbar-e-Mashriq, Pratap, Aurangabad Times, Markaz, Lashkar, Andaleeb, Hamara Maqsad, Siasi Ufaq, Urdu Net, Qaumi Tanzeem, Farooqi Tanzeem, Nadia Times and Awadhnama.

Hindustan Express, Delhi
Etemaad, Hyderabad
Jadeed Mail, Delhi
Milap, Delhi

While major papers now have editions from Jharkhand [Ranchi] and Uttarakhand [Dehradun-based Sahafat], several parts including Madhya Pradesh have no online papers. Andhra Pradesh has several papers. But Karnataka's famous weekly Nasheman and Zamzam are yet to have a web presence.

Aurangabad Times, Aurangabad [Maharashtra]
Hamara Samaj, Patna
Sahil Online, Bhatkal [Karnataka]

Mashriq, Kashmir
Aftab, Kashmir
Chattan weekly, Kashmir

IMPORTANT NEWSPAPERS OF PAKISTAN [WEBSITES]

Jang, Pakistan
Nawa-i-Waqt, Pakistan
Express, Lahore
Jasarat

Urdu Times USA, America

Websites on Urdu poetry and Literature [Shaayri-Adab]

1. Best Ghazals and Nazms [Urdu, Hindi, Roman scripts]
2. Urdu Point [Urdu script]
3. Urdu Life [Read and listen poetry. Urdu/Roman scripts]
4. Urdu Poetry [Roman script]
5. Urdu India [Literature News, Poetry]


[Most of the Urdu newspapers in India didn't have websites till a few years ago. When this list was first compiled, there were barely half-a-dozen papers. But computerization began fast in the last couple of years. Recently many papers have started online editions. There are many other websites on Urdu shayari that you can find elsewhere also. The list here is my personal selection and includes my blogs.]



Among the major Urdu newspapers of India are:


Roznama Sahara [Delhi, Lucknow, Kolkata, Kanpur, Gorakhpur, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Patna, Kolkata], Sahafat [Delhi, Lucknow, Dehradun and Mumbai], Hindustan Express [Delhi], Akhbar-e-Mashriq, Aabshaar, Azad Hind, Akkas [Kolkata], Aag [Lucknow], Qaumi Khabrein [Lucknow], Nadeem [Bhopal], Urdu Action [Bhopal], Inquilab, Urdu Times, Hindustan [Mumbai], Siasat, Munsif, Rahnuma-e-Deccan, Etemad [Hyderabad], Milap, Hind Samachar [Jalandhar, Punjab], Pasban, Salar [Bangalore] and Musalman [Chennai].

Weekly papers like Nasheman, Nai Dunia, Alami Sahara also have a fair circulation. Urdu papers are also doing well in Kashmir. As far as circulation is concerned, the situation is far better in Pakistan where Jang alone sells over a million copies a day. It also has editions from Europe, particularly, London.