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The Pakistan Water & Power Development Authority (Urdu: واٹر اینڈ پاور ڈویلپمنٹ اتھارٹی), colloquially known as WAPDA, is a Pakistani government-owned public utility agency maintaining hydropower and water in Pakistan, although it does not manage thermal power plants. WAPDA includes Tarbela and Mangla dams among its ...
Note that Hindi–Urdu transliteration schemes can be used for Punjabi as well, for Gurmukhi (Eastern Punjabi) to Shahmukhi (Western Punjabi) conversion, since Shahmukhi is a superset of the Urdu alphabet (with 2 extra consonants) and the Gurmukhi script can be easily converted to the Devanagari script.
The two languages are often considered to be a single language (Hindustani or Hindi-Urdu) on a dialect continuum ranging from Persianised to Sanskritised vocabulary, [174] but now they are more and more different in words due to politics. [152] Old Urdu dictionaries also contain most of the Sanskrit words now present in Hindi. [190] [191]
Both Hindi and Urdu share a core vocabulary of native Prakrit and Sanskrit-derived words. [19] [100] [20] However, Hindi is written in the Devanagari script and contains more direct tatsama Sanskrit-derived words than Urdu, whereas Urdu is written in the Perso-Arabic script and uses more Arabic and Persian loanwords compared to Hindi. [56]
The standardised registers Hindi and Urdu are collectively known as Hindi–Urdu. [13] Hindustani is the lingua franca of the north and west of the Indian subcontinent, though it is understood fairly well in other regions also, especially in the urban areas. [14] This has led it to be characterised as a continuum that ranges between Hindi and ...
Hindi Novel Amritlal Nagar: 1998 Salam Bin Razzaq: Asri Hindi Kahaniyan Samesamayik Hindi Kahaniyan Hindi Short stories Various authors 1999 Haider Jafri Syed Zindaginama-Zinda Rukh Zindagi Nama-Zinda Rukh: Hindi Novel Krishna Sobti: 2000 Anees Ashfaq Kavve Aur Kala Pani Kavve Aur Kala Pani Hindi Short stories Nirmal Verma: 2001 M. Osama Faruqi
The aim of the project is to draw up a full directory of missing content from Urdu Wikipedia organised by topic and sub topic as well as to tag existing articles which need major translation from the other language equivalent and begin to work towards creating the articles or improving an existing article. Once the directory is drawn up, the ...
The WAPDA House (Urdu/Punjabi: واپڈا ہاؤس) is a nine-story office building located in Lahore, Pakistan, that serves as the headquarters of the Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA). It is one of several prominent government buildings located at Charing Cross on Lahore's Mall Road , officially known as Shahrah-e-Quaid-e-Azam. [ 2 ]