Reuters transmits news in Urdu.
 It is used in education, literature, office and court business, although in practice, English is used instead of Urdu in the higher echelons of government
Apart from religious associations, the differences are largely restricted to the standard forms: Standard Urdu is conventionally written in the Nastaliq style of the Persian alphabet and relies heavily on Persian and Arabic as a source for technical and literary vocabulary, whereas Standard Hindi is conventionally written in Devangar and draws on Sanskrit

