If you have studied almost any European language, you will have noticed words that felt oddly familiar. French mort (dead) recalls English murder. German Hund (dog) is a dead ringer for hound. Czech ...

Google is bringing its AI-powered conversational search feature, Search Live, to India — launching in English and Hindi — and expanding AI Mode to seven new Indian languages, as the company ...

The controversy in Maharashtra over the imposition of Hindi has once again brought the language to the centre of a national debate. In April, the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Maharashtra government ...

Indian intellectuals—especially Hindus—seem perpetually engrossed in a quarrel over various issues, without a care for resolving them. On many issues, the same arguments have been heard for decades, ...

MUMBAI: Facing criticism over the perceived imposition of Hindi as the third language in schools, chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Monday said the government would seek the views of language ...

MUMBAI: The Maharashtra government on Tuesday took a sharp U-turn over making Hindi the third language in primary schools. Maharashtra Education Minister and Shiv Sena MLA Dada Bhuse said that earlier ...

The Maharashtra government-appointed Language Consultation Committee chairperson Laxmikant Deshmukh has opposed the State government’s decision to make Hindi compulsory. In a letter to Chief Minister ...

MUMBAI: The Maharashtra government has made Hindi a compulsory third language from Std I-V in Marathi and English medium schools in the state as per the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. The ...

Andhra Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister and chief of Janasena Party (JSP) K Pawan Kalyan has said that he “never opposed” the Hindi language – remarks that come amid an ongoing tussle over the ...

World Hindi Day is observed every year on January 10 to celebrate the global influence of Hindi and also promote it for cultural and linguistic unity. On January 10, 2006, former Prime Minister ...