Hindi
- Telangana
Scrap Class 10 boards, EAPCET: Telangana Education Commission recommendations
Hyderabad: In a sweeping set of recommendations that could reshape schooling and higher education in the state, the Telangana Education Commission on Thursday, February 27, submitted its report to Chief Minister Revanth…
- India
Former Doordarshan news reader, Sarla Maheshwari dies at 71
New Delhi: Former Doordarshan newsreader Sarla Maheshwari, one of television’s most recognised faces in the 80s and 90s who embodied a calm far removed from the clamour of televised news bulletins today,…
- India
No place for Hindi in TN then, now and forever: Stalin
Chennai: DMK President and Chief Minister M K Stalin on Sunday, January 25, hailed the “Languge Martyrs” of the state who sacrificied their lives during the anti-Hindi agitation in the past and…
- India
Delhi: BJP councillor threatens African national over not learning Hindi
New Delhi: A video of BJP councillor Renu Chaudhary allegedly threatening an African national for not learning Hindi has gone viral on social media. In the purported video, Chaudhary, who represents Ward…
- India
Delhi: Indian govt deports global Hindi scholar Francesca Orsini
Hyderabad: Globally renowned Hindi scholar Francesca Orsini, a professor of emeritus at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, on Monday, October 20 was barred from entering India…
- India
Hindi should be language of science, judiciary, and police: Amit Shah
Gandhinagar: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said there was no conflict between Hindi and other Indian languages, and stressed that it should not just serve as a spoken tongue but…
- Opinions
Language crisis: Maharashtra government is at the cleft end of a stick
If Hindi was to be taught in schools in Maharashtra schools at the primary level itself, then the state would most likely be required to appoint candidates from outside the state which…
- Opinions
Hindi politics in the land of the Marathi manoos
The likelihood of the estranged political cousins, Uddhav and Raj Thackeray, each leading a political party, coming together as associates in an electoral strategy or merging seems possible but it is Hindi…
- India
Facing backlash, Maharashtra withdraws Hindi language policy orders
Mumbai: Amid a growing chorus against the introduction of the Hindi language in Maharashtra schools from classes 1 to 5, the state cabinet on Sunday, June 29, decided to withdraw two GRs…
- India
Row over Hindi: Marathi literary body opposes three-language formula for Classes 1 to 5
Pune: The Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Mahamandal, an apex Marathi literary body, on Wednesday opposed the Maharashtra government’s decision to adopt a three-language formula for Classes 1 to 5, and said the…
- India
Chhattisgarh govt replaces Urdu-Persian words with Hindi in police record
Raipur: The Chhattisgarh government has replaced Urdu and Persian words used in police official records with Hindi terms that can be easily understood by a layperson, in order to make policing more…
- India
Kerala HC defers govt order mandating Hindi in Lakshadweep schools
Kerala High Court on Monday, June 9, deferred a government order which mandated Hindi as the third language while replacing Mahal and Arabic in schools across Lakshadweep. On May 14, the education…
- Bangalore
‘Bengaluru has given me life’: Man apologises in Kannada after fight with auto driver
After throwing his weight around, insisting to converse in Hindi in an argument with a local Bengaluru auto driver, the non-Kannada speaking man has issued an apology online for his behaviour. In…
- Bangalore
Video: ‘Hindi mein baat karo…’: Man argues with auto driver in Bengaluru
The question of conversing Hindi in non-Hindi-speaking Indian states is fast becoming a national debate. Recently, an auto driver in Bengaluru got into an argument with a non-Kannada speaking person after the…
- Opinions
Hindi brings Marathi back to the centrestage–What next?
More Marathi-speaking people know Hindi in Maharashtra than those in each southern Indian state, which opposes the “imposition” of Hindi. Probably, even more than all those states put together. With more migrants…
