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A major clash broke out between ABVP and Leftist students at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) over the selection of election committee members at the School of Languages on Thursday night, leaving some students injured.
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Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud on Thursday (Dec 7) announced that the Keshavananda Bharti judgement is now available in 10 Indian languages on the website of the Supreme Court.
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NEP 2020 emphasizes the significant cognitive advantages of multilingualism for young learners, particularly when they are exposed to multiple languages from the foundational stage, with a specific focus on their native language.
Members of Parliament will no longer have to depend on English or Hindi translations in Parliament and can listen to proceedings in their own languages.
In a landmark decision, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs has approved conducting Constable (General Duty) examination for the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) in 13 regional languages, in addition to Hindi and English.
Snehdeep sang the popular track from the movie Brahmastra starring Alia Bhatt and Ranbir Kapoor. The song was originally sung by Arijit Singh. Snehdeep mesmerised the internet by crooning to the beautiful track in Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu and Hindi.
Union Ministry of Tourism, in consideration of the security concern of tourists, has set up a 24x7 functional tourist info-helpline. The helpline functions in 12 languages, out of which 10 are international languages.
"I have spoken to the Chief Justice, senior judges of Supreme Court, all Chief Justices of High Courts that in future we must give priority to local languages," Rijiju claimed.
Kiren Rijiju said that the government is making efforts to collect legal glossaries published in regional languages, digitize them and make them available to the public in a searchable format.
Actor Ranveer Singh urged everyone to sign a petition that appeals to include Indian sign language as the 23rd official language in the Constitution of India.
He said, “I have learnt 17 programming languages including Java and Python,” the 13-year-old added. Further, Sivram claimed, “I am one of the youngest children to have learnt 17 computer languages at the age of 13.” He also went on to say that he plans to create Artificial Intelligence for auto-pilot in India with low investment.
“Sanskrit is the number one, most requested language at Google Translate, and we are finally adding it. We are also adding the first languages from northeast India, which is another rather underrepresented place.”
Speaking on the occasion Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said that Sanskrit is not just a language, it is an emotion. Our knowledge and wisdom are our wealth.
Vice President said that it was wrong not to have shifted to mother tongues and Indian languages after the colonial rule ended.
Lauding the move of 14 engineering colleges across eight states to offer courses in regional languages, Vice President Venkaiah Naidu has urged more educational institutions, particularly those imparting technical and professional studies to follow suit
'People should know it's meaning & importance', BJP leader requests Muslim religious bodies to recite Azaan in Indian languages instead of Arabic
With an aim to make India "Atmanirbhar", PM Narendra Modi had laid down a vision "Atmanirbhar Bharat" in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, the 'Aatmanirbharta' word has been named by Oxford Languages as its Hindi Word of the Year 2020 as it "validated the day-to-day achievements of the countless Indians who dealt with and survived the perils of a pandemic".
The Union Government on Wednesday approved a historic amendment by announcing the National Education Policy 2020 (NEP 2020) which aims to 'reform' the education system from rote learning to retaining the 'core essentials'.
Calling for constant dialogue, exchange of ideas and interaction between Indian languages to strengthen the cultural, linguistic and emotional unity of the country, Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu addressed the 8th meeting of the Hindi Salahkar Samithi of the Rajya Sabha, in Hyderabad today.
Currently, out Of 7,000 indigenous languages spoken today, four in 10 are in danger of disappearing, rights experts said on Wednesday, in a call for a decade of action to reverse the “historic destruction” of age-old dialects.
The President of India, Ram Nath Kovind, inaugurated the Additional Building Complex of the Supreme Court of India in New Delhi yesterday.
Now, resting all the issues around the languages, HRD minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishak said, “The center is committed to promoting all Indian Languages equally through the New Education Policy in the country”.
ndia has 22 local languages with various dialects. Nowadays, due to the overuse of English, the importance of local language is diminishing. So to promote the Indian local languages, the Information and Broadcasting Ministry has asked all satellite TV channels to display the casting, credits, and titles of Hindi and regional language serials in the respective local languages also.
UN declared 2019 as an “International Year of Indigenous Languages” (IYIL2019) in order to raise the awareness about these languages and promoting the importance these languages in World’s rich heritage and cultural diversity.
Bhasha Sangam a Celebration of Linguistic Diversity which marks the appreciation of the unique symphony of languages of our country has been initiated by the Department of School Education & Literacy has initiated–, last month to December 21.
Introducing a new programme, the students at government schools across the country will get introduced to 22 Indian languages in a span of one month, under a new project initiated by the Ministry for Human Resource Development (MHRD). This project aims at enhancing linguistic tolerance, respect and also promote national integration.
The only resolution adopted at the on-going three-day Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha (ABPS) of RSS emphasized the need to preserve and protect the Bharatiya languages and dialects to save them from getting extinct in near future.
Now education becomes more accessible through the launch of ‘SWAYAM’ an online portal which will have 300 e-courses in Hindi as well as in 10 local languages. These courses, which will start in the next three months, will be on cloud computing, technical English for engineers, management accounting, database management systems and advertisements and publicity.
Venkaiah Naidu
In an emotional appeal underlining the importance of mother tongue for every individual Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu said that everybody should give due respect to their respective mother tongues. Speaking at the foundation stone laying ceremony Naidu urged all not undermine the significance of various regional languages.
As every year, Hindi Diwas is celebrated on this day of September 14 but sadly goes unnoticed. The community of Hindi readers have gone downhill in numbers as compared to larger English-reading crowd. But it appears that they are simply doing what they do best, quietly reading some good Hindi literature while sitting in some corner.
