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Hindi is not a competitor but friend of all regional languages: Amit Shah

Hindi language is not a competitor but a "friend" of all the other languages in the country, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said here on Wednesday as he denounced the "disinformation" campaign to pit Hindi against regional languages. He underlined the need to strengthen regional languages by keeping Hindi together. Addressing the All India Official Language Conference in Surat city, Shah said that accepting the co-existence of languages was needed and stressed the need to make Hindi flexible by taking words from other languages to expand its dictionary. "I want to make one thing very clear. Some people are spreading disinformation that Hindi and Gujarati, Hindi and Tamil, Hindi and Marathi are competitors. Hindi cannot be a competitor to any other language in the country. You must understand that Hindi is the friend of all the languages of the country," Shah said. He said regional languages in the country will prosper only when Hindi prospers, and vice versa. "Everybody should acce

BHARAT: An Indian font that integrates elements from 12 languages

India's top typographers at Rediffusion Design Studios have been working hard for the past six months to create a font that would be intrinsically and eternally Indian

SoftBank-backed Meesho adds 8 Indian languages to tap more users

Social commerce platform seeks to widen reach during festival season in the country

President Kovind calls for promotion, growth of Bodo language, literature

Addressing Bodo Sahitya Sabha, Kovind said it has played a significant role in ensuring that Bodo is included as a medium of education in both school and higher educational institutions

PM bats for local languages in courts to boost confidence in judiciary

We need to encourage local languages in courts. This will not only increase the confidence of common citizens in the justice system but they will feel more connected to it: Modi

Discussion needed with other CMs: Mamata on increased pitch for Hindi

Banerjee was replying to queries regarding Union Home Minister Amit Shah's recent remarks over the importance of Hindi at an event in New Delhi

Communication breakdown

The Hindi-primacy debate has lost its relevance

Meta's counter to hate speech: Ten fact checkers in 11 languages

Meta also has people reviewing potentially problematic content in 20 Indian languages

Kochi based startup Avodha offers courses in vernacular languages

Through Avodha, student pays a small amount upfront which is roughly one-fourth of the overall fees and remainder is paid after student gets a job related to course they have studied

Need innovative ways to promote Indian languages: Vice President Naidu

Observing that language is not a static concept, he stressed the need to adopt a dynamic and proactive approach to enrich languages.

V-P Naidu lauds engineering colleges offering courses in regional languages

Lauding the move of 14 engineering colleges across eight states to offer courses in regional languages, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Wednesday

Made in Bharat

Mocking new health minister Mansukh Mandaviya's English underlines the political elitism Modi's India has rejected.

Odia to Malayalam: Name a major Indian language and there's an OTT for it

As the market for watching drama and series online booms, all of India's diversity is getting play with more than 60 OTTs jostling for space

People's movement needed for preservation of our languages: Venkaiah Naidu

Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu addressed the 6th Anniversary of Rashtrethara Telugu Samakhya and said that people's movement is needed for the preservation of our languages

CoWIN website to be available in Hindi and other regional languages soon

This follows criticism of the government that CoWIN was a barrier in vaccinating people in rural India

IBM engaged in research to arm computers with Indian languages

IBM is engaged in research on Indian languages in a bid to develop new artificial intelligence applications in key industries

First JEE exam under NEP kicks off in thirteen Indian languages

The JEE mains examination commenced on Tuesday

Google Maps improves discoverability in several Indian languages

Google Maps said it has incorporated an ensemble of learning models that automatically transliterate the names of points of interest (POIs) to 10 prominent local languages

President Kovind gives assent to Jammu and Kashmir Official Languages Bill

The Jammu and Kashmir Official Languages Bill, 2020, was passed by Parliament in the recently concluded Monsoon Session

Parliament passes Jammu and Kashmir Official Languages Bill, 2020

The minister pointed out that around 74 per cent people in the Union Territory spoke Kashmiri and Dogri languages