Chidambaram said while he supported the idea that all languages should be developed, he will never accept that Hindi can alone unite the country. read more

Rajnikanth said the language should not be imposed and any attempts to do so would be resisted by southern states. read more

Amit Shah’s tweet on ‘Hindi Diwas’ that a common language would become “the mark of India’s identity globally” had sparked a firestorm of protest in South India. read more

At a function to celebrate Hindi Diwas in New Delhi’s Vigyan Bhawan, Shah said the government would celebrate Hindi Saptah (week) publicly from 2020 and the language would reach monumental heights by the 2024 general elections. read more

Home Minister Amit Shah’s comments on Hindi has led to opposition from major political parties from the south. Congress and JD(S) in Karnataka also criticised his call for considering Hindi’s potential to unify India. read more

Union home Minister Amit Shah’s comments that people should increase the use of their mother tongue and also use Hindi to realise the dreams of Bapu (Mahatam Gandhi) and iron man Sardar Patel has stoked a controversy read more

Hindi Diwas 2019: Hindi is written in the Devanagri script and has been strongly influenced by Sanskrit. Its standard form is based on the Khari Boli dialect, belonging to the north and east of Delhi. read more

On and off social media, home minister Amit Shah’s stressed on Hindi was seen as a hint of imposing the language on non-Hindi speaking states. read more

Earlier, Tamil Nadu had opposed the draft national policy on education that called for the adoption of a three-language formula in schools — Hindi, English and the local mother tongue in non-Hindi states. read more

According to the Central Road Research Institute (CRRI), the language barrier is one of the reasons why many large-scale infrastructure projects suffer delays and drop in quality. read more

Amazon’s messaging app in Hindi can be found on its Android app. read more

A majority of these classes focus on application-based learning. read more

The statement comes days after a row erupted over Hindi stickers on road transport corporation (TNSTC) and Metropolitan Transport Corporation of Chennai (MTC) buses in the state. read more

The Jawaharlal Nehru University said such “irresponsible” statements are “undesirable and condemnable” and clarified that the varsity administration has not taken any such decision. read more

Jayakumar’s statement came a day after the Opposition accused chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami of being an apologist for the Centre’s three-language formula proposed in the draft New Education Policy (NEP). read more