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New Education Policy moots local language as mother tongue as language of instruction “wherever possible”

New Education Policy 2020.(HT file )

Published on Jul 30, 2020 05:36 pm IST

Lockdown Diaries: Home by Ruth Vanita

Where is home? Homer’s Odysseus said, “Where shall a man find sweetness to surpass his own home…? Not in far lands, though he build a house of gold.” Pictured here, Odyssey and his wife Penelope on his return to Ithaca after 10 years. Illustration after John Flaxman.(Getty Images)

Updated on Apr 09, 2020 05:47 pm IST

House passes resolution for making Punjabi compulsory till Class 10

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Published on Mar 02, 2020 10:10 pm IST

Venkaiah Naidu urges youngsters to take part in nation building

Vice President Venkaiah Naidu during the inauguration of the 10th edition of Bharatiya Chhatra Sansad, in New Delhi on Thursday.(ANI Photo)

Published on Feb 21, 2020 02:19 am IST

India known for peaceful co-existence of all religions: Venkaiah Naidu

Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday said India is known for unity in diversity, pluralistic ethos and peaceful co-existence of all religion(PTI)

Published on Feb 16, 2020 08:22 pm IST

Need for digital content in Indian languages, says Vice President Naidu

Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu.(PTI file)

Updated on Feb 16, 2020 08:48 am IST

Special sitting of Vidhan Sabha on Punjabi language on Feb 20: Channi

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Published on Feb 14, 2020 11:21 pm IST

Republic Day 2020: TikTok invites people to wish in their mother tongue and use hasgtag ‘Desh Ki Bhasa’

Republic Day is celebrated each year.(TikTok)

Updated on Jan 25, 2020 05:17 pm IST

Learning to respect another’s point of view

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Published on Jan 23, 2020 10:29 pm IST

Vice President for national movement to promote Indian languages

Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu.(HT file)

Updated on Jan 20, 2020 10:26 am IST

Enable children to learn languages without ignoring mother tongue, says Venkaiah Naidu

Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu.(PTI file)

Published on Nov 21, 2019 10:04 am IST

Medium of teaching upto class 10 should be in mother tongue of students, says Vice President Naidu

Vice President Naidu was addressing an event organised by the RSS-linked Sanskrit Bharati.(PTI file)

Updated on Nov 11, 2019 11:07 am IST

‘Above all I’m a proud Indian,’ Mithali Raj shuts up troll criticising her

Mithali Raj(Twitter)

Updated on Oct 16, 2019 12:41 pm IST

Vice president Naidu says mother tongue vital for survival of civilisation

Vice President Naidu said promoting the mother tongue was important as it is always attacked first by colonial rulers(ANI Photo)

Updated on Oct 07, 2019 01:09 am IST

Efforts should be made to promote Indian languages, says Venkaiah Naidu

All efforts should be made to preserve, promote and propagate Indian languages because, when a language dies, it leads to a loss of cultural identity, Vice President, M Venkaiah Naidu said on Saturday.(PTI)

Updated on Sept 29, 2019 12:09 am IST

Mumbai’s many tongues and linguistic swagger

In Mumbai, language matters less than survival instinct and swagger(Representational photo)

Updated on Sept 19, 2019 01:48 am IST

‘Hindi as a second language’: Amit Shah explains remark that set up huge row

Home minister Amit Shah answered critics over the language row in Ranchi, Jharkhand while addressing the day long Hindustan Purvoday 2019 summit.(HT Photo)

Updated on Jul 01, 2020 03:09 am IST

Row after Amit Shah says Hindi can be nation’s common language

At a function to celebrate Hindi Diwas in New Delhi’s Vigyan Bhawan, Amit Shah said the government would celebrate Hindi Saptah (week) publicly from 2020(PTI)

Published on Sept 15, 2019 01:26 am IST

What RSS said about Hindi as a national language 50 years ago

Home Minister Amit Shah presents an award to author Ashok Chakradhar during the 'Hindi Divas Samaroh' in New Delhi, Saturday, Sept. 14, 2019.(PTI)

Updated on Jun 29, 2020 10:04 pm IST

‘This is India not Hindia’: Tamil Nadu parties reject Amit Shah’s views on Hindi as a national unifier

Home Minister Amit Shah addresses during the 'Hindi Divas Samaroh' in New Delhi, Saturday, Sept. 14, 2019. Hindi Divas is observed to mark the decision of the Constituent Assembly to extend official language status to Hindi on this day in 1949(PTI Photo)

Updated on Jun 29, 2020 10:01 pm IST

My culture is in my art: Rapper Raja Kumari

At 15, she knew she wanted to go the hip-hop way and wanted to make people believe in themselves through her music.(Aalok Soni)

Updated on Aug 07, 2019 02:39 pm IST

Inuktut is a dying language in Canada

(Unsplash)

Updated on Jul 10, 2019 10:58 am IST

Let’s keep language out of politics

In 1937, C Gopalachari made the use of Hindi mandatory in schools.(FILE PHOTO)

Published on Jun 10, 2019 07:54 am IST

Tamil Nadu CM Palaniswami requests PM Modi to make Tamil optional language in other states

In Tamil Nadu, leaders cutting across party lines have said the state would not tolerate any imposition of the third language.(PTI FILE)

Published on Jun 05, 2019 02:08 pm IST

After protests in south, govt tweaks Hindi formula in draft education plan

According to the draft National Education Policy that was made public by the new government, the three-language formula should be introduced at an earlier stage in schools.((Ministry of HRD/Twitter))

Updated on Jun 03, 2019 03:33 pm IST

‘Hindi not our mother tongue, don’t incite us’: Raj Thackeray’s party on draft education

Joining ranks with the recent protests over the pan-India three language formula proposed in the draft National Education Policy 2019, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena on Sunday spoke against enforcement of Hindi asserting that it is not their mother tongue.(Kunal Patil/HT Photo)

Updated on Jun 03, 2019 01:02 pm IST

‘No one in north is learning Malayalam or Tamil’: Shashi Tharoor on draft policy’s Hindi formula

Shashi Tharoor doing the rounds of Vattiyoorkavu Assembly constituency to thank voters on June 2, 2019.

Updated on Jun 02, 2019 06:09 pm IST

Efforts on to introduce ‘inhuman’ religion in India, says West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee

Banerjee urged people not to pay heed to provocations meant to create differences among them and stay united.(PTI)

Updated on Feb 22, 2019 10:55 am IST

Advantages of learning different languages are many, shows research

Studies suggest that multilingualism has its benefits.(Getty Images)

Updated on Feb 13, 2019 07:18 pm IST

At 71, Kapil Sibal forays into Punjabi music with love song

(HT File)

Updated on Oct 30, 2018 02:47 pm IST

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