India's new education policy forces schools to drop foreign languages, sparking debate over global outlook versus national ...

Do you know which language is most spoken in South India? It boasts 85 million native speakers and a 2,000-year history.

India is a land of unparalleled diversity. It is a country where more than 1.4 billion people coexist, representing an astonishing array of cultures, religions, traditions, and languages. At the heart ...

A BJP poster issued on World Hindi Day on January 10, 2018, quotes Prime Minister Narendra Modi as saying that “Today, the entire world recognizes the power and might of the Hindi language.” Credit: ...

Alexa now speaks India’s most popular language, as Amazon seeks new ways to reach more than half a billion potential users in the country. The company’s popular voice assistant can now speak and ...

India may be the world’s fastest growing smartphone market, but millions of people in the country face difficulties in operating these handsets because of a big language barrier. But those problems ...

New Delhi (CNN) — When British traders landed on India’s shores in the 1600s, they arrived in search of spices and silk but stayed for centuries – leaving behind a legacy that would shape the nation ...

The promotion of Hindi has not sufficiently encouraged the growth of other Indian languages, despite the constitutional commitment to linguistic diversity (“An English professor writes: Why Hindi is ...

Make Indian Sign Language an official language and open more schools for deaf and hard-of-hearing students, Cambridge study advises Indian Government UNDER STRICT EMBARGO UNTIL 15:30 INDIA STANDARD ...

People around the world speak about 7,100 languages today. Some languages, such as Tamil and Sanskrit, have been around for thousands of years. Others, like Afrikaans, are much newer, appearing only ...