Amit Shah’s clarification about not seeking Hindi’s imposition but only its adoption as a “second language after one’s mother tongue” has divided academics, with many seeing even the toned-d...

Karnataka’s BJP chief minister, B.S. Yediyurappa, said on Monday that all Indian languages were equal, appearing to differ with party president and Union home minister Amit Shah over according prima...

Tripura chief minister Biplab Kumar Deb on Monday, supporting the statement of Union home minister Amit Shah on One Language, One Nation, claimed that if the British didn’t rule India for 200 years,...

Actor-politician Kamal Haasan on Monday warned against the imposition of Hindi on the nation, saying that the promise of 'unity in diversity' is the bedrock of the Indian republic and the battle to up...

Slamming Union home minister Amit Shah for his Hindi language pitch, Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Sunday said it was a 'planned attempt' to stir up a controversy and divert attention from...

The commissioner of the central government-run Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti has described Hindi as the language of national integration and nationalism, two months after a proposal to teach Hindi as a co...

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The Supreme Court on Monday referred to a constitution bench two petitions that have challenged the mandatory singing of two Sanskrit and Hindi prayers in the country’s 1,200 Kendriya Vidyalayas.Pet...

A satirical short story in which officials keep passing the responsibility of rescuing a man trapped under a jamun tree until the buck finally stops at the Prime Minister’s door has been scrapped fr...

New India, not surprisingly, is giving rise to ever-new thought processes. According to the authorities of Panjab University, the National Assessment and Accreditation Council had advised them to merg...