India Languages
Pledge to use mother tongue more: Amit Shah on Int'l Mother Language Day
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday greeted people on the International Mother Language Day, and said it is an occasion to make a resolution to connect with the mother tongue and make it more prosperous. Shah also said that when a person makes his mother tongue prosperous, then all the languages of the country become prosperous and the country will also be prosperous. "This is the day to take resolution to connect with our mother tongue and make it more prosperous... We should take a pledge to make maximum use of our mother tongue," he said. The home minister said when a child reads, speaks and thinks in his mother tongue, it enhances his potential to think, reason, analyse and research. Keeping this in mind, the government under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has emphasised on education in mother tongue through the New Education Policy, he said, adding "this will become the basis of India's bright future".
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Twitter to bring Edit Tweet feature finally: Here's all you need to know
Twitter will be paying close attention to how the feature can impact the way people read, write, and engage with tweets
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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
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Google India adds 5 new languages to its training network for scribes
Tech giant Google on Tuesday expanded its News Initiative Training Network to include five new languages: Punjabi, Assamese, Gujarati, Odia and Malayalam
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Language translation engine Devnagri raises $600,000 in seed round
The platform combines Neural Machine Translation with ML to make the internet accessible to 90% of Indians and solve the problem of "lack of content in Indian languages"
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How IBM researchers enabled AI platform Watson to understand native Hindi
With this, Watson Discovery can understand documents written in Devanagari and extract their meaning, without having to resort to any translation to English
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Hindi added most speakers in 10 yrs: Where do other Indian languages stand?
Marathi with 83 million speakers displaced Telugu (81 million) to become the third most common mother tongue after Hindi and Bengali
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