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V-P Naidu lauds engineering colleges offering courses in regional languages

Lauding the move of 14 engineering colleges across eight states to offer courses in regional languages, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Wednesday

Made in Bharat

Mocking new health minister Mansukh Mandaviya's English underlines the political elitism Modi's India has rejected.

Odia to Malayalam: Name a major Indian language and there's an OTT for it

As the market for watching drama and series online booms, all of India's diversity is getting play with more than 60 OTTs jostling for space

People's movement needed for preservation of our languages: Venkaiah Naidu

Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu addressed the 6th Anniversary of Rashtrethara Telugu Samakhya and said that people's movement is needed for the preservation of our languages

CoWIN website to be available in Hindi and other regional languages soon

This follows criticism of the government that CoWIN was a barrier in vaccinating people in rural India

IBM engaged in research to arm computers with Indian languages

IBM is engaged in research on Indian languages in a bid to develop new artificial intelligence applications in key industries

First JEE exam under NEP kicks off in thirteen Indian languages

The JEE mains examination commenced on Tuesday

Google Maps improves discoverability in several Indian languages

Google Maps said it has incorporated an ensemble of learning models that automatically transliterate the names of points of interest (POIs) to 10 prominent local languages

President Kovind gives assent to Jammu and Kashmir Official Languages Bill

The Jammu and Kashmir Official Languages Bill, 2020, was passed by Parliament in the recently concluded Monsoon Session

Parliament passes Jammu and Kashmir Official Languages Bill, 2020

The minister pointed out that around 74 per cent people in the Union Territory spoke Kashmiri and Dogri languages

'Centre should include Kannada, other regional languages in administration'

Former Chief Minister of Karnataka HD Kumaraswamy urged the Centre to include Kannada and other regional languages in the administration

Hindi Diwas 2020: Here are 10 interesting facts about the Hindi language

Hindi Diwas 2020: Hindi is the fifth most spoken language in the world, with 366 million people communicating in the language

Reverie: Startup that helps firms connect with users in Indian languages

Reverie is a full-stack Indian-language product and technology company with several tools to create content, conversion of speech to text and text to speech

This techie helps businesses speak to Indians in their own languages

Arvind Pani's firm is the first in the world to launch an Indian language support on Android platform in 2011 in partnership with Qualcomm

Microsoft adds two Indian languages to its neural text-to-speech service

Neural TTS significantly reduces listening fatigue when users interact with AI systems with a natural-sounding speech that matches the stress patterns and intonation of human voices

NEP's thrust on mother tongue, the fate of English, and a migrant question

It may never be the language spoken in most homes and remain much smaller than mother tongues, but English will continue to have its place as one of two official languages in India, writes T N Ninan

We should not ignore Sanskrit's troubled history

Divest your resources so that these Universities can be run independently and professionally

Punjabi to Bangla: TV channels bet on regional languages for success

Bhojpuri, Punjabi, Gujarati, Odia are among the new languages driving growth and action in the television market

Fighting for Urdu

Among languages spoken by 10 million or more people, Urdu was the only one that registered a decline - falling below 4.2 per cent of the population.

Not planning 'one nation, one language', all equally important: Govt

Union Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy was replying to a written question in Rajya Sabha whether there is a proposal to have a single language for the country