Ravindra Jadeja addressing the media in Melbourne (Photo: BCCI video grab) After the row around India all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja answering questions in Hindi during a media interaction in Melbourne on Saturday, former India pacer Irfan Pathan has voiced his opinion, saying that it’s the player’s choice to answer questions in a language he wants to.The…
The Australian media is celebrating one of the biggest face-offs in Test cricket, India vs Australia, in style as News Corp Australia has announced an eight-page wrap in English, Hindi and Punjabi in their print and digital editions to cover the five Tests of the coming Border Gavaskar Trophy (BGT).The Indian team is already in…
NEW DELHI: In a language war of sorts, CPM deputy leader in Rajya Sabha John Brittas on Sunday raised objections to junior rail and food processing minister Ravneet Singh writing official responses to him in Hindi. “In a compelling gesture of protest”, Brittas has written to the minister in Malayalam.The minister in his written replies…
Ahmedabad:Gujarati is the third most-spoken language among Indian immigrants in Canada, following Punjabi and Hindi. According to data from Statistics Canada, around 87,900 Gujarati-speaking immigrants have settled in Canada since 1980, with a notable 26% of them arriving in the country between 2016 and 2021.During this latter period, Punjabi speakers constituted the largest linguistic group…
NEW DELHI: DMK leader and Rajya Sabha MP MM Abdulla responded to Union minister Ravneet Singh Bittu’s Hindi letter, saying that he did not understand Hindi and requested that official communications be sent in English instead. The response by the DMK MP follows a letter from the Union minister of state for railways, dated October…
NEW DELHI: Home minister Amit Shah on Saturday said Hindi must be made acceptable, flexible and conversational, and stressed the need to promote it by strengthening all Indian regional languages and establishing their mutual congruence.Shah, while addressing the official language‘s diamond jubilee celebrations and the 4th Akhil Bharatiya Rajbhasha Sammelan here coinciding with Hindi Diwas,…
NEW DELHI: Home minister Amit Shah on Saturday said Hindi must be made acceptable, flexible and conversational, and stressed the need to promote it by strengthening all Indian regional languages and establishing their mutual congruence.Shah, while addressing the official language‘s diamond jubilee celebrations and the 4th Akhil Bharatiya Rajbhasha Sammelan here coinciding with Hindi Diwas,…
The 33rd Olympic Games commenced on Friday with a captivating opening ceremony in Paris which left the audience in awe. The ‘Parade of Nations‘, which usually features sportspersons walking on along the running track of a stadium, witnessed a break from tradition as athletes from 205 countries and one refugee team navigated the Seine on…
