It was a clumsy question designed to provoke, or perhaps to trap. An audience member asked Javed Akhtar, the poet and Bollywood lyricist, which language was older: Urdu or Sanskrit. The writer — who ...

Patna: Nalanda University on Saturday concluded its two-day national conference on “Promotion of Hindi and global dialogue”, positioning itself as a key academic platform for structured debate on the ...

Jabalpur (Madhya Pradesh): Scholars from across the country and abroad got together to discuss the increasing use of Hindi on a global stage and how technologies like artificial intelligence are being ...

World Hindi Day is celebrated on January 10th to promote the language and spread awareness about its importance. The first celebration of World Hindi Day took place in 1975, when the then Prime ...

Hindi is widely spoken in India and across several neighbouring countries. It is also the third most spoken language in the world. To celebrate its significance and promote its global presence, World ...

World Hindi Day is observed each year to recognise Hindi as a language that has travelled well beyond India. It is a moment to pause and notice how the language continues to find space in different ...

Kerala government's move to make Malayalam the compulsory first language in schools located in border areas with Karnataka - coming amid the backlash against what has been called the imposition of ...

World Hindi Day: World Hindi Day 2026, also known as Vishwa Hindi Diwas is observed globally on 10 January because it commemorates the first World Hindi Conference held in Nagpur, India in 1975. It ...

“Dhurandhar,” starring Ranveer Singh, has overtaken the Hindi dubbed version of “Pushpa 2: The Rule” to become the highest-grossing Hindi-language film in India. Aditya Dhar directed the film, with ...

There were some notable debuts and chart movements in the latest Canada Podcast Ranker data for November. The ranking provides a snapshot of the most downloaded and listened-to podcasts and the top ...

In a first, UN chief has issued his New Year's message for the year 2026 in Hindi, among other languages, calling on world leaders today to invest in development, not destruction. Antonio Guterres' ...