India loves the idea of the classroom as a leveller. Yet equality frays at the chalkboard, often at the language of instruction. Overcrowded rooms, rigid syllabi and English-first materials have long ...

CBSE will enforce a three-language structure from 2026-27, making two Indian languages compulsory in Class 6 across all schools. States retain flexibility, but debates over Hindi, Tamil Nadu’s ...

Bhashini — an acronym for BHASha INterface for India — operates under the National Language Translation Mission (NLTM), spearheaded by the ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) ...

There are more than 7,000 languages spoken around the world, each with its own character. Tamil is the oldest living language ...

India’s language policy debate — reignited by the National Education Policy’s implementation — reveals deeper tensions between the country’s state and central governments, with southern states ...

India is home to great writing systems such as the Brāhmī and the Kharosthī that date back centuries. It’s also a land where languages such as Sanskrit, Tamil and Kannada have etched an oral history ...

Google has released its dedicated AI mobile app Gemini in India — over four months after its debut in the U.S. — with support for nine Indian languages alongside English. The Gemini mobile app in ...

Last week, Diggi, who now runs a small IT services startup called Ipil Innovation, launched a new version with more than ...

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