Google is bringing its AI-powered conversational search feature, Search Live, to India — launching in English and Hindi — and expanding AI Mode to seven new Indian languages, as the company ...

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The controversy in Maharashtra over the imposition of Hindi has once again brought the language to the centre of a national debate. In April, the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Maharashtra government ...

States worry that the imposition of Hindi, the main language of northern India, would wipe out their cultural heritage. By Anupreeta Das Reporting from New Delhi In India, the land of more than a ...

Sanjay Raut clarifies Shiv Sena (UBT)'s stance on Hindi, distinguishing it from Tamil Nadu's outright rejection. Maharashtra opposes mandatory Hindi in primary schools, not the language itself, unlike ...

Mumbai: Hindi will not be a compulsory third language in Maharashtra state board schools, but it will be the default choice unless at least 20 students in a class opt for an alternative language, ...

A fresh stir erupted on Wednesday (June 18, 2025), as the Maharashtra government issued a new order stating that Hindi will “generally” be the third language in Marathi and English medium schools from ...

Fresh political backlash has erupted over the Maharashtra government’s order on Tuesday. The order stipulated Hindi to be taught as the ‘general’ third language to students in Marathi and English ...

MUMBAI: The Maharashtra government on Tuesday took a sharp U-turn over making Hindi the third language in primary schools. Maharashtra Education Minister and Shiv Sena MLA Dada Bhuse said that earlier ...

The Maharashtra government-appointed Language Consultation Committee chairperson Laxmikant Deshmukh has opposed the State government’s decision to make Hindi compulsory. In a letter to Chief Minister ...