While the Centre asserts that the policy promotes multi-lingualism, TN argues that it pressures non-Hindi-speaking states. National Education Policy (NEP2020) and its three-language formula have reignited a longstanding debate, particularly between the Centre and Tamil Nadu, which has its roots in the language controversy that dates back to the 1960s when the state opposed “imposition…
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu CM M K Stalin announced Saturday he would take a pledge on his birthday to resist the “imposition of a dominant language” – indirectly referring to Hindi. He launched a sharp attack on the Centre over its three-language policy under NEP, alleging it was a ploy to impose Hindi in non-Hindi-speaking states…
BELAGAVI/KOLHAPUR: A girl who had filed a sexual harassment case against a bus conductor under the Pocso Act in the Belagavi ticket row over language last week, sought on Tuesday to withdraw the complaint. Her parents insisted they “too are fans of Kannada” in a bid to ease the flare-up across the border.The bus conductor,…
Annamalai said Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin was instilling imaginery fears among people. NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu BJP chief K Annamalai fired back at chief minister MK Stalin after the chief minister announced that the state was ready for “another language war”. Stalin called an all-party meeting on March 5 to discuss the Lok…
MK Stalin on NEP: तमिलनाडु के मुख्यमंत्री एम. के. स्टालिन ने शनिवार (22 फरवरी, 2025) को कुड्डालोर में राष्ट्रीय शिक्षा नीति (NEP) को लेकर केंद्र सरकार पर निशाना साधा. स्टालिन ने कहा, ‘अगर केंद्र उनके राज्य को 10,000 करोड़ रुपये देने की पेशकश करे तो भी वो इसे लागू करने के लिए सहमत नहीं होंगे.’…
NEW DELHI: Actor and politician Kamal Haasan on Friday emphasised the linguistic pride among Tamilians and warned those who might take language issues lightly.Amid the ongoing row between state government and Centre National Education Policy (NEP), Hassan referred to the state’s historic struggle against the imposition of Hindi and said that people of Tamil Nadu…
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, or NASEM, is an independent, 162-year-old nongovernmental agency tasked with investigating and reporting on a wide range of subjects. In recent years, diversity, equity and inclusion — collectively known as D.E.I. — have been central to its agenda. But the Academies’ priorities changed abruptly on Jan. 31….
In 1786, a British judge named William Jones noticed striking similarities between certain words in languages, such as Sanskrit and Latin, whose speakers were separated by thousands of miles. The languages must have “sprung from some common source,” he wrote. Later generations of linguists determined that Sanskrit and Latin belong to a huge family of…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on Rahul Gandhi accusing the Congress leader of speaking the language of urban Naxals. The Prime Minister also took pot shots at Rahul over his allegations of “EAM lobbying for Trump inauguration invite” and his “boring” remark for President Droupadi Murmu’s Budget speech.‘Some…
NEW DELHI: Former cricketer Ravichandran Ashwin made a strong statement as the chief guest at a college event in Tamil Nadu, saying, Hindi is not the national language of India but merely an official language.He made these comments on Thursday while attending the convocation ceremony of a private college. During the event, Ashwin asked the…