Sports ministry confirms Satwik, Chirag for Khel Ratna, Shami and 25 others for Arjuna awardThe Dyan Chand award in the life-time category will be conferred to three persons. Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar is the recipient of ...
Shami nominated for Arjuna Award, Satwik-Chirag for Khel RatnaIndia's cricketer Mohammed Shami has been nominated for the Arjuna Award. Shami, who led India to a successful World Cup campaign, was the ...
Amit Shah offers prayers to Lord Ganesh in MumbaiA visit to the residence of ally Shiv Sena's chief Uddhav Thackeray, who also resides in Bandra, was not part of the BJP president's schedu...
How digital typography is reinventing regional languagesIndia’s growing typographic community not only caters to global majors trying to make a mark in the vernacular market but also digitises en...
Professors from Japan, USA to be honoured for promoting HindiCentral Hindi Institute, an educational arm of the Union Human Resource Development Ministry, today announced the list of winners in differ...
Trailing Rajasthan! Do not miss out on the Pushkar fair and the Amber FortThe fair starts from November 8 to 14, 2016 & is one of the worlds largest camel fairs. Make sure you have all your reservations in place.
Meet Ganesh Devy, the man who is out to map the world's linguistic diversityThree years ago Ganesh N Devy told us how many languages India has. Now he wants to map the world’s linguistic diversity.
Devotees may soon be able to donate shares in MP templesRajendra Singh said the department has written a letter to the concerned district collectors where these temples are situated to examine th...
Authors urge Sahitya Akademi to reinvent itselfWriters wrote to the National Academy of Letters urging it to build on the resolution passed and respond in a 'strong, humane and robust' m...
Will wait for Akademi decision to return Sahitya award: Vikram SethThe 63-year-old writer who had received an Akademi award in 1988 for his novel 'The Golden Gate' said this on the sidelines of the launch o...
- Another Gujarat-based writer Anil Joshi to return Sahitya Akademi award
The decision by Joshi comes a day after another writer here, Ganesh Devy, returned his Sahitya Akademi Award citing a similar reason.
Rushdie backs authors, 7 more return Sahitya Akademi awards"The Sahitya Akademi remains silent about the Kalburgi murder so many dangers our democracy is facing, the very fabric of democracy is unde...
Writers step up protest, 5 more return Akademi awardDelhi-based Aman Sethi said he too was returning the Sahitya Award he got in 1993, as the "spirit of inquiry is clearly under threat".
Linguistic Survey to be published in 33 volumes in HindiBPRC, which had conducted a linguistic survey identifying 860 Indian languages, has decided to get its findings published in 33 volumes in ...
Monika Devi named among core probables for CWG, AsiadMonika Devi has been included among 26 core probables for the upcoming Commonwealth and Asian Games after she won the gold in Nationals.
India lost 220 languages in last 50 years, survey findsIndia has lost around 20% of its languages in the past five decades, a survey by the Vadodara-based Bhasha Research and Publication Centre ...
- BSP disrupts UP Legislative Council over Etawah incident
The BSP members stormed into the Well of the House raising anti-government slogans which led to multiple adjournments.