Aranyam Perfumes founder Lalita Jadhav receives Maharastra Ratna Puraskar 2024Aranyam Perfumes founder Lalita Jadhav has received the Maharashtra Ratna 2024 Puraskar for 'Best Natural Fragrance Brand'. The brand excel...
01 Oct, 2024, 11.13 AM IST
Revival of age-old 'Tribeni Kumbho Mohotshav' in Bengal finds mention in PM Modi's Mann Ki Baat addressThe age-old festival, celebrated on the banks of Ganga, dates back thousands of years but was stopped 700 years ago to be revived just two ...
26 Feb, 2023, 01.32 PM IST
Recasting the many legacies of the AmritsWith Mughalsarai Junction in UP already renamed Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Junction in 2018, re-renaming it Amritsarai Junction could be c...
29 Jan, 2023, 11.33 PM IST
J-K trying to promote Sanskrit as per New Education Policy recommendations, says LG Manoj SinhaAddressing after laying the foundation stone for the new building of ChudamSanskrit Sansthan, at Basohli of Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua dist...
20 Aug, 2021, 09.11 AM IST
DU admissions expose sorry state of ancient Indian languagesAccording to Pankaj Mishra, an associate professor of Sanskrit at St Stephen's College, the diminishing interest in the language is due to ...
10 Jul, 2018, 04.59 PM IST
Assam finance minister Himanta Biswa Sarma presents Rs 2,350 crore deficit budgetAssam wants legislation to ensure that students of the State must be taught one local language as reflected in the 8th Schedule of the Cons...
07 Feb, 2017, 06.14 PM IST
Sanskrit newspapers dying due to lack of advertisers and patronageThe story is similar for over a dozen Sanskrit newspapers — often run by family members of the founder with limited staff and money.
30 Jul, 2016, 03.05 AM IST
Don’t favour making any language compulsory in school, says panel for Sanskrit promotionThe committee, set up by the HRD ministry, said that all Sanskrit Pathsalas and Vedic Schools should be affiliated to some board.
05 Feb, 2016, 12.55 PM IST
For Sanjiv Saraf, rescuing Urdu from neglect and popularising it is his life's mission"Urdu was born here in India. It developed here. In no other country in the world do you have Urdu. There is so much of Hindi in Urdu," Sar...
27 Dec, 2015, 05.02 AM IST
Researchers in ancient poetry to get incentives: Harish RawatHe also asked people to revive their interest in agriculture as a measure to put brakes on migration from the hills in search of livelihood.
23 Nov, 2015, 03.00 PM IST
IFFI picks film 'Priyamanasam' rejected by KeralaPriyamanasam, a Sanskrit movie recently rejected for allegedly promoting Hindutva, will be exhibited as the inaugural film in the Indian pa...
04 Nov, 2015, 04.21 AM IST
IFFI selects Sanskrit film rejected by Kerala as openerPriyamanasam, a Sanskrit movie recently rejected for the International Film Festival of Kerala for allegedly promoting Hindutva, will be ex...
03 Nov, 2015, 08.42 PM IST
University of Kashmir’s Sanskrit department struggles to find students; remains defunct since 1990This has been the story of department ever since militancy erupted in the Valley in 1990, changing the social situation in the state overni...
24 Jun, 2015, 03.45 AM IST
Sanskrit teachers hoping for 'acche din' under Modi governmentExperts, however, are skeptical of government-driven revivalist efforts, noting that Sanskrit, even at its peak, was never a mass language.
31 Dec, 2014, 11.45 AM IST
Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan to teach Sanskrit in Classes XI, XIIIn a communication sent to all Kendriya Vidyalayas, the KVS asked them to hire teachers on contract basis for teaching Sanskrit.
09 Dec, 2014, 11.24 AM IST
Tradition of Nalanda is firmly against divisiveness: Amartya SenAmartya Sen said that the revived university in Bihar will be unique and depend upon its "old glory" while it embarks upon its new journey.
16 Oct, 2014, 10.43 PM IST
BJP chief claims English bad for India, triggers outrageBJP chief Rajnath Singh has stirred up a huge controversy with his comment that English has caused a great loss to India by eroding its cul...
20 Jul, 2013, 06.37 AM IST