Union Home Minister Amit Shah's call to culturally unify India with Hindi as it's national language on Saturday triggered a row with several opposition leaders training their guns at him asking him to reconsider his appeal as it "poses a danger to national unity".

Amit Shah's call for Hindi as national language triggers political row

In a bid to promote Hindi in Iceland, India supported Hindi Chair will be established in the University of Iceland. The move was announced during the visit of President Ram Nath Kovind who was in the country as part of his three-nation Europe tour of Iceland, Switzerland and Slovenia.

President Kovind announces Hindi Chair in Iceland University to promote the language

The Indian community in Iceland are forging deep people-to-people relations with the Nordic country, President Ram Nath Kovind said on Monday. Terming the Indian diaspora as 'cultural ambassadors', the President applauded them for contributing to the local society through their advanced skills and knowledge.

Indian community forging deep people-to-people ties with Iceland: President Ram Nath Kovind

In the midst of a controversy over Hindi being part of a three-language formula, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami on Wednesday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to include Tamil as an optional language in curriculum across India.

Palaniswami requests PM to make Tamil an optional language in states across India

Joining ranks with the recent protests over the pan-India three language formula proposed in the draft National Education Policy 2019, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena on Sunday spoke against enforcement of Hindi asserting that it is not their mother tongue.

Hindi not our mother tongue, don't enforce it on us: Raj Thackeray's MNS party on centre's draft education plan

BJP president Amit Shah on Tuesday heaped praises on Prime Minister Narendra Modi while referring to surgical strikes and his address in Hindi at the UN General Assembly.

Shah heaps praises on PM Modi, says he makes India proud by speaking in Hindi at UN

In a move that is likely to give a boost to Hindi language's prospects of becoming an official UN language, the United Nations launched its first news service website in Hindi last week.

In first, United Nations launches Hindi website 

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The Indian Sign Language dictionary, which has been developed by the Indian Sign Language Research and Training Centre, comprises 3,000 Hindi and English words and their corresponding graphic representation of the signs which are used in daily life

India's first sign language dictionary released

With the pervasion of Hindi and English words, Urdu seems to have lost its originality, purity and thus the importance.

Opinion: Is Urdu language dying because of Hindi infiltration?

In an interview with an Indian magazine, Zayn revealed his 'love for Bollywood'

British star Zayn Malik records his first Hindi song for a Bollywood movie

English is not a native language of India and, hence, teaching and learning English is not and will not ever be easy for a huge majority of the population

Opinion: Do you really love your mother tongue?

Class 10th student Dhananjay Kumar declared failed by Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) with 2 marks in Hindi; on the contrary, RTI revealed he scored 79

Bihar student scored 2 marks as per results; RTI reveals he got 79

The dictionary defines 'jugaad' as 'A flexible approach to problem-solving that uses limited resources in an innovative way'

Latest word in Oxford dictionary? 'Jugaad'

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