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"Hindi should not be made compulsory in primary education": Sharad Pawar c
Updated : 11 months ago IST
"My view is that Hindi should not be made compulsory in primary education. There is no issue in children learning Hindi after Class 5. But we must analyze how many languages a child of a certain age can realistically learn and what linguistic burden that places on them," Pawar said.
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DU calls 'Muslim' as language a clerical error after outrage over Urdu omi
Updated : 11 months, 1 week ago IST
Delhi University on Saturday clarified that the listing of "Muslim" as a 'mother tongue' and the omission of Urdu from its undergraduate admission form was a "clerical error", after the move triggered widespread criticism from academics and civil society.
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"I can give my life for Kannada...": Shiva Rajkumar joins outcry over Kama
Updated : 11 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Amid the growing controversy surrounding actor Kamal Haasan's remarks about the Kannada language, actor Shiva Rajkumar has reaffirmed his unwavering commitment to his mother tongue.
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"I bring my turban, my culture and my mother tongue," Diljit Dosanjh on Me
Updated : 1 year ago IST
Punjabi actor-singer Diljit Dosanjh won hearts by honouring his Sikh roots at his Met Gala debut.
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Keep it optional, don't impose it: Congress's Wadettiwar on Hindi as compu
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
Speaking to ANI, Wadettiwar, emphasising Marathi as the mother tongue, warned against any coercion that undermines the rights of Marathi-speaking people.
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"Goal is to serve people by ensuring availability of qualified doctors": P
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
Addressing a public rally in Nagpur, Prime Minister Modi said, "We made a bold decision to provide medical education in the students' mother tongue, which ensures that even children from underprivileged backgrounds can pursue a career in medicine. It has happened for the first time after
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Our duty is to protect our mother tongue: DMK MP T Siva amid three-languag
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
" Two things, first is delimitation, when we are concerned that, on the basis of population, the delimitation is done, the states which concentrated on family planning and controlled the birth...we have healthily contributed to the country. We will be losing our representation in the Parl
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"BJP provoking us: DMK MLA Ezhilan Naganathan on criticism for use of Tami
Updated : 1 year, 2 months ago IST
The MLA stated that BJP was trying to find all types of issues to provoke people against DMK, further stating that using the mother tongue for all purposes was the theme of any principle of the Union government.
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Lok Sabha: Sitharaman accuses DMK of creating "political mess" in Tamil Na
Updated : 1 year, 2 months ago IST
Speaking in Lok Sabha, Sitharaman said, "New Education Policy actually says learn in your mother tongue till class 5th, if possible till 8th even better till intermediate that's what NEP says but they (DMK) want to imagine it is imposing Hindi. Wrongly they have created political mess in Tam
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DMK, INDIA bloc leaders making mileading statements on NEP: BJP's Tarun Ch
Updated : 1 year, 2 months ago IST
BJP National General Secretary Tarun Chugh on Tuesday slammed the DMK and other parties in the INDIA bloc, accusing them of making misleading statements on the National Education Policy (NEP, 2020). Chugh said that NEP 2020 is the first education policy under which education should be impart
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"Nothing but political war": Union Minister Sukanta Majumdar on row over t
Updated : 1 year, 2 months ago IST
Following the row over allegations of trying to impose the Hindi language in Tamil Nadu, Union Minister Sukanta Majumdar clarified that in the three-language formula, the emphasis was on the mother tongue, and this was a political war.
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Push for monolithic Hindi identity kills ancient mother tongues: Tamil Nad
Updated : 1 year, 2 months ago IST
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Thursday strongly opposed the three-language policy in Tamil Nadu, saying that the push for a "monolithic Hindi identity" is what 'killed' the "ancient mother tongues".
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