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Papua New Guinea highest number of ‘living’ indigenous languages in world

Ethnologue (a directory of languages) lists 7,111 living languages worldwide (languages that are still being used and spoken...

📅 August 8, 2019

Bal Sahitya Puraskar and Yuva Puraskar

The Sahitya Akademi has announced the Bal Sahitya Puraskar and Yuva Puraskar for the year 2019. Bal Sahitya...

📅 June 15, 2019

UN English Language Day

The UN English Language Day is observed every year on 23rd of April to celebrate multilingualism and cultural...

📅 April 24, 2019

Book On Jallianwala Bagh Poem ‘Khooni Vaisakhi’ Released In UAE

A book containing English translation of the 100-year-old classic Punjabi poem about Jallianwala Bagh massacre, ‘Khooni Vaisakhi’ has...

📅 April 21, 2019

K Siva Reddy selected for 2018 Saraswati Samman

Telugu poet K Siva Reddy has been selected for the prestigious Saraswati Samman, 2018 for his collection of...

📅 April 11, 2019

Reviving the lost languages

Professor Zuckermann of Australia is preserving the linguistic diversity of Australia. Australia is said to have had 250...

📅 March 23, 2019

Himachal Pradesh assembly passes a Bill to make Sanskrit 2nd official language of state

On February 16, the Himachal Pradesh Assembly passed a Bill to make Sanskrit as the second official language...

📅 February 18, 2019

The Central Government gives nod for Centre for Classical Language in Tirur

The Union Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) has recently approved the establishment of a Centre for Classical...

📅 January 5, 2019

Canada hosts 17th World Sanskrit Conference (WSC-2018)

The Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister, Prakash Javadekar inaugurated the 17th World Sanskrit Conference (WSC) in Vancouver,...

📅 July 9, 2018

Kottayam Pushpanath, renowned detective novelist passes away

Kottayam Pushpanath (80), the renowned Malayalam detective novelist, has passed away in Kottayam, Kerala on May 2, 2018....

📅 May 2, 2018

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