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Foreign languages not to be part of 3-language formula in schools

Foreign languages such as German and French may not be part of the three-language formula in schools from the next academic session. Photo: Mint New Delhi: Foreign languages such as German and French may not be part of the three-language formula in schools from the next academic session. The HRD ministry is believed to have communicated to the Central Board of Read More


CBSE to make NEET common question paper in all languages: Supreme Court

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has to file an affidavit informing what mechanism they will opt for conducting the exam from next year. After Supreme Court on Tuesday considered the submission of the centre that it was willing to include Urdu as a language in the NEET, the court today said that there should be a common question Read More


Google Translate and Gboard Improve Indian Languages Support, Google Search Will Include Hindi Dictionary Results

Google on Tuesday announced that the company is introducing improved support for Indian languages in its products. After introducing support for machine-learning based translation for Hindi last month, the search giant has now extended its neural machine translation to 9 more Indian languages. The company has also extended its new translation technique’s support to Chrome browser’s built-in auto-translate functionality. Additionally, Read More


Govt mandates support for Indian languages in all mobile phones from July 2017

New Delhi: Government has mandated support for Indian languages in all mobile phonesto be sold in the country from July 1, 2017 onward. “In exercise of the power conferred by clause 10(1) of Bureau of Indian Standard Act… The central government, hereby includes the Indian language support for mobile phone as per IS 16333(Part-3) to the schedule of ‘Electronics and Read More


Regional languages to be mandatory in mobiles

As the government pushes to provide governance through mobile phones, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has mandated smartphone manufacturers to ensure all devices support Hindi and at least one local language. Already, there have been two rounds of discussions on the matter between the ministry and handset makers. One more round of discussion is planned soon as Read More