The Union Cabinet on Thursday expanded the list of India's 'Classical Languages' to 11 by including Marathi, Pali, Prakrit, Assamese and Bengali in it. Tamil, Sanskrit, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and ...

The story so far: The Union Cabinet approved classical status for five more languages earlier this month — Marathi, Bengali, Assamese, Pali, and Prakrit — by tweaking the criteria for the declaration.

Sri Lanka, July 29 -- At the launch of the 'Damsak Daruwo' educational programme recently, key organisers expressed deep gratitude to the Indian Government for its landmark decision to grant Classical ...

During my first few days at Harvard, I attended the Advising Fair and wandered into the language section. Thinking I might be interested in Sanskrit, I approached the Classical Languages booth for ...

The central government spent ₹2532.59 crore on the promotion of Sanskrit between 2014-15 and 2024-25, 17 times the combined spending of ₹147.56 crore on the other five classical Indian languages –– ...

Where on earth does a government recognise languages as classical? It happens only in India! But why? The plain answer is appeasing the linguistic and cultural sub-nationalities―an instance of ...

In her recent op-ed, Mayukha Karnam makes an excellent and important point that Greek and Latin are by no means the world’s only classical languages, and the “Languages at Harvard” booklet she cites ...

Mumbai: The Centre has issued an official notification conferring the status of classical language on Marathi. State Minister of Marathi Language Uday Samant and Union Minister of Culture Gajendra ...

The Maharashtra government has announced that October 3 will be celebrated as 'Classical Marathi Language Day' following the Centre's decision last year to confer the status of classical language on ...

The decision by the union government in 2004 to create a new category called the “classical language” tends to privilege a handful of Indian languages over numerous others. Constituting some languages ...

The 34th Manipuri Language Day Celebration in commemoration of the inclusion of the Manipuri language in the 8th Schedule of the Constitution was held on Wednesday. Addressing the event, former Lok ...

While five languages were accorded the classical status earlier this month, Maithili, a language for which demands have been raised time and again missed out as the Bihar government had not forwarded ...