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Hindi is the lingua franca of northern India (which contains the Hindi Belt), as well as an official language of the Government of India, along with English. [ 70 ] In Northeast India a pidgin known as Haflong Hindi has developed as a lingua franca for the people living in Haflong , Assam who speak other languages natively. [ 91 ]
Hindi Wikipedia is the second most popular Wikipedia in India after the English version. However, more than 85% of Wikipedia pageviews from India are to the English Wikipedia. Between January 2016 and January 2021 the share of Hindi Wikipedia increased from 2% to 8%. [3] On average, the Hindi Wikipedia receives 50 to 70 million monthly ...
President of India: Ram Nath Kovind (till 25 July 2022) Droupadi Murmu (from 25 July 2022) Vice-President of India and Chairman of Rajya Sabha: Venkaiah Naidu (till 11 August 2022) Jagdeep Dhankhar (from 11 August 2022) Prime Minister of India: Narendra Modi: Speaker of the Lok Sabha: Om Birla: Chief Justice of India: N. V. Ramana (till 28 ...
Author Tuhin Sinha sued the WMF regarding the deletion of the English Wikipedia article about him in 2022. He said the suit was "a fight against the Western deep state." [28] In 2022, India's Supreme Court dismissed defamation suits by the Ayurvedic Medicine Manufacturers Organisation of India against Wikipedia. [29]
Plans to make Hindi the sole official language of the Republic were met with resistance in many parts of the country, especially in Tamil Nadu, which had a history of opposing imposition of the Hindi language dating back to 1937, when the Justice Party opposed the then Congress led Madras Government's decision to make Hindi compulsory in ...
India, officially the Republic of India, [j] [20] is a country in South Asia.It is the seventh-largest country in the world by area and the most populous country.Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; [k] China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and ...
The January 2022 issue of New India Samachar, which commemorated India's 75th year of Independence during the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, came under criticism for factual inaccuracies. The magazine featured content suggesting that Swami Vivekananda 's teachings were a precursor to the 1857 revolt , even though Vivekananda was not born during that ...
Being the official script for Hindi, Devanagari is officially used in the Union Government of India as well as several Indian states where Hindi is an official language, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, and the Indian union territories of Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Dadra and Nagar Haveli ...