The Indian government is funding an initiative to distribute free CDs containing open-source software. Around 3.5 million CDs of Tamil-language versions of open-source applications and 3.5 million ...

People who speak English in India will "soon feel ashamed," according to a senior government minister from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. But the party's efforts to promote Hindi are facing ...

India’s language policy debate — reignited by the National Education Policy’s implementation — reveals deeper tensions between the country’s state and central governments, with southern states ...

Editor’s Note: This article is the second in a two-part series. Read part one here. While Hindi is doing well in India, the other official languages of India are also still going strong. In particular ...

India's largest private bank has rolled out a multi-language mobile banking app for rural customers. The app, Mera iMobile (my iMobile), supports 11 Indian languages (Hindi, Punjabi, Gujarati, Marathi ...

Alexa now speaks India’s most popular language, as Amazon seeks new ways to reach more than half a billion potential users in the country. The company’s popular voice assistant can now speak and ...

An Indian startup thinks it has figured out the key to make it easier for more people to have email accounts, but it may have solved only part of the big puzzle. SEE ALSO: India wants regional ...

India’s government recently released the linguistic data from the latest 2011 census. The results confirm previous data, as well as anecdotal trends: the continuing explosion of Hindi, the growth of ...