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Today is Hindi Day. On this day in the year 1949, the Constituent Assembly accepted Hindi as the official language of India. Many times people consider the official language and national language to be the same, but there is no mention of the national language in the Constitution of India. Article 343 of the Constitution states that the official language of the country shall be Hindi and the script Devanagari.

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European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker, who hails from Luxembourg, speaks several European languages fluently.

All dignitaries, including the President and ministers, may soon start giving speeches in Hindi if a parliamentary panel's recommendations accepted by President Pranab Mukherjee are implemented.

In a bid to promote languages other than English, Australia on Monday announced the national rollout of an online programme for pre-schoolers to learn foreign languages, including Hindi, from next year onwards.

Asked if she spoke to Rajinikanth in Marathi as she did not know Tamil, Radhika said she introduced herself to the superstar in Marathi, but conversed in English during the shooting of the blockbuster.

Congress politician Shashi Tharoor says the only two benefits of the British Empire for India were cricket and the English language.

A new US federal jury will continue its deliberations on Tuesday in the case against an Alabama police officer charged with slamming an Indian grandfather to the ground while taking a walk last February.

A former American police officer used an "extremely violent technique" against an Indian grandfather that left him partially paralysed early this year, a key police training official has told a US federal jury.

An Indian grandfather slammed to the ground by an Alabama police officer last February told him "no English" five times and said "India" three times, according to US prosecutors.

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif faces a contempt case for failing to deliver his speech in Urdu at the UN General Assembly in violation of a verdict by the country's Supreme Court.