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Shashi Tharoor (File photo) NEW DELHI: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday weighed into the debate over the recitation of Vande Mataram, questioning whether the national song needs to be sung in full at every public event. Calling such a requirement “unnecessary and burdensome” for audiences, Tharoor said respect for Vande Mataram should not be…
NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK president M K Stalin on Saturday criticised the Center over CBSE’s new curriculum framework, calling it a calculated attempt at linguistic imposition that favoured Hindi over regional languages.In a post on X, Stalin wrote, “The recently unveiled curriculum framework is not an innocent academic reform; it is…
Image shared by TMC handle (Image/X) NEW DELHI: West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Thursday accused the BJP-led Centre and Prime Minister Narendra Modi of policing people’s plates after the newly launched Vande Bharat sleeper train between Kolkata and Kamakhya offered only vegetarian food.The party alleged that the absence of non-vegetarian options on a…
MNS chief Raj Thackeray (ANI photo) NEW DELHI: Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray, who recently forged an alliance with his estranged cousin Uddhav Thackeray ahead of the BMC polls, warned Uttar Pradesh and Bihar migrants against the Hindi imposition. Thackeray said he would “kick” people from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh out of Maharashtra…
NEW DELHI: Actor Vijay‘s Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) slammed Union home minister Amit Shah‘s remarks on Hindi and said that this is yet another attempt to impose the Hindi language. In a statement, the TVK asked to stop imposing Hindi on others and said that prioritising one language in government administration is arbitrary.In a post…
