private law college in the city has protested the way Marathi is being equated with French, a foreign language, for law students at theSM Rajan, a doctorate in law and director of the Central India College of Law (CICL), said, "Marathi is not a foreign language, it is our official language. I can understand that Marathi being offered as an optional language along with Gujarati or any other Indian ...
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a filmmaker whose surname sounds non-Marathi, makes his directorial debut with a Marathi film, he is bound to attract surprised eyeballs. That’s exactly what directorYou are not Marathi. How come you decided to direct a Marathi film for your debut?I am a Marathi. My surname might be non-Marathi but, I speak the language. Besides, there’s no rule that you have to be Marathi to make a Marathi film. I...
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general body meeting after the civic polls on Monday, with 212 corporators in attendance, began with squabbles over Marathi and confusion.leader Dilip Patel. Patel was speaking about the Holi colour poisoning case. After slogans by MNS corporators demanding that Patel speak in Marathi disrupted the proceedings, mayor Sunil Prabhu said, "Corporators are allowed to speak in any language . All the do...
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"We will allow existing Konkani and Marathi medium primary schools to be brought under the model schools and these schools will provide better education in Goan languages," the chief minister...
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The Maharashtra Legislative Assembly today passed a resolution for formation of a joint committee for Marathi Language to monitor use of the language in the state and central offices.Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, tabling a resolution, said ''We have to check use of Marathi language in central and state government offices properly. Therefore, I propose such a joint committee named as''Marathi Language...
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India Chhava Sanghatna on Sunday termed as "hypocrite" the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena president Raj Thackeray over his pro-Marathi stand."Raj Thackray's love for Marathi language is not genuine. His children are learning in English medium schools. Raj is misguiding Maharashtrian people, especially those from the Maratha community, by showing fake love for Marathi language," the founder president of...
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Though Marathi is the official language of Maharashtra, the Nagpur University administration thinks otherwise. NU officials seemed to have no value for the state language which was evident from the way they failed to update the Marathi website for about ten months. Even the English version has not been regularly updated, sources said.A visit to the NU website's Marathi version reveals that none of...
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India Chhava Sanghatna today termed as “hypocrite” the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena president Raj Thackeray over his pro-Marathi stand.“Raj Thackray’s love for Marathi language is not genuine. His children are learning in English medium schools. Raj is misguiding Maharashtrian people, especially those from the Maratha community, by showing fake love for Marathi language,” the founder president of the...
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controversial official language issue has once again raised its ugly head in Goa with the Marathi lovers demanding official language status to Marathi.The protagonists want State government to make the announcement in the forthcoming legislative assembly session, beginning from January 28. The newly formed outfit, Marathi Rajbhasha Andolan’ (MRA) said it would launch a state-wide agitation, beginning...
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Yahoo! India, a digital media firm, today announced that it has inked a partnership with Lokmat, a Marathi daily, to deliver digital content in Marathi language, the fourth largest spoken language in India, to the internet users.The property-- http://lokmat.yahoo.com/-- will offer Lokmat's original content combined with Yahoo!'s premium content experience to online Marathi users.Commenting on the surging...
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