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LANGUAGES IN INDIA ARE MEANT TO UNITE, NOT DIVIDE   Recently, on social media, I heard an SBI bank manager in Chandapura, Bangalore, telling a customer, 'I will not speak Kannada; I will speak Hindi.' Hindi is our national language. At the same time, the bank customers were pressuring the bank manager to speak Kannada.    The customer was adamant that the bank manager should talk to her in Kannada. However, the manager clearly said that she would not do so. A video was also made by the woman during the argument, which is currently going viral on social media.     The argument between the bank manager and the customer has sparked controversy although the battle between Kannada and Hindi is an age-old one in Karnataka. Such controversies have been increasing rapidly since Bangalore has emerged as an IT hub where the number of Hindi-speaking people has also increased rapidly. ANGER OF KANNADA ORGANIZATIONS This incident has not only heated up the con...

INCREASING EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN THE FIELD OF THE HINDI LANGUAGE   Hindi is the third most spoken and understood language in the world. There are approximately 70 crore Hindi speakers worldwide. Apart from India, Hindi is also spoken in countries such as Mauritius, Fiji, Suriname, Guyana, Uganda, Trinidad and Tobago, Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan, Indonesia, Pakistan, the Maldives, Thailand, Bangladesh, Singapore, the Caribbean countries, and South Africa. Besides, there are a good number of people who speak and understand Hindi in Canada, England, America, and Central Asia. About 6,50,000 people speak Hindi in the United States alone.     People are learning Hindi in many places in Germany. For several decades, Hindi and Sanskrit have been taught in universities and cities including Heidelberg, Leipzig, and Bonn. Some schools in the US have decided to offer Hindi as a foreign language along with French, Spanish, and German. There are a large number of people using Hin...

  ARE YOU TIRED OF UNWANTED CALLS ON YOUR MOBILE PHONE? Unwanted calls on mobile phones are a common source of annoyance and irritation. This happens to everyone every day. Sometimes offers are made to get credit cards through these calls and sometimes information is given about property offers. Many types of scams are carried out through these calls and the person who gets trapped gets money withdrawn from his bank account. Many have become victims at one time or the other.   I am a witness to this myself. I get about 8 or 10 spam calls a day. I have nothing to do with these phone calls. Even if I ever pick up the call, the caller will ask me about the sale and purchase of my house. Another will talk about insurance. A third person will talk about an apartment promotion and try to convince me to buy it. The result is that even though the fourth person is calling genuinely, I am forced to ignore it, thinking it is a spam call.   On checking the phone calls it was ...

SUPREME COURT: CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS OF PAVEMENT WALKERS No matter how expensive a car someone drives, they still have to walk on the footpath at some point or the other. Government statistics show that about 50 percent of the city's population depends on walking. Therefore, it is very important to have good footpaths for people to walk in the big cities of the country While the irony is that in most of the cities of India, the public has to face a lot of trouble due to the poor condition or lack of footpaths. Not only this, but in the absence of good footpaths, people have to walk on the roads amidst the traffic. As a result, people become victims of accidents, and many even die. In the year 2022, 32825 pedestrians were killed across the country. In the year 2021, 17113 pedestrians became victims of road accidents, out of which 9462 died. Every fifth person killed in a road accident in 2023 was a pedestrian. According to the data of the Delhi Traffic Police, in just four months ...