tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5633110929981244782024-02-19T15:49:46.385+05:30Hindi on the Web | इंटरनेट पर हिन्दीTracking the growing steps of Hindi and other Indian languages on the WWWdebashishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05581506338446555105noreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-563311092998124478.post-51282120716594592832020-06-15T14:02:00.001+05:302020-06-15T14:04:01.519+05:30Top 10 Hindi web series released during lockdown<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
As are stuck at home during the lockdown phase, streaming platforms do their best to entertain the literally captive audience. Here are the top 10 Hindi web series that released during the period.<br />
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<li><a href="https://www.primevideo.com/region/eu/detail/0G9IEOHCN8KMY6COD9ILGH7IY5/ref=atv_hm_hom_c_bV3MWc_hnDIaR_1_1">Pataal Lok</a> [Amazon Prime]</li>
<li><a href="https://www.googleadservices.com/pagead/aclk?sa=L&ai=DChcSEwjym7OctIPqAhWDCIgJHRayBt8YABAAGgJxbg&ohost=www.google.com&cid=CAESQOD2oBGCGkatGdhyAsqBSiATKVpI9T906HIiQdmnk0mZsn8ZiM5Zo1NerKXBxsDscVrtcnjqbagnHQH6S6gxV4Q&sig=AOD64_1q26BUUIrfg-akeEvQE1LS_mFz-A&q=&ved=2ahUKEwjq1qictIPqAhU1ZDUKHbymDfYQ0Qx6BAguEAE&adurl=" target="_blank">Special Ops</a> [Hotstar]</li>
<li><a href="https://www.primevideo.com/detail/Panchayat/0KEP4A6DWRKFYQFTSU5RXHEAN2" target="_blank">Panchayat</a> [Amazon prime]</li>
<li><a href="https://www.voot.com/shows/the-raikar-case/239633" target="_blank">The Raikar Case</a> [Voot]</li>
<li><a href="https://www.zee5.com/zee5originals/details/state-of-siege-2611/0-6-2370" target="_blank">Stage of Siege 26/11</a> [Zee5]</li>
<li><a href="https://www.hotstar.com/in/tv/hundred/s-2606" target="_blank">Hundred</a> [Hotstar]</li>
<li><a href="https://www.googleadservices.com/pagead/aclk?sa=L&ai=DChcSEwjw2bXUs4PqAhUBb4YKHZYtDjQYABAAGgJ2dQ&ohost=www.google.com&cid=CAESQOD2UTsXoKwcDH0xfNZBDW-y2c5zMp9m0NFpWoE2bGBtRSlixOU35orhor0DoqUVKXspfPOipGCD0VykJ81ldKw&sig=AOD64_1RYltgrEt3P08H3Wxa06w3ClHc3A&q=&ved=2ahUKEwjv2K3Us4PqAhWoSjABHfWlBxcQ0Qx6BAgMEAE&adurl=" target="_blank">Illegal</a> [Voot]</li>
<li><a href="https://www.primevideo.com/detail/Four-More-Shots-Please/0HG4U1J3UNT1TY6V7J5LOUYXXV" target="_blank">Four More Shots Please Season 2</a> [Amazon prime]</li>
<li><a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/81061789" target="_blank">Betaal</a> [Netflix]</li>
<li><a href="https://www.netflix.com/in/title/80236782" target="_blank">Hasmukh</a> [Netflix]</li>
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debashishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05581506338446555105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-563311092998124478.post-13684861860353560632020-06-15T13:47:00.001+05:302020-06-15T13:49:16.391+05:30Netflix to partner with Viacom for creating local content?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Netflix is looking forward to expand its offerings in the Indian video content section. It is thus, in talks with partnering with Network18 affiliates that include its joint venture with ViacomCBS, Viacom18. In 2019, its digital unit Tipping Point partnered with Netflix for three Hindi shows, but the present discussions are about a bigger tie-up. This can be understood as a bigger version of the 2019 deal, one of Netflix’s biggest moves to create local content in India.<br />
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debashishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05581506338446555105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-563311092998124478.post-15498416314174578042019-12-06T20:18:00.000+05:302019-12-19T20:18:18.958+05:30PUBG themed Hindi web-series Dosti Ka Naya MaidanTencent Games has announced a first-of-its-kind web series in India, based on its insanely popular action game PUBG.
The five-part series, titled <i>Dosti Ka Naya Maidan</i>, has been developed by the PUBG Mobile India team and will go live on December 25. To tap into PUBG's viral popularity in India, the show has been created in Hindi. It also explores locally-relevant entertainment narratives such as <i>dosti </i>(friendship).<br />
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<br />debashishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05581506338446555105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-563311092998124478.post-17257357383516498312019-12-03T20:24:00.000+05:302019-12-19T20:25:37.960+05:3090% of new users coming online are Indian language users, says Google IndiaHindi web consumption has grown at over 90% compared to English that recorded only at 19% growth, according to Google India. Recognising the growing demand for Indian language content amongst the users, there have been several India-first language products launched in the recent past, and the company has also integrated greater Indian language support across their existing products and services.<br />
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Google launched Voice Search in Hindi in 2014, Hindi tab on the search results page in June 2016 and enabled Hindi users to simply tap it to access search results in their language. Google Assistant was launched in 2017, and it was extended to Hindi in March 2018. "To help Indian language users more effectively benefit from the power of the web, we have launched numerous voice and language experiences across our products including Google Assistant, Maps, Search, Translate, Chrome and Gboard,” said Nidhi Gupta, Senior Product Manager, Google India.<br />
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<li>Monthly active Internet users in India: 460 Million </li>
<li>Total base of Smartphone Users: 380-400 Million </li>
<li>New internet users added per annum between 2015-2018: 40+ Million </li>
<li>9 out of 10 new users coming online are Indian language users </li>
<li>68% users consider Indic content more trustworthy
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debashishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05581506338446555105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-563311092998124478.post-14760429258091300832019-11-11T20:37:00.000+05:302019-12-19T20:38:48.576+05:30Twitter seeks public input in Hindi on fake photos and videosTwitter is seeking public input on a new policy that the social network is developing about photos and videos that have been altered or fabricated.
Hindi is one among the 6 languages the inputs have been sought in as India remains one of the fastest growing markets globally. The other languages are English, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese.<br />
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Twitter said synthetic and manipulated media is any photo, audio, or video that has been significantly altered or fabricated in a way that intends to mislead people or changes its original meaning. These are sometimes referred to as deep fakes or shallow fakes.
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debashishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05581506338446555105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-563311092998124478.post-57677139532176999022019-11-09T20:41:00.000+05:302019-12-19T20:42:39.869+05:30HDFC website in Hindi and 5 other Indian languagesHousing finance major HDFC Ltd has localised its website in six Indian languages, in addition to English, to help home buyers get home loan related information more effectively.
The website content is now also available in Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada, even as English continues to be a widely used language on digital platforms in India, HDFC said.
HDFC Ltd is the only corporate in the financial sector to offer content on its website in six Indian languages, it added.<br />
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The growing use of internet and smartphones and rising base of regional language users, particularly in smaller towns, has made it important to focus on building digital properties and content where relevant information is available in local language as well, it said. [<a href="https://www.livemint.com/industry/banking/now-hdfc-website-in-hindi-marathi-4-other-indian-languages-to-help-home-loan-buyers-11571558854343.html" target="_blank">Source</a>]debashishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05581506338446555105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-563311092998124478.post-970472347622517362019-09-22T20:50:00.000+05:302019-12-19T20:53:59.550+05:30Flipkart, Amazon bank on Hindi apps to tap the next 20 crore usersE-commerce major Flipkart recently launched its Hindi interface, allowing for its products across platforms (website and app) to be browsed in the language. Amazon, too, now offers Hindi browsing options on its website and iOS app; last year, the global e-commerce behemoth had introduced Hindi on its mobile site and Android app. These efforts are an attempt to capture the next 200 million users.<br />
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Experts say the vernacular market in the country presents a massive opportunity for e-commerce players. As per a recently released report by RedSeer Consulting, there are 530 million internet users in India, of which 260 million users are ‘monetizable’. The report says a large share of this audience, 80% or about 210 million, prefers content in vernacular languages and are likely to drive the growth of consumer internet, with $300 billion in annual spending power. However, sustained efforts beyond just providing language options will be the name of the game, say experts.<br />
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After having introduced its Hindi interface, Flipkart is now gearing up to introduce audio-guided navigation on its platform to help new users on the platform. “We started with Hindi and the plan is to go ahead with other languages as well in the future. Within a year, we plan to introduce southern languages on our platform,” says a Flipkart spokesperson. Experts say Amazon, too, would use audio in some way to tap new users, given that it already has voice technology (Alexa). [<a href="https://www.financialexpress.com/industry/e-tailers-are-launching-apps-in-hindi-but-initiative-is-not-without-challenges/1713622/" target="_blank">Source</a>]debashishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05581506338446555105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-563311092998124478.post-75518774190642985172019-09-18T20:46:00.000+05:302019-12-19T20:49:20.631+05:30Alexa kitne baje hein?Only about 10% of India’s 1.3 billion people know English. Yet, that is the only language Amazon’s digital assistant Alexa, which was launched in India two years ago, understands in the nation. That is changing today.<br />
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The e-commerce giant informed that <b>Alexa now supports Hindi</b>, a language spoken by roughly half a billion people in India, as the company looks to expand its reach in the nation. Bringing support for Hindi to Alexa was in the works for more than a year, noting the unique contextual, cultural and content-related challenges that Hindi implementation posed.<br />
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Users can now ask Alexa their questions in Hindi, and the digital assistant will be able to respond in the same language. The feature, which will begin rolling out through a software update to Alexa devices starting today, currently only supports one voice type for Hindi. (For English, Alexa offers multiple voice types.) Watch the video to see her in action (Source: Quint).<br />
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In the months to come, Amazon said it plans to add support for multilingual households, which will enable members of the family to interact with Alexa in the language they each prefer. Amazon last year introduced support for Hindi language on its apps and website. It has seen Hindi usage grow on the site and app by six times in recent months, he said. [<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/18/amazon-alexa-hindi-india/" target="_blank">Source</a>]debashishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05581506338446555105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-563311092998124478.post-59380768434866619452019-05-09T20:31:00.000+05:302019-12-19T20:33:07.628+05:30Most Of India Prefers Using Hindi For SearchA new report from Google titled “Year in Search: Insights for Brands Report” says that 70% of all smartphones-related searches in India come from <i>Bharat</i>.
Hindi queries related to laptops and PCs have doubled while there has been a 2.3X increase in Hindi queries about smartphones and mobile phones. Also, queries in regional languages are growing faster than English in ecommerce categories like clothing, beauty, and personal care.<br />
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“Indian language internet users are expected to account for nearly 75% of India’s internet user base by 2021, and Google search trends show a significant move in this direction,” the report said.<br />
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Vikas Agnihotri, country director, Google India, believes that the online space in India has never been more vibrant. “India has become the fastest internet consuming country in the world and the internet has now become the bridge to Bharat’s aspirations,” he added.
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[<a href="https://inc42.com/buzz/most-of-india-prefers-using-hindi-for-search-says-google/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Source</a>]debashishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05581506338446555105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-563311092998124478.post-41806392335115478382012-07-28T16:22:00.000+05:302012-07-28T16:24:21.258+05:30PMI launches the PMBOK in Hindi<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge better known as the PMBOK® Guide published by the Project Management Institute (PMI) has made a debut in India with a Hindi edition. Regarded as the project manager's bible worldwide, the PMBOK Guide is recognized by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) as an American National Standard.<br />
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India being a fast growing country has taken up various projects across sectors like infrastructure, IT, construction, housing, railway, etc. Project Management plays a vital role in successful and timely running and completion of projects. Understanding the importance of project managers in India, PMBOK Guide has been translated to Hindi.<br />
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The Guide recognizes 42 processes that fall into five basic process groups and nine knowledge areas that are typical of almost all projects. Each of the nine knowledge areas contains the processes that need to be accomplished within its discipline in order to achieve an effective project management program. Each of these processes also falls into one of the five basic process groups, creating a matrix structure such that every process can be related to one knowledge area and one process group.</div>debashishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05581506338446555105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-563311092998124478.post-17310622863147869282010-10-22T04:20:00.005+05:302010-11-09T04:32:59.700+05:30Google introduces Music search in Hindi<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl06J6OsOd0Npza-lCvFv1HDszXCboBJ7dQ_SiuzlN-Ic9X1Uj4a2GwHIt9GZ6nnlTRlRJefOsH9sqDS9Adcb8SmLaZtNoUV4lvs2FHgwy4FtlEDr4__B1LV_CNm2_-qsDc5StymCouYk/s1600/google-music.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl06J6OsOd0Npza-lCvFv1HDszXCboBJ7dQ_SiuzlN-Ic9X1Uj4a2GwHIt9GZ6nnlTRlRJefOsH9sqDS9Adcb8SmLaZtNoUV4lvs2FHgwy4FtlEDr4__B1LV_CNm2_-qsDc5StymCouYk/s1600/google-music.jpg" /></a></div>Google India labs has launched its online music service in India that enables users to search for legal music streams and downloads. It has partnered with In.com, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.saregama.com/" rel="homepage" title="Sa Re Ga Ma">Saregama</a> and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.saavn.com/" rel="homepage" title="Saavn">Saavn</a>. The three digital music providers, hold rights to hundreds of thousands of Indian tracks - ranging from old and new Bollywood hits to Indian classical music.<br />
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The <a href="http://www.google.co.in/music">music search service</a> currently indexes only Hindi songs. Users can search for a particular song, an album or even for artists. On clicking the search results the songs play on a pop-up window.<br />
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Google had first launched a music search feature in October 2009 for which they had partnered with MySpace, Pandora and Rhapshody amongst others. Music related search ranks high on the most used search keywords on Google.<br />
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<li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/10/google-music-search-india.html">Google Music Search India</a> (googlesystem.blogspot.com)</li>
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As India is slowly emerging as an economic giant, a prominent American university has launched an intensive two-year course that will prepare MBA students to thrive in the business community of India. The Hindi Program, of the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.upenn.edu/" rel="homepage" title="University of Pennsylvania">University of Pennsylvania</a>’s Lauder Institute in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=39.9533333333,-75.17&spn=0.1,0.1&q=39.9533333333,-75.17%20%28Philadelphia%29&t=h" rel="geolocation" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a>, will culminate with a <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/" rel="homepage" title="Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania">Wharton School</a> MBA and Master of Arts and the expertise to navigate in and with India’s business community.<br />
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The University of Pennsylvania is a founding member of the American Institute of Indian Studies, while Wharton School is a founding partner of the Indian School of Business, and its faculty includes several experts on the Indian economy and business sector. <i>(Source: PTI)</i>
</div>debashishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05581506338446555105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-563311092998124478.post-33319060431140229472010-08-23T02:51:00.004+05:302010-10-01T03:44:46.799+05:30Scandinavian children's literature now in Hindi<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway" rel="wikipedia" title="Norway">Norway</a> has opened its treasure chest of children's literature to vernacular readers in India by translating four Norwegian books in Hindi. This is the second lot of Norwegian children's literature to be translated in English. Last year, the Embassy of Norway had translated four children's books into Hindi.<span class="zemanta-img separator zemanta-action-dragged"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Pippi-Longstocking-Astrid-Lindgren/dp/0140309578%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dzemanta-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0140309578" style="clear: right; display: block; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Cover of "Pippi Longstocking"" height="320" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5127YDVCJYL._SL300_.jpg" style="border: medium none; font-size: 0.8em;" width="203" /></a><i><b><span class="zemanta-img-attribution" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; width: 191px;">Cover of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Pippi-Longstocking-Astrid-Lindgren/dp/0140309578%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dzemanta-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0140309578">Pippi Longstocking</a></span></b></i></span><br />
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The books translated this year include '<i>Naye Ghar Mein Gadbadi</i>' written by Av Lene Ask, '<i>Chai ki Ketli</i>' by Jan Kora Olen, '<i>Dost ya Dushman</i>' by Kala Benedik and Trond Braenne; and '<i>Rajkumar Bho-Bho</i>' by Bjorn Ousland. The translation projects have been funded by a non-profit Norwegian literary forum, Norla which is supporting the translation of yet another book, 'Out Stealing Horses', a work of fiction by Per Petterson, in three Indian languages. It will be released late autumn.<br />
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Besides, the organisation is also helping translate selected works of Norwegian playwright Ibsen in Indian languages. The Norwegian children's books in Hindi are 'pictorial novels' with colourful illustrations and accompanying texts. The books are subsidised and cost Rs.50 each.<br />
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Norway, along with <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark" rel="wikipedia" title="Denmark">Denmark</a> and Sweden has a rich history of children's and young adult's literature. The northern nations' greatest legacy to children's literature are Danish raconteur Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales and Sweden's <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrid_Lindgren" rel="wikipedia" title="Astrid Lindgren">Astrid Lindgren</a>'s cult heroine <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pippi_Longstocking_%28book%29" rel="wikipedia" title="Pippi Longstocking (book)">Pippi Longstocking</a>.<br />
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The committee of Parliament on Official language (संसदीय राजभाषा समिति), <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.mha.nic.in/" rel="homepage" title="Ministry of Home Affairs (India)">Ministry of Home Affairs</a>, Government of India has created a useful bilingual website which would be helpful for the Central Government employees and Hindi officers. The website is maintained by National Informatics Centre. The website is available at <a href="http://rajbhashasamiti.gov.in/">http://rajbhashasamiti.gov.in</a>.<br />
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Another useful website is at <a href="http://rajbhasha.nic.in/">http://rajbhasha.nic.in</a>.<br />
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<li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson/2010/08/language_politics">Hindi at the UN?</a> (economist.com)</li>
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The number of candidates who cleared the IIT <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Institute_of_Technology_Joint_Entrance_Examination" rel="wikipedia" title="Indian Institute of Technology Joint Entrance Examination">Joint Entrance Examination</a> after taking the test in Hindi is three times the number in 2009, apparently bucking a trend of poor performances despite question paper errors disadvantaging them.<br />
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As many as 554 candidates who took the test in Hindi have qualified, compared with 184 last year, the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Institutes_of_Technology" rel="wikipedia" title="Indian Institutes of Technology">IITs</a> said while declaring their results today after over a month of controversy over instruction errors.<br />
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The IIT decision to declare the number of Hindi qualifiers was a first and was a direct outcome of concerns that the errors in question papers selectively hurt students who took the test in that language.<br />
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Interestingly such a tool was created by <a href="http://devanaagarii.net/">Alok Kumar</a> quite some time back (2005 to be precise) and he had named it "<i>Girgit</i>" (Hindi for Chameleon). The tool is available at <a href="http://girgit.chitthajagat.in/">http://girgit.chitthajagat.in</a>. Apparently<i> Girgit </i>also supports Gurumukhi (Punjabi) and Oriya (Odiya) not currently supported by Google's converter.debashishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05581506338446555105noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-563311092998124478.post-22714799777831249912009-10-30T23:00:00.001+05:302010-09-27T03:36:10.102+05:30Now Internet URLs entirely in your own languageMoving away from Latin characters, Internationalized domain names (<a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000225538" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name" rel="wikipedia" title="Internationalized domain name">IDN</a>) or the address that internet users type in the URL can soon be typed entirely in your own language (including the TLD). As result of the initiative by the Department of Information Technology (DIT) and <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000c70be0" href="http://www.cdac.in/" rel="homepage" title="Centre for Development of Advanced Computing">C-DAC</a>, by June 2010, typing domain name, like hindionweb.blogspot.com, in any of the 22 Indian language will become a reality.<br />
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Initially, it will be available for only new websites with dot in IDNs. A few government domain names such as pradhanmantri.in or bharat.in have been reserved. Despite of this welcome move there are several issues that still need to be resolved, especially issues arising out of the complexity of Indian scripts (for example: how do you distinguish between URLs types in Marathi and Hindi, since both use Devanagari script).debashishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05581506338446555105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-563311092998124478.post-60590130172230965432009-09-09T10:00:00.000+05:302009-09-09T10:00:08.422+05:30Cisco to localize its router software<div class="zemanta-img" style="display: block; float: left; margin: 1em; width: 260px;"><a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/cisco"><img alt="Image representing Cisco as depicted in CrunchBase" height="77" src="http://www.crunchbase.com/assets/images/resized/0001/8309/18309v1-max-250x250.png" style="border: medium none; display: block;" width="150" /></a><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Image via <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/">CrunchBase</a></span></div>In an <a href="http://www.thinkdigit.com/Networking/Interview-Cisco-design-chief-on-how-they_3404.html">interview with Digit</a> magazine, Eskild Hansen, Head of the European Design Centre at <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000064f35" href="http://www.cisco.com/" rel="homepage" title="Cisco">Cisco</a> told them what the latter thought of the Indian market in terms of Internet and Wi-Fi usage, as well as what Cisco's plans were for customised content. "India has close to one billion people, so there are a huge number of people who can use the Internet," Hansen said. "Currently, there is no support for Hindi (in our router software), but we are trying to localise it as much as possible."debashishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05581506338446555105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-563311092998124478.post-133069386265220652009-09-06T16:21:00.001+05:302009-09-06T16:22:24.750+05:30Lawyers campaign to argue cases in Hindi<div class="zemanta-img" style="margin: 1em; display: block; float: right; width: 108px;"><a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Lady_justice_standing.png"><img alt="Lady Justice" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/Lady_justice_standing.png" style="border: medium none ; display: block;" width="98" height="172"></a><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Image via <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Lady_justice_standing.png">Wikipedia</a></span></div>A group of lawyers have started a signature campaign in Delhi High Court and the five district courts of the capital, requesting that they be allowed to argue their cases in Hindi also apart from the English language now used. "We have received a huge response from the lawyers and collected over 3,000 signatures so far to support our campaign," said Ashok Aggarwal, president of the Delhi unit of the lawyers’ association.<br />
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"When lawyers argue in Hindi, judges do not pay attention to them and English has become a status symbol," Aggarwal said. Moreover, Article 348 of the constitution provides for arguing court cases in English as well as regional languages, Aggarwal pointed out.<br />
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Hindi is being used in the high courts of Rajasthan, Allahabad and Madhya Pradesh, but not in the national capital, according to the lawyers’ union. (Source: IANS)debashishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05581506338446555105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-563311092998124478.post-72143895471246075472009-09-02T22:45:00.001+05:302009-09-02T22:54:31.893+05:30Indic language script usage growing on Orkut<div class="zemanta-img zemanta-action-dragged" style="display: block; float: right; margin: 1em; width: 208px;"><a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/product/orkut"><img alt="Image representing Orkut as depicted in CrunchBase" height="71" src="http://www.crunchbase.com/assets/images/resized/0001/2887/12887v2-max-250x250.jpg" style="border: medium none; display: block;" width="198" /></a><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> Image via <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/">CrunchBase</a></span></div>Medianama <a href="http://www.medianama.com/2009/09/223-orkut-interview-part-1-zeitgeist-plans-indic-languages-more/" target="_blank">interviewed Rahul Kulkarni</a>, a Product Manager at Google India about the newly launched Orkut Zeitgeist. Following were his comments about the growth of use of Indian language scripts on Orkut:<br />
<blockquote>"...we are seeing combination of Hindi-English, Malayalam-English or Kannada-English, Marathi-English. Its difficult to mine or understand this data because in India it is varied - we are talking 26 languages in combination with English...The vast majority (of users) is still in English script, though Indic language is growing, after transliteration was introduced. We see more communities using it. One such is the Hindi poetry community. <i>(Source: Medianama)</i>"</blockquote>The growth is a welcome change, especially given the fact that Orkut is predominantly student driven in India. As for the "Poetry community" we would rather keep mum ;) Haven't Hindi bloggers tolerated them enough already?debashishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05581506338446555105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-563311092998124478.post-27552958840134598932009-08-22T00:52:00.003+05:302009-08-29T02:14:58.823+05:30Write in Hindi, Read in Punjabi<div class="zemanta-img" style="display: block; float: right; margin: 1em; width: 95px;"><a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Punjabi_gurmukhi_shahmukhi.png"><img alt="Punjabi language" height="86" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Punjabi_gurmukhi_shahmukhi.png" style="border: medium none; display: block;" width="85" /></a>Image via <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Punjabi_gurmukhi_shahmukhi.png">Wikipedia</a></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_quote">Vishal Goyal, a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Computer Science, <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000007dac13" href="http://www.punjabiuniversity.ac.in/" rel="homepage" title="Punjabi University">Punjabi University</a>, Patiala who is doing Ph.D. under the guidance of Dr. Gurpreet Singh Lehal, Professor, Department of Computer Science has developed <a href="http://h2p.learnpunjabi.org/default.aspx" target="_blank">a web based machine translation system</a> which can convert text input in Hindi into Punjabi after translation. You may also translate complete Hindi webpages by specifying the URL, though the processing is annoyingly slow at the moment. [Source: Punjab Newsline Network]<br />
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<b><i>Editor's note: </i></b><strike>We found that presently the system only accepts input text typed using Krutidev, a popular True type font in Hindi, and doesn't work with Unicode.</strike> Vishal clarified in his comment that the tool works with Unicode.</div></div></div></div>debashishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05581506338446555105noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-563311092998124478.post-82757075608658393882009-08-18T01:05:00.002+05:302009-08-22T02:00:45.594+05:30Dunia Dekho: A Travel Portal in Hindi<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfWTdcP4HRQDo53atWfNIL6R2S7QG83RIhw-MT6JYvTwTu-QYUCrRlFxAGsilpI2YUkQ_K_LIItz9AHi2eQuH4MuckAvFGsK1XE_ryx5Z8rHByECYE-tPC1WcBxzKU4jlRnfAYpWYgk7c/s1600-h/dunia-dekho.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372505272810360786" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfWTdcP4HRQDo53atWfNIL6R2S7QG83RIhw-MT6JYvTwTu-QYUCrRlFxAGsilpI2YUkQ_K_LIItz9AHi2eQuH4MuckAvFGsK1XE_ryx5Z8rHByECYE-tPC1WcBxzKU4jlRnfAYpWYgk7c/s400/dunia-dekho.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 146px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 229px;" /></a>Ghaziabad based digital media company ADS Media has launched a Travel Portal "<a href="http://www.duniadekho.com/"><i>Dunia Dekho</i></a>" entirely in Hindi, which they claim is the first such website in the language.Website's editor Arjun Deshpremi believes that the portal would be an excellent resource for Hindi speaking tourists from around the World. The website would also include news items related to the tourism industry and would allow readers to upload their travel anecdotes along with pictures. <span style="font-style: italic;">[Source: </span><a href="http://www.prabhatkhabar.com/news/13174.aspx" style="font-style: italic;">Prabhatkhabar</a><span style="font-style: italic;">]</span>debashishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05581506338446555105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-563311092998124478.post-56645191815135962572009-08-16T01:16:00.000+05:302009-08-22T01:37:16.215+05:30Kalkion.com launches Hindi Science Fiction website<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN8w_yCg0ScPGCuBgVtG_mIGEsBaBkG3-YTyPZf5cqr_RP2IViLGEP6iKkLhJOtXdz69M6XAVHRaoZtm-7eYc5G8hksIlBNGNlm-EtwWY1pPpZ6t6vK_YRCCWT3NFuOQ29zsOeOqAzeJw/s1600-h/robot.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 80px; height: 100px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN8w_yCg0ScPGCuBgVtG_mIGEsBaBkG3-YTyPZf5cqr_RP2IViLGEP6iKkLhJOtXdz69M6XAVHRaoZtm-7eYc5G8hksIlBNGNlm-EtwWY1pPpZ6t6vK_YRCCWT3NFuOQ29zsOeOqAzeJw/s400/robot.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372507040081562818" border="0" /></a>Noida based Kalkion Group has today launched the <a href="http://hindi.kalkion.com/">Hindi edition of Kalkion.com</a>, a multi-lingual and multi-cultural <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000035120" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction" title="Science fiction" rel="wikipedia">science fiction</a> and fantasy web magazine. It claims to be the world's first science fiction website in Hindi. The site will publish science fiction stories, fantasies, articles, interviews, news and blogs.<br /><br />Kalkion was launched on April 15th 2009 and their editorial board is contemplating launch of other multi-lingual editions of Kalkion. The inaugural issue includes an interview of Dr Rajeev Ranjan Upadhyaya along-with several SF stories. <div style="margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;" class="zemanta-pixie"><img style="border: medium none ; float: right;" class="zemanta-pixie-img" alt="" src="http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=c62ec306-0a69-4cd2-8309-dbec2a4e88cb" /><span class="zem-script more-related more-info pretty-attribution paragraph-reblog"><script type="text/javascript" src="http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js" defer="defer"></script></span></div>debashishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05581506338446555105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-563311092998124478.post-68079695041808642382009-08-07T01:25:00.000+05:302009-08-22T01:40:03.208+05:30Nepalese MP demands second national language status for HindiA Nepalese lawmaker and leader of a <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000005562cd0" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhesi_people" title="Madhesi people" rel="wikipedia">Madhesi</a> party has demanded that Hindi, which had played a vital role in unifying Nepal, should be given recognition as the second national language in the country's Constitution.<br />Rameshwor Roy Yadav, general secretary of the Madhesi People's Rights Party (Democratic) said Hindi had played a vital role in unifying Nepal as it was a contact language among people speaking different mother tongues. He demanded that Hindi be given recognition as the second national language in the Nepalese Constitution.<br />Speaking on "the present and future of Hindi language in Nepal" at a programme here, Mr. Roy recalled how he was kicked out of Parliament nine times in 1991 for speaking in Hindi. He said a marshal was asked to take him out of the Parliament repeatedly for speaking in Hindi, he said, adding the incident was also raised in the Indian Parliament. "After that pressure was created upon Nepal government and finally the Chairman of the Upper House or National Assembly Beni Bahadur Karki allowed me to speak in Hindi in the Parliament," he said.<br />Referring to the controversy that erupted after Vice President Parmananda Jha took the oath of office in Hindi, he said: "when the use of the language was allowed in the parliament then why (Mr. Jha) couldn't take oath of office and secrecy in Hindi". [PTI] <div style="margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;" class="zemanta-pixie"><img style="border: medium none ; float: right;" class="zemanta-pixie-img" alt="" src="http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=07f8b3d4-9e48-4dbd-a5f9-163b01fdaa0b" /><span class="zem-script more-related more-info pretty-attribution paragraph-reblog"><script type="text/javascript" src="http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js" defer="defer"></script></span></div>debashishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05581506338446555105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-563311092998124478.post-55349322063346151782009-07-31T01:47:00.000+05:302009-08-22T01:51:16.278+05:30Google Transliteration now Available in Urdu and Punjabi<p class="zemanta-img" style="margin: 1em; float: right; display: block; width: 247px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Google.png"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/51/Google.png/300px-Google.png" alt="Google, Inc." style="border: medium none ; display: block; width: 237px; height: 86px;" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;"><span class="zemanta-img-attribution">Image via <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Google.png">Wikipedia</a></span></span></p>"<a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000003f243" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urdu" title="Urdu" rel="wikipedia">Urdu</a> brought with it some unique challenges: since it is written right to left, we needed to ensure that editing functions such as backspace, tab, etc all work as expected. Urdu diacriticals, or 'Aerabs', also needed special attention as they map the <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000004015c" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vowel" title="Vowel" rel="wikipedia">vowel</a> sounds but are not necessarily visible in the word. For <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000003210d" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punjabi_language" title="Punjabi language" rel="wikipedia">Punjabi</a>, the '<span style="font-style: italic;">addak</span>', '<span style="font-style: italic;">tippi</span>' and '<span style="font-style: italic;">bindi</span>' posed its own challenge as they change the <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000009dbc17" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intonation_%28linguistics%29" title="Intonation (linguistics)" rel="wikipedia">intonation</a> of the previous character. "[<a target="_blank" href="http://googleindia.blogspot.com/2009/07/google-transliteration-now-available-in.html">Read details at Google blog</a>] <div style="margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;" class="zemanta-pixie"><img style="border: medium none ; float: right;" class="zemanta-pixie-img" alt="" src="http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=ceba81a1-d7c8-458f-973c-a8a10a30fbb4" /><span class="zem-script more-related more-info pretty-attribution paragraph-reblog"><script type="text/javascript" src="http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js" defer="defer"></script></span></div>debashishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05581506338446555105noreply@blogger.com0