Windows XP ® हिंदी इंटरफ़ेस पैक डाउनलोड:
"Windows XP Professional या Windows XP Home Edition के लिए हिंदी इंटरफ़ेस पैक कई Windows XP User Interface को एक हिंदी यूज़र इंटरफ़ेस प्रदान करता है."

Related news: Microsoft unveils Hindi interface for Windows XP

The Daily Princetonian - University to offer Hindi language classes in the fall semester

"Ravi Shah '06 came to Princeton with a mission to bring Hindi — the national language of India, which boasts the second-largest population in the world — to the classroom. Just a year and a half later, although he said he finds it almost hard to believe, the University will offer beginner courses in Hindi starting next fall. Intermediate and advanced Hindi classes will be offered the following year for the first time ever at Princeton."
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'Teens, young adults no longer favour English' : HindustanTimes.com/UK: News for UK Asians:

"English is slowly losing its popularity among 15-24 year-olds, according to a language expert. It is expected that in the world language table, English will be overtaken by Hindi/Urdu and Arabic in the next 50 years.

According to David Graddol, a language consultant writing in the journal Science, nine years ago English (372 million) was second only to Chinese (1.1 billion) in terms of the overall number of people speaking it as their first language.

Graddol, director of the Milton Keynes-based consultancy, The English Company (UK) Ltd, said that by 2050 English will lose its supremacy and slip to fourth among 15-24 year olds. Chinese will dominate in this age group, with 166 million speakers, followed by Hindi/Urdu (73.7 million) and Arabic (72.2 million). English speakers will number 65 million."

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Microsoft Office in Hindi now:

"Microsoft India has launched the Hindi version of its popular Office software which includes Microsoft Word, Excel, Frontpage, Powerpoint and Outlook among others.

Called 'Office Hindi', the product includes a Hindi language interface will allow users to create documents and communicate with others in Hindi and navigate easily using the menus and toolbars that will be in Hindi.

Microsoft has termed the release as 'reiterating the commitment to taking IT to the grassroots.'

'Office Hindi will bring about a productivity revolution among those untouched by the power of computing due to language barriers. We expect this offering to be particularly popular with central and state government, public sector undertakings, the banking industry, educational institutes and the local developer community,' says Rajiv Kaul, Managing Director, Microsoft India.

The two editions of the product, Office Hindi Professional and Office Hindi Standard, will be available through Microsoft's regular sales channels. Microsoft has also announced the availability of online resources, training material and partner support to ensure that customers can smoothly adopt and integrate the offering into their infrastructure."

Red Hat To Roll Out Linux OS Hindi Version

"NEW DELHI: In a couple of months, Red Hat is rolling out a Hindi version of the Linux operating system in India. Red Hat Inc chief executive officer and president Matthew Szulik told eFE that the revenue from India is likely to double this calendar over the last year."

AXN now in Hindi : scoops@glamsham.com:

"Maybe it was inevitable. Almost every major English channel in the country is now telecast in national language Hindi.

Channels like Discovery and Cartoon Network have greatly benefited after starting their Hindi broadcasts.

And from Monday, AXN too has introduced a dual feed in Hindi and English from 8 p.m.-9 p.m. Monday to Friday.

Premiering with the hugely popular 'Ripley's Believe It or Not', this initiative will gradually be expanded to include some of the channel's highest rated shows. "

I&B Minister condemns use of 'administrative Hindi' : HindustanTimes.com
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Information and Broadcasting Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Thursday deprecated the use of "administrative Hindi" saying it was a stumbling block in the popularity of the language.

"Administrative Hindi makes the language difficult by using less understood words and thereby affects communication in Hindi which is otherwise smooth and easy," Prasad said while releasing the reference manual India 2004 in English and its Hindi edition Bharat 2004 brought out by the research, reference and training division and published by the Publications Division.

Prasad made these comments as he was irked over the Hindi nomenclature of the research, reference and training division.
[In this connection, he said the Hindi word for research ('gaveshna') in 'Research, Reference and Training Division' was too complex for the common man to understand and a simpler word like 'shodh' could be used.]
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Business Standard .. Newspaper sales up 24% in 2002-03
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The present report contains an analysis for 15 months from January 1, 2002 to March 31, 2003. Among the multi-edition dailies, Dainik Bhaskar, publishing in Hindi, has the largest circulation of 1.71 million copies, followed by Times of India with 1.39 million copies.

For single-edition dailies, Hindustan Times has a circulation of 1.11 million copies, while The Hindu is second with 922,407 copies.
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Business Standard .. TV18 to start Hindi business news channels

Television Eighteen India Ltd (TV18), co-promoter of the English business news channel, CNBC India, will launch its 24-hour Hindi business news channel in the next financial year.

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With the launch of the Hindi business channel, TV18 is eyeing a 30 per cent growth in its sales revenue.
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CIOL : News : Adobe's Hindi version, two months away:

"BANGALORE: Software maker, Adobe will be releasing the Hindi version of its software applications in the next couple of months. 'It is beyond the conceptualization stage and is almost in the releasing stage. In another couple of months you should see us releasing the Hindi version,' said Bruce Chizen, President and CEO of Adobe Systems Inc."

पीटीआई वेबसाइट का उद्घाटन

नयी दिल्ली, 27 सितंबर : भाषा : देश की प्रतिष्ठित संवाद समिति प्रेस ट्रस्ट आफ इंडिया ने आज अपने अंग्रेजी और हिंदी के आनलाइन डिलीवरी सिस्टम : ओडीएस : का उद्घाटन किया और इसके साथ ही पीटीआई अंग्रेजी और पीटीआई भाषा तथा पीटीआई फोटो सेवा इंटरनेट पर उपलब्ध हो गयीं।

पीटीआई के महाप्रबंधक और मुख्य संपादक एम के राजदान ने यहां पीटीआई मुख्यालय में आयोजित एक समारोह में इस वेबसाइट का उद्घाटन किया।

अब पीटीआई की सभी सेवाएं डब्ल्यू डब्ल्यू डब्ल्यू.पीटीआईन्यूज.काम पर उपलब्ध होंगी।

इस अवसर पर पीटीआई के अध्यक्ष एम पी वीरेन्द्र कुमार ने अपने संदेश में कहा कि संवाद समिति की अपनी वेबसाइट चालू होना पीटीआई के तकनीकी उन्नयन में एक और मील का पत्थर साबित हो रहा है।

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Microsoft to set up lab for promoting Hindi:

"Chandigarh: To promote the use of Hindi in computer applications, Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd would set up a Research and Development (R&D) laboratory at Kurukshetra University.

Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala assured state government's assistance to Microsoft and suggested that while developing Hindi software, care should be taken to use such words which would be easy to understand and simple to write.

Appreciating the initiative taken by the state to promote the use of Hindi in computer application, Rajiv Kaul, MD Microsoft India, sought the cooperation of Haryana government in undertaking research and development in this area.

Microsoft had already made investment in developing software for Hindi, Kaul said adding it would be necessary to set up a Hindi laboratory in Haryana for further R&D."