Mandarin and Punjabi are the two languages that are most commonly spoken in the nation after English and French, which are also its two official languages.
On May 5, the state government kick-started a drive to fill 26,454 vacancies, including a large number of posts from the Group C and D categories.
On the demand by the different state governments, the Union Ministry, however, has decided that from 2021 this entrance test would be conducted in Assamese, Bengali, Tamil, Kannada, Urdu, Marathi, Oriya and Telugu as well," Bajwa has written to the Union minister, said a Punjab government statement here.
A group of private schools in Pakistan owned by former foreign minister Khurshid Mahmood Kasuri has banned Punjabi within and outside the campus after terming it a "foul language", drawing flak from millions of people.
New Delhi: Six more authors on Sunday have joined the ranks of litterateurs who have returned their Sahitya Akademi awards protesting against "rising intolerance" in the country.Among the six were five Punjabi writers — Akademi
London, Jan 30: Punjabi, Urdu, Bengali and Gujarati are among the top 10 languages spoken in Britain, according to latest census figures.BBC reported that the number of people in England and Wales who could not
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