T he first-of-its-kind international conference on Prakrit will be held in Shravanabelagola from November 3. The conference is part of several events organised in the run-up to the once-in-12-year ...

New Delhi: The Infosys Science Foundation on Wednesday announced the six winners of the Infosys Prize 2025, facilitating scholars from a range of fields such as engineering, life sciences, and ...

In a major decision, the Union Cabinet on Thursday approved giving the status of "classical language" to five more languages - Marathi, Bengali, Pali, Prakrit and Assamese. As a fresh batch gets ready ...

Prakrit, a group of Indo-Aryan languages, has garnered negligible attention. However, recently, the Union Cabinet declared it a classical language. As opposed to Sanskrit, primarily spoken by the ...

Former Chief Minister Veerappa Moily called upon Prakrit scholars to make efforts to take the language to the common folk. “Prakrit had a great influence on the Indian literary tradition and it is ...

Professor S. Settar’s new book Prakruta Jagadvalaya is more than an important addition to repertoire of thought-provoking books on Kannada language and culture. Its value can best be indicated through ...

In the Middle Ages (5th century BC to 12th century AD) when Sanskrit was enjoying the position of Devabhasa (language of the gods) in India, especially in northern parts, the citizens of various ...

Each year, the Infosys Prize arrives like a quiet counter to the noise around instant fame. While the world scrolls fast, this award—with its gold medal, citation, and USD 100,000 purse—reminds us ...

The National Educational Testing Bureau of University Grants Commission (UGC) conducts National Eligibility Test (NET) for appointment of Lecturers in colleges and universities and for award of Junior ...

For historians, the implications are immediate. They reveal how ancient traders from the subcontinent interacted with the ...