Languges spoken in india

There are 18 major languages spoken in India and over 1600 regional dialects. Even though Hindi is the official language, many people in India do not speak it at all. Hindi is spoken by about half the population, mostly in North India. Most languages have their own script. Some of the major languages are Hindi, English, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Kashmiri, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.

English is the second major language spoken in India and is used for much of the official business. It is the official language of the judiciary. Many people prefer to use English as a common language over Hindi. English is the first language for many people, especially in the big cities. A large percentage of people in India can speak and read English.

Each state in the South has its own language—Tamil in Tamil Nadu; Telegu in Andhra Pradesh; Kanada in Karnataka; and Malayalam in Kerala.

Major Languages

Assamese About 60% of the population of Assam speaks Assamese.

Bengali It is the state language of West Bengal. Many people in Bengal only speak Bengali and do not speak Hindi or English.

Gujarati State language of Gujarat.

Hindi This is the first language of about 20% of India. It is the first language in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. It is the official language of the Indian government.

Kannada State language of Karnataka.

Kashmiri About 55% of the population of Jammu & Kashmir speak this language. It is written in an Arabic script.

Konkani It is the language spoken in Goa.

Malayalam State language of Kerala.

Manipuri Spoken in northeast India.

Marathi State language of Maharashtra. Also spoken in Mumbai.

Nepali This is the main language in Nepal and Sikkim.

Oriya State language of Orissa.

Punjabi State language of the Punjab.

Sanskrit It is the language that the Vedic scriptures are written in and it is one of the oldest languages in the world. Very few people speak this language now.

Sindhi This language is spoken in Pakistan or by people that were from this area.

Tamil State language of Tamil Nadu. 65 million people speak this language.

Telugu State language of Andhra Pradesh.

Urdu State language of Jammu & Kashmir. Urdu was developed in Delhi and is mainly spoken by the Muslim population. It is written in the Arabic script and includes many Persian words.

India us austalia third test

Double centuries from aggressive Gautam Gambhir and charismatic VVS Laxman took India to a mammoth total of 613(dec) at the loss of 7 wickets at the end of Day 2 of the third Test against Australia at Ferozshah Kotla in New Delhi. This is India's fourth highest first innings score against the visitors from Down Under.

The word - 'Bombardment' seems to be apt for the kind of run-flow India brought in their first innings total. In reply to which, Matthew Hayden (16*) and Simon Katich (29*) scored 50/0 by the end of second day's play.

Skipper Anil Kumble waited for 'Very Very Special' Laxman to complete his second double ton against Aussies and declared the innings as soon as he embraced the feat. Amidst the ongoing retirement debates, Laxman let his bat do the talking and hopefully answered in a better way to some of his critics.

His first double ton (281) also came against the world champions in the historic Eden Gardens Test in 2001. Laxman played a crucial role in the 278-run partnership with Gautam Gambhir for the fourth wicket before Shane Watson dismissed the latter for 206 runs.

When Kotla crowd looked charmed by the VVS-Gambhir's show, Australian all-rounder Shane Watson broke the duo's rhythm and gave his side a few moments to rejoice by picking two quick wickets of local boy Gambhir and vice-captain MS Dhoni.

Retiring veteran Sourav Ganguly soon walked back after adding just five runs to his team's score. His outing was cut short by part-time bowler Simon Katich as he holed one to Ponting at short cover.

Gambhir, who scored his first double hundred, slaughtered Australian bowling to register his second ton of the Border-Gavaskar series. Watson, who had a verbal war with the Indian opener on the first day, had the last laugh when Gambhir nicked his delivery that crashed into the stumps.

Dhoni's cameo of 27 runs was put to end by Watson. He edged a delivery that was going outside the off-stump and wicket-keeper Haddin took a diving catch.

Then came in Anil Kumble who played a fine supporting role to VVS Laxman. But, Oz pacer Mitchell Johnson interrupted the Kumble-Kotla love affair by dismissing the skipper on 45. India was then at the verge of crossing 600-run mark.

Zaheer Khan (28*) added some glitter to the Laxman's innings by flicking few balls out of the boundary rope.

India's run-riot definitely depicted the positivity in the batting department. Laxman and Gambhir were the show-stealers as they leave Australia beleaguered.

golmaal returns movie review

The trials of the most keenly awaited Diwali release, Golmaal Returns, have started in Mumbai.

On Sunday evening, the producers, Shree Ashtavinayak Cinevision, and the worldwide distributors, Indian Films - Studio 18 had an in-house trial, at which the response to the film was absolutely exemplary.

The other big show on Sunday evening was at Fun Republic, which was attended by Ajay Devgan, Kajol, Tusshar Kapoor, Shreyas Talpade, Celina Jaitly, Rohit Shetty, Manish Malhotra and their families. According to sources, the celebrities and their folk were seen laughing and clapping unstoppably, during the myriad comic sequences in the film.

Some days back, a special trial of the film was held for Karisma and Kareena Kapoor, who were joined by the latter’s friend, director Lovely Singh (Kya Love Story Hai).

On Monday evening, the entire cast and crew of Golmaal Returns celebrated Diwali with select media in Mumbai. The dress code for the event was Indian.

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Its browser was largely unchallenged in the early part of this decade, but since the arrival of the Firefox browser from Mozilla, Microsoft has accelerated development of new versions of Internet Explorer to stabilize its eroding market share and address the central role the Web has assumed in computing and daily life. As recently as 2004, Internet Explorer had more than 90 percent of the browser market.
In July, IE’s market share was 73 percent, Firefox had 19 percent and Apple’s Safari had 6 percent, according to Net Applications. The increased competition comes at a time when more people are using the Web for more sophisticated and sensitive activities, and demanding more from browsers. ”People are now more than ever participating in the Web,” said James Pratt, Internet Explorer product manager. “Everybody has their suite of sites and services that make the Web unique to them.”

Microsoft has added several features to the so-called beta 2 test release of IE8, which is available in English, German, Simplified Chinese and Japanese, and can be downloaded free by anyone at http://www.microsoft.com/ie8. A finished version of the browser is due by January, two years after the launch of IE7. IE8 includes new navigation features, tools to gather bits of content from around the Web and privacy enhancements that have caused concern among advertisers and Web publishers. To improve user privacy on the Internet, Microsoft is introducing “InPrivate Browsing.”

The feature allows a user to start a browsing session during which the history of sites they view, temporary Internet files and so-called cookies - small pieces of code added to a browser for tracking purposes - will not be recorded. ”An example might be you’re searching for a surprise gift for a loved one, you’re using a shared PC in an Internet cafe,” Pratt said. Some bloggers have nicknamed the feature “porn mode.” A complementary feature is “InPrivate Blocking.” It allows a user to see when a third-party content provider might be tracking their activities on the Web. Many sites include content, such as stock prices, advertisements or weather information, from third-parties.

“That’s the business model for the Web. That’s how the Web is funded today in many cases,” Pratt said. Those third parties, which commonly provide content to many different Web pages, can track and aggregate an individual’s browsing habits to better target advertising to them. The feature allows users to block that third-party content, and, by extension, the tracking. Online privacy advocates welcome the features, some of which are available in the Safari browser and as add-ons to Firefox.

Aegan movie review

Aegan is the latest release of ultimate star Ajith Kumar. The film released with quite a lot of expectation, but the scenario looks like the film has bombed at the box office. The film is based on Mein Hoon na, which starred Shah Rukh Khan and Sushmita Sen, but however the director has failed to recreate the magic of Mein Hoon na. The success of the movie in Hindi largely depended on the music and the choreography of the movie. Nayanthara appears in low neck blouses and makes sure that her fans are not disappointed. But overall the movie has failed to impress.

Storyline

Leave your logical mind at home, and don’t ask doubts regarding story and plotline because none exists! It is Diwali time, and if you want to have a crackling time at the movies, then Aegan is fun unlimited (till the interval).

The Story- Shiva (Ajit) is a dare devil cop, whose introduction scene is in Hong Kong, where he single handedly kills a mafia chief, and proves as his father the commissioner Karthik (Nassar) says- “He is a one-man army, who trusts only his gun”

Now he is on a different mission- he has to fob off the international criminal John Chinnapa (Suman), who is trying to kill his former aide Ram Prasad (Devan), who has turned police approver. Ram is in hiding somewhere in Ooty where his daughter Priya (Piaa) is studying in a co-ed college. Shiva’s new assignment is to go undercover as a student to the college to protect Priya and also a lead to her father’s whereabouts.

Shiva joins the college where you have a funny principal (Jayaram) and a peon (Sathyan) and host of students including Priya’s lover Narain (Navdeep), who turns out to be our hero’s foster brother!

The best scene in the film is when Ajit meets Nayan for the first time and the way he bursts out into his favourite song Unne Paartha Pinpu Naan…(Kathal Mannan) ! It is a really a scream and a genuine gut-buster.

There are few other outrageous over-the-top depiction of Tamil film stereotypes like Jayaram, Cochin Haneefa and Sriman’s comedy scenes. There is some kind of chemistry between Ajit and Nayan in some stupid moments, which make you chuckle. Raju Sundaram has concentrated only on these one-liners, the silver lining in the film.Her make-up

In Main Hoon Na Farah Khan made Shah Rukh Khan lampoon conventional notions of macho heroism, but in Aegan, Raju strictly adheres to Ajit’s larger than life image. There are four long drawn out, well choreographed fight scenes where the hero fights a dozen baddies and comes out unscathed.

The music of Yuvan is ok, thanks to the picturisation of Raju Sundaram. The camera of debutant Arjunjena is eye-catching. Ajit is at his best but looks plump and stiff in some scenes where he need to be relaxed and natural (The Billa hang-over?)

Nayanthara looks perfect as Mallika, a role that fits her like a glove. Her make-up and costumes, especially the chiffon sarees and halter-neck blouses, rock. Piaa is promising. Jayaram as Principal and Haneefa as Ajit’s side-kick are a riot. But the same cannot be said about Suman who looks like a caricature with a weird wig.

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diwali dhamka

With just a few days to reach Deepavali, it is still not clear as to which movies would hit the screens on the festive day and which are the movies that would step aside from the race.

Ajith starrer ‘Aega’n and director Hari’s ‘Seval’ are sure to be on the tracks for the festival. Aegan directed by Raju Sundaram, features Ajith and Nayantara in the lead roles. A remake of Shahrukh starrer ‘Main Hoon Na’, it has musical score by Yuvanshankar Raja.

Seval brings together Bharath, Poonam Bajwa and Simran. Directed by Hari, the movie has music by G V Prakash. A racy entertainer, quite typical of Hari, expectations are high on the film.

Guru En Aalu starring Madhavan, Mamta Mohandoss and Abbas is keen to run the race. A remake of Shahrukh’s Yess Boss, the movie is directed by Selvah and produced by KRG. Having been censored, it looks certain that ‘Guru En Aalu’ too would be ready to entertain the audience.

All eyes are now on Goutham menon’s ‘Varanam Aayiram’. Starring Surya in a dual role, the anticipated extravaganza is being produced by Aascar Ravochandran. Sharing screen space with Surya are Simran, Divya Spandhana and Samira Reddy. Music is by Harris Jeyaraj. Though sources close to the production house expressed confidence that the movie would hit the screens on Deepavali, a section of the industry men expressed apprehensions on its fate.

Last but not least, Samida, a movie made by an all new cast and crew is on a high confidence level and is ready to run the race with biggies.

India won the match

Trucks in the Punjab are famous for the one-line messages they carry. One of the typically earthy ones is, “Vekhi ja, par chedi na [Keep watching my truck, but don't fiddle around].” For four days and a bit in Mohali, India were the runaway truck that Australia could only watch and do nothing about.

It is a rare happening: When was the last time a team toyed around with Australia? When was the last time Australia were so dominated? One has to go back more than 10 years, to the same opposition and country, to Eden Gardens 1997-98. So long ago that only four players, on both sides, from that Test played in this match. Between Eden Gardens and Mohali, Australia played 117 matches, losing 15, without being so completely outplayed even once.

What would be more satisfactory for India, though, is that this win didn’t come on a crumbling dustbowl; home advantage counted for nought this time. It was a good batting track, looking like any Australian pitch, with a little less bounce, on the first day. Contrast this with Eden Gardens 1998, when India played with three spinners, and Sourav Ganguly opened the bowling. Over the last five days, though, and on the same pitch, the ball would lose all potency the moment it was handled by Australian bowlers.

To be fair to the Australians, this isn’t the same team that dominated the world over the last decade. Some of the best players in that side - Shane Warne, Adam Gilchrist, Glenn McGrath and Justin Langer - have gone. Also, they embarked on this tour - possibly their toughest assignment of recent times - without Andrew Symonds; discipline problem or not, it’s a mistake they may yet come to regret. Even so, it would take a special effort to put the boot in, simply because of their winning habit and the belief that they can pull themselves out of any kind of strife.

It’s perhaps fitting that this defeat has been inflicted by India, who have stood up to Australia, competed against them more consistently than any other team in the past decade. And India are the only team who constantly threaten to outskill them: once it was their mysterious spin bowling and imperious batting, here the biggest difference between the teams was the quality of the pace bowling.

While Australia struggled for any disconcerting movement, the Indian bowlers got prodigious swing, both conventional and reverse. A TV split-screen visual of the six-over-old ball being used by both the teams told a story. While the one Australia used was scuffed up all over, the one India used had two markedly different sides, shiny and rough. That meant the ball started reversing as early as in the ninth over at times, a sensational phenomenon. And since it’s still hard and new that early, as MS Dhoni suggested, it was all the more difficult to face. “The ball [from Ishant Sharma] that got me would get me 95 times out of 100,” Ricky Ponting confessed.

The batsmen and the spinners did their job too. Gautam Gambhir and Virender Sehwag gave India two fiery starts, putting Australia on the back foot right away. The middle order revived them after a brief blip. Amit Mishra’s debut was phenomenal, a throwback to the old days of classical legspin bowling. And Harbhajan Singh fast-tracked Australia to their demise in the second innings.

Right from the toss, India did little wrong. The one potentially distracting period was when Tendulkar moved towards his record but India regrouped well. They were aggressive throughout, and there wasn’t a single player in the side they needed to hide. You could say they had nine potential Man-of-the-Match winners, something we rarely see with the Indian team. Perth, earlier this year, was a team performance, but not nearly as destructive.

Two moments summed up the match for India and Australia. One of them came early on the second day. India had contrived to keep Australia in the game on day one, even though the latter chased leather throughout the day. At 326 for 6, India were still capable of being bundled out for a below-par total. In walked Dhoni, and he got a bouncer first-up. He hooked that for four, then hit another for a six, and “the most defensive side in a long time” was being taken to the cleaners.

Then, on the fourth morning, India played Australia at their own game, applying ruthlessness and urgency - and clarity of thought - in their approach to setting the target, and giving themselves close to 130 overs to bowl out a side low on confidence. And when Matthew Hayden tried to intimidate the bowlers, they didn’t take a step back. The inevitable soon happened and, as it usually happens in India, it happened too fast once it started.

Naturally Dhoni was pleased with his team’s effort. “I’ve never seen anything like that,” he said. “Especially at one time in the first innings, they were 22 from 13 overs. I said to Rahul [Dravid], ‘Look at the board, we won’t see that again.’”

The way this Indian team is playing, don’t bet on it.

Source : CNN IBN

sachin makes history

The stifling suspense and the prolonged wait finally came to an end as Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar on Friday (October 17) emerged as the highest run-accumulator in Test cricket’s history, staking a legitimate claim as the best batsman cricket has known since Don Bradman, both aesthetically and statistically.

After his mission incomplete in Bangalore, Tendulkar redeemed himself in Mohali in his 152nd Test and West Indian legend Brian Lara was toppled from the highest Test run-accumulator’s pedestal. Test debutant Peter Siddle sent down the first ball of the post-tea session. Tendulkar glided it to third man for three runs to surpass Lara’s record of 11,953 runs and raise the bar even higher for posterity.

Relieved to have achieved the milestone that eluded him in Bangalore, an overwhelmed Tendulkar took the helmet off and looked upwards in a silent prayer and suddenly all the hostility surrounding the Indo-Australian Test series evaporated as Ricky Ponting and his men came to shake hands with him.

Sourav Ganguly walked down from the non-striker’s end, patting him on the achievement and firecrackers went off around the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium in a pre-Diwali celebration to mark the golden moment in the history of Indian cricket.

Tendulkar arrived here with 11,939 runs against his name from 151 Tests, averaging 54.02 hitting 39 centuries in the process. His ODI record put together– he tops the run-accumulator’s chart there too with 16,361 runs — Tendulkar has scored more than 25,000 international runs with the help of a mind boggling (42+39) 81 centuries and 138 half-centuries.

And all those runs flowed from the blade of someone who, rather reluctantly, swapped leather-flinging with willow-wielding after a blunt Dennis Lillee told the 12-year-old aspiring fast bowler in a Chennai camp that he had no hopes as a pacer. Or probably the blame actually lies with Waqar Younis.

Tendulkar was hit on the mouth by Waqar in his debut Test series in Pakistan with dripping blood drenching the shirt of the cuddly teen with curly hair. Nineteen long years since the incident and bowlers around the world continue to bleed even to this day for a folly of one of their predecessors. Worse, the torment is far from over.

Almost as a matter of revenge, Tendulkar lorded over the bowlers since that 1989 series, eclipsing virtually every batting record and piling on mountain of runs and setting new benchmarks for batsmanship in the process.

Impeccable technique, perfect temperament and unflinching commitment to his craft have made Tendulkar a paragon of all batting virtues and his single-minded determination and an incredible ability to insulate himself from anything unwarranted have only added to his aura.

With no real chink in his batting armour, bowling to him is often a trauma for the bowlers, although Shane Warne preferred to call it nightmare. Equipped with every shot in the book and endowed with the flair to blend routine with recherché, Tendulkar grew in stature with ever game before eventually attaining cult status. Don Bradman anointed him as his heir and euphoric Indians fans deified him.

He did burn his fingers with captaincy before renouncing it but the aura and idolatry remained intact. Unlike others, his name is not debated in selection meetings. They just enquire about his fitness. Loudmouth opponents like Australia refrain from sledging him, not as a favour but out of fear as it often brings out the best in Tendulkar. Bowlers fancy his scalp and whenever hit for a boundary, considers it comeuppance.

For his legion of fans, Tendulkar has been nothing sort of a messiah. Every time he walked out in the middle and took guard, he was expected to excel, regardless of opposition, condition and everything else. And on most occasions, Tendulkar did just that and his cult grew.

His impeccable demeanour on and off the field and a childish love for the game have endeared Tendulkar to all, making him a genuine ambassador of the game. With this new feather added to his already well-decorated cap, Tendulkar is now in a league of his own.

List of world’s top Test cricket batsmen after Sachin Tendulkar broke Brian Lara’s record to become the leading run scorer today (Name, country, Tests, runs, centuries):

Sachin Tendulkar (IND) 152* 11,955 39
Brian Lara (WIS) 131 11,953 34
Allan Border (AUS) 156 11,174 27
Steve Waugh (AUS) 168 10,927 32
Rahul Dravid (IND) 127* 10,341 25
Ricky Ponting (AUS) 121* 10,239 36
Sunil Gavaskar (IND) 125 10,122 34.

Besides Tendulkar, only Rahul Dravid and Ricky Ponting are the active cricketers in the list while Brian Lara, Allan Border, Steve Waugh and Sunil Gavaskar have already retired.

dead space game review

To paraphrase Stephen King, if you find you cannot horrify, you go for the gross-out. EA’s third-person “survival horror” game Dead Space (for PC, Xbox 360, and PS3) frequently horrifies and grosses out. It’s also ironically produced — if we’re to believe Wikipedia and MobyGames – by a guy who paints ”fantastic sunsets, huge redwoods, snowy mountains and colorful seascapes.” Let’s just say there are no sunsets, redwoods, mountains, or seascapes in Dead Space, though there are buckets of blood, mangled body parts, mangled body parts protruding from bodies in ways you’ve perhaps never imagined, and imaginative ways to excise said parts from the skittering, screeching, spine-tingling trunks of creatures you wouldn’t want to meet in broad daylight, much less on a derelict space freighter.

Does it matter that you’re tethered to a story that trots out Gaming’s Top 100 Tropes like it’s teaching a freshmen level seminar? Not really. You’re here for one purpose: to walk into rooms, have something pop out and go boo, fumble to carve the freakishly nimble mess of flesh into giblets before it eats your face off, then do it again times 11 or 12 hours of Space Hulk meets John Carpenter’s The Thing. Did I say “carve”? Dead Space takes the counterintuitive and tactically intriguing tack that shooting off limbs instead of central body parts is how you kill enemies faster.Quick design-y sidenote: Throughout the game, Isaac Clarke doesn’t say a word, he just grunts and gasps apprehensively. We’re only afforded a glimpse of his face at the outset (and, I’m told, the ending). The trouble with this fairly common approach is that it makes you feel like a child at the outset. People wheel and deal around you, laugh or joke, talk to or tease you, but all you can do is sit or stand in mute repose. As soon as you’ve boarded the space freighter, you pop on a full-masked helmet, completing the psychological distancing trick that’s typically employed to imply that you’re the hero, not the third-person avatar you’re starting at on screen. Maybe it’s that you can see Isaac’s avatar as you play here (instead of just a pair of hands, or “floating gun”). Granted it’s a subtle, nitpicky thing, and maybe you won’t care or even notice, but for some reason Isaac’s uncanny silence drew my attention in Dead Space, and made me wish he had more than merely a physical role to play.

Quick tech-y sidenote: If you’re thinking about running the PC version and you’re wondering how this thing performs, try “amazingly.” I’ve got it running at the highest all around detail settings in Boot Camp mode on a 2.4GHz Macbook Pro with 2GB RAM and a measly NVIDIA 8600M GT w/256MB VRAM and it’s smooth as glass while somehow managing to look every bit like something that’d run on dual SLI GPUs in a monster rig.

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