Cuban emigré Gilberto Zaldivar has died at the age of 75 in New York. After leaving Cuba in 1961 over disagreements with the direction the Cuban Revolution took, he started a business career in accounting. In Cuba, he had been active in the Teatro Arlequin and eventually left Diners Club in New York to pursue […]
Syria’s Language Move Irks Businesses
Shop owners say requirement for Arabic signs called costly, unfair and pointless. By an IWPR-trained reporter (SB No. 71, 10-Aug-09) Twelve years after opening an electronics shop in Damascus, Khaled has been forced to change its name. In place of Roussil, a Kurdish word which means sun disc, he was made to pick an Arabic […]
J & K Academy of Art, Culture and Languages Awarded 40 Theatre Artists of Kashmir Valley
Srinagar, May 28 – More than 40 prominent artists of Kashmir valley on Thursday awarded by Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture and Languages for their outstanding performance in Anual “Kashmir Drama Festival” held in Srinagar during 2009. Prominent Theatrist and Member Legislative Council Vijay Bakya was Chief Guest on the […]
TV Stations Struggle With Language Rules
Television stations in southern Kyrgyzstan are finding it hard to comply with rules requiring them to broadcast 50 per cent of their material in Kyrgyz. The requirement was brought in mainly to restrict the amount of Russian-language programmes broadcast in Kyrgyzstan and boost use of the titular nation’s language. When it was introduced in media […]
Adbee Markaz warns against anti-kashmiri language tirade
Adbee Markaz Kamraz (AMK) has taken strong exception to a sinister campaign launched by some elements against the popularization of Kashmiri language in the state at official level. In a statement AMK General Secretary Syed Shujaat Bukhari has said that while the organization believes in promotion of all regional languages in accordance with […]
IPL matches telecast in Multiplexes, Commentary in Local languages
India- Mumbai: Indian Premier League (IPL) Second session Twenty20 Tournament cricket matches will be telecast live at multiplexes in the country. On Tuesday Lalit Modi the IPL chairman and commissioner announcing this for tendering for the telecast rights at multiplexes is in the process. Modi said "It is an ongoing process and we have invited […]
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