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  Punjabi is now fourth most spoken language in Canada: Report

  World | August 19, 2022 13:05 IST

  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.

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  Punjabi language test mandatory for candidates applying for Group C, D posts: CM Mann

  Education | May 26, 2022 10:23 IST

  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.

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  Hold engineering entrance exam JEE in Punjabi too: Punjab minister

  Education | December 01, 2019 18:34 IST

  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.

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  Pakistani school chain bans ‘Punjabi’, terms it ‘foul’, faces flak on Twitter

  World | October 17, 2016 15:11 IST

  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.

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  Writers step up protest, 6 more return Akademi award

  India | October 12, 2015 7:38 IST

  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

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  Punjabi, Bengali, Gujarati among top 10 languages in Britain

  World | May 22, 2014 8:15 IST

  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