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Indian Government Pushes Email Providers to Offer Services in Local Languages

The Indian government is advocating for consumer email providers including Google and Microsoft to offer email services in a number of local languages beginning with Hindi. The government met with service providers last month and asked for them to offer services that would enable users to sign up for email addresses in their local languages throughout the country. While the country has 22 official languages, experts estimate that more than 150 different languages are spoken around the country.

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