Hindi has emerged as the largest Indian language spoken in the US, with some 650,000 people speaking it. Nearly 400,000 US residents speak Urdu, and Gujarati is spoken by more than 370,000 people.
While Bengali and Punjabi are spoken by more than 250,000 people each, the US Census Bureau says Marathi is spoken by more than 73,000 people, Oriya (5,000), Assamese (1,300) and Kashmiri by about 1,700 people. It has even listed Bihari as a language spoken by nearly 600 people, Rajasthani by 700 and Sindhi by nearly 9,000.
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- According to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), in 2014, the country witnessed 33,981 murders and 3,332 incidents of culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
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- A new survey, based on interviews of 15,000- odd teens between 13 and 19 from 20 cities has revealed that the average age of first sexual contact for boys was 13.72 years and 14.09 years for....
