Five NRIs have been honoured in London for promoting Hindi in the UK on the occasion of 'Hindi Diwas' organised by the International Hindi Society.

Lord Gulam Noon, Chairman of the Noon Products and Chief Guest on the occasion, presented the award to Deepak Dogra, Managing Editor of Maya newspaper, and four others last night.

Others are C B Patel, Editor/Publisher of the bi-lingual English and Gujarati weekly Asian Voice, Dhruv Gadvi of Zee TV, Editor/Publisher of Pardes Weekly Jaskaran Singh and Patron of the International Hindi Society Rajendra Joshi.

he ninth World Hindi Conference is going to be held in Johannesburg from the 22nd to 24th of this month. The Ministry of External Affairs with the support of Hindi Shiksha Sangh, South Africa, is organising the Conference. This information was given by the spokesman of MEA in New Delhi. The ninth World Hindi Conference will deliberate on a series of traditional and contemporary themes related to both classical and modern aspects of Hindi. The theme of the conference this year will be, "Bhasha ki Asmita aur Hindi ka Vaishvik Sandarbh". The first World Hindi Conference was held in 1975 in Nagpur. Since then, eight world conferences have been held in different countries. AIR Correspondent adds, this would be the first world Hindi conference to be organised in a country of African continent.

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