Literary & Journalistic Style

Headlines drop articles and often use the present — Hindi drops the verb entirely instead

French news headlines conventionally use the présent even for events that already happened, for a sense of immediacy — Le président annonce une réforme, rather than the full a annoncé. Hindi solves the same brevity problem a different way: it typically nominalizes the whole headline and drops the verb entirely, राष्ट्रपति की सुधार की घोषणा ('the president's announcement of a reform'), relying on the nominalization habit from earlier in this course rather than a tense shift. So while both languages compress a headline compared to the full sentence, the specific mechanism differs — French shifts tense, Hindi drops the verb — and you shouldn't expect Hindi's nominalized-headline habit to predict French's present-tense one.