Add a NEWS entry for the Indian table upgrade

NEWS

@@ -6,14 +6,31 @@ liblouis NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.  	-*- org -*-
 
 ** Bug fixes
 - Fixed bug to prevent removal of \xffff between largesign rules. This
-  solves a LibLouisUTDML bug where \xffff is used as a segment delimiter.
-_ Fixed a bug in backtranslation, when a letsign was encountered, the
+  solves a LibLouisUTDML bug where \xffff is used as a segment
+  delimiter.
+- Fixed a bug in back translation, when a letsign was encountered, the
   letsign was being applied beyond the element it applied to.
 
 ** Braille table improvements
 - Fix for Norwegian where letsign is affecting some extra characters
   thanks to Lars Bjørndal
 - Much improved hyphenation for Norwegian thanks to Lars Bjørndal
+- Major improvements to Indian tables thanks to Dipendra Manocha,
+  Mesar Hameed, Dinesh Kaushall and Sreeja Parameswaran:
+  - Corrected opcodes for letters, punctuation marks, digits, signs
+    etc.
+  - Updated braille codes according to prescribed braille codes for
+    each Unicode character by the Braille Council of India for all
+    Indian languages.
+  - defined rules for dealing with Nukhta character in Hindi table
+  - defined rule to insert dot-1 between consonant followed by full
+    vowel character in all Indian Languages
+  - defined rules for shifting of halant character before the
+    consonant. This character is placed after the consonant in normal
+    typing but need to be before the consonant in braille. This rule
+    is applicable for all Indian languages.
+  - defined rules for two conjunct characters "ksha and gya" used in
+    all Indian Languages for which there are specific codes in Braille
 
 * Noteworthy changes in release 2.5.4 (2014-3-3)
 This release contains nine months worth of braille table improvements