Be cool and stay cool in Indian summers - Desi styleIndia continues to wear Western suits as workwear, a colonial imposition. European traders brought these clothes, but local cotton garments...
04 Apr, 2026, 12.33 AM IST
How Gen Z’s global mobility aspirations are reshaping English proficiency testing and study-abroad strategiesGen Z's global academic aspirations are driving a seismic shift in English proficiency testing. TOEFL iBT's enhanced adaptive format now mi...
25 Mar, 2026, 02.59 PM IST
How Devnagri AI is helping MSMEs overcome their dependency on English to grow their businessesOnce you break the English dependency, MSMEs start operating like digital-native enterprises, says Nakul Kundra (NK), Co-founder, Devnagri ...
15 Oct, 2025, 10.30 AM IST
Mind your (English) language!Amidst debates over Hindi's imposition, English in India faces a curious situation. Recent political squabbles highlight contrasting views ...
11 Apr, 2025, 11.53 PM IST
Skirmish over English: Loreto College in Kolkata revokes age-old admission policy that debarred students from vernacular mediums, issues apologyEarlier, the woman’s college, affiliated with the University of Calcutta had debarred students hailing from vernacular schools in its first...
05 Jul, 2023, 03.38 PM IST
IT billionaire says employees of his company don't need to be fluent in English for most jobsSridhar Vembu, the billionaire founder of Zoho was replying to a post from Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. "We can only make prog...
06 Apr, 2023, 01.06 PM IST
Watch: A boy doing gully cricket commentary in fluent SanskritIf you enjoy good cricket commentary, you will surely appreciate this amateur viral video. In the video a group of teens can be seen playin...
03 Oct, 2022, 04.58 PM IST
Boost English, says draft education policyThe dominance of English, the draft NEP 2019 says, has resulted in marginalisation of large sections of society based on language.
06 Jun, 2019, 11.24 AM IST
Are drunks and cops best judges of English?The Delhi Police’s revelation that a man was allegedly beaten up by five inebriated louts for speaking to his friend in “fluent English” is...
12 Sep, 2017, 11.05 PM IST
- British Council launches virtual English courses in Bengaluru
After a successful run in Pune, British Council launched its blended learning programme ‘myEnglish’ in Bengaluru . The nine-week training m...
14 Jan, 2016, 09.04 PM IST
How English-speaking skills are keeping Indian engineers away from their dream jobsA study has found that an overwhelming 97 per cent of engineers in the country cannot speak English, required for jobs in corporate sales a...
07 Aug, 2015, 05.11 AM IST
- Miscommunication will end when English, other languages coalesce
Circa 2512 will there still be as many major languages and countless smaller ones or will everyone communicate and converse.
27 Jul, 2012, 05.28 AM IST
- Only 57% engineers can write grammatically correct English sentences: Aspiring Minds' report
More than half of all engineers (52%) would not be fluent in a majority of words that are used with regular frequency at the workplace
24 Jul, 2012, 01.26 PM IST
- Vietnamese would certainly be more at ease learning English from Indians
While English is given an exalted status reluctantly by our political class no matter how much the average Indian covets fluency in it, the...
03 Apr, 2012, 02.19 AM IST
- Communication still has to choose between cliches and jargon
Of course, the best practice would be to express oneself using original prose in simple English, shorn of both cliches and jargon.
30 Jan, 2012, 01.19 AM IST
- NIIT acquires Evolv Management
NIIT has acquired controlling interest in Evolv Management Services, a leading provider of English language and communications training bas...
15 Jan, 2008, 05.23 PM IST
- Veta to start operations in Singapore by year end
Veta, an English training academy, would start its operations in Singapore by this year end.
04 Oct, 2007, 02.40 PM IST