Mind your language: How vernacular content will enhance technology adoption for small businessesAs technology moves to India’s hinterland, vernacular content will have a large role to play. For tech companies, it means adapting to the ...
17 Dec, 2021, 11.23 AM IST
Job market in India: 57% prefer searching for jobs in regional languagesData from apna.co, a networking platform in India, shows that more than 57% of its users prefer a vernacular language to search for opportu...
02 Dec, 2021, 01.58 PM IST
Supreme Court refuses to interfere with Haryana law making Hindi as official language of lower courts"There is nothing wrong in Hindi as the official language of subordinate courts in some states. Even, during the British Rule, the recordin...
08 Jun, 2020, 06.46 PM IST
Tongue twist: Now, unicorns go vernacular for Bharat usersUnicorns such as Byju’s, Policybazaar among others support anywhere between two & 12 regional languages.
16 Jun, 2019, 09.00 PM IST
How small ecommerce firms are trying to access local towns and citiesCompanies are looking to digitally recreate the experience of bargaining with vendors local languages.
20 Jul, 2018, 06.10 PM IST
NEET question paper to be same for all languages: Prakash JavadekarBengal and Tamil Nadu had opposed the proposal, citing central over-reach in education, which is a state subject.
23 Jul, 2017, 12.13 PM IST
CBSE moves Supreme Court for stay of order against publication of NEET resultsThe Madras high court had on May 24 granted a stay on the publication of NEET results alleging that a uniform question paper was not given ...
09 Jun, 2017, 06.54 PM IST
Kstart invests in Vernacular.aiThe startup, which was founded by three IIT Roorkee graduates- Sourabh Gupta, Akshay Deshraj and Manoj Sarda, is presently working on multi...
15 May, 2017, 05.38 PM IST
Attempts to depose English subject our universities to dangerous social engineeringThat Hindi and other non-English Indian languages have historically come with baggage that dragged them down is undeniable.
19 Apr, 2017, 12.07 PM IST
SwiftKey ties up with Karbonn, Lava, Celkon, Obi Mobiles, Zen and others to take on SwypeThe SwiftKey app accommodates 22 vernacular languages, including Hindi, Assamese, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu and Malayalam.
16 Jul, 2015, 11.23 AM IST
5% of FMCG sales to be online by 2020: Google-Bain surveyWith more and more people surfing online for FMCG products, the Internet would influence over a third of total sales in the sector by 2020,...
10 Feb, 2015, 08.09 PM IST
Tweets & Facebook posts in Hindi, Marathi, Tamil get more responses than those in EnglishSeveral large and small advertisers including Pepsi-Co, Bharti Airtel say use of regional languages in social media campaigns give them muc...
24 Dec, 2014, 10.02 AM IST
RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan keeps promise, speaks in Hindi at RBI functionRajan was speaking at the RBI headquarters while giving away the 'Rajbhasha Shield' awards for 2012-13 to the banking sector stakeholders t...
13 Nov, 2014, 10.47 PM IST
Modi as PM: 'Hindi-medium type' (HMT) taking over the English-speaking types (ESTs) in IndiaThe long-derided ‘Hindi-medium types’ are reshaping our culture and reordering the power structure. Modi is a potent symbol of that change.
17 May, 2014, 12.38 PM IST
- Govt to increase vernacular grip on Net
In a fresh move to Indianise the web, the government is planning to have vernacular domain names.
16 Apr, 2007, 01.35 AM IST
- Guruji.com launches desi search
Guruji.com, India's first search engine has announced the launch of Indian language search.
09 Mar, 2007, 12.55 PM IST
- Vernacular search engine launched
A new speciality vernacular search engine on India--Bhramara -- offering web search interfaces in Kannada and Hindi besides English, has be...
23 Oct, 2006, 02.00 PM IST