Oxford declares 'Samvidhaan' the Hindi word of 2019, says it reflects ethos, mood of the yearThe word ‘Samvidhaan' first received widespread attention in August 2019.
5 Indian students qualify for Oxford Big Read Asia contestThe winners from India are B R Nimeesha (from Madurai), Ananya Sheorey, Saara Sen, Neha Chhajed and Sama S Jahagirdar (all from Nagpur), a ...
From 'Becoming' by Michelle Obama to Shashi Tharoor's 'Why I am a Hindu', books that gave meaning to 2018Non-fiction books emerged as the most popular literary category in 2018.
In a first, Oxford launches Hindi word of the yearThe Hindi word of the year will be a word or expression that has attracted a great deal of interest this year.
'Anna', 'achcha', and 70 other Indian words make it to the Oxford DictionaryMost of the Indian words added to the dictionary pertain to relationships, culture and food.
Oxford University Press launches compact English - English Assamese DictionaryThe Oxford Compact English-English Assamese Dictionary is a addition to OUP’s 23 (twenty-three) existing bilingual dictionaries in Indian L...
Amazon to take down pirated copies of Economic Survey if GoI complainsUnless there is a flag on the seller about a fraud or abuse by the copyright owner, online marketplaces don't delist products.
Publishers go the startup way digitising content, investing in education-technology companiesFrom digitising their content to investing in ed-tech startups, these players want to reach their audience in an all-new tech-savvy avatar.
V Sivaramakrishnan named new MD of Oxford University Press IndiaSivaramakrishnan will join OUP India from Manipal Global Education Services, a leading privately-owned service provider to the higher educa...
Digital solution for students Oxford Achiever launchedThere are more digital products and 'app' launches on the anvil soon, including the OUP dictionary and atlas 'app'.
Oxford University Press to soon launch 3 digital platform programmesOxford University Press is launching this year three major programmes, mostly for school children in India, by using the digital platform.
It's hard to imagine a world where there is no print: Nigel PortwoodOxford dictionaries appear on many technology devices that you see such as Kindle, Apple computers and iPads. So they need not be in printe...
Print on demand, digital platform new Oxford schemes in IndiaIt has initiated a new business plan called Global Academic India which is an organisational structure for OUP's academic publishing in Ind...
Keep 'pigs', 'pork' out of textbooks, Oxford University Press tells writersOxford University Press has asked its textbook writers to keep out all references to pigs to avoid offending Jews and Muslims.
Our fear of freedom: Doniger's is just the latest case of courts, publishers, politicians failing to protect artistic rightsOne would have expected, and hoped, that they would have appealed in a higher court to have the freedom of expression of their esteemed aut...
- Oxford University Press completes 100 years in India
Oxford University Press to celebrate by re-issuing classics, and launching major new centenary year publishing initiatives.
- Fiction not part of Indian BPO story
Publishing outsourcing, growing at 50%, is limited to science & tech and medical books.