‘Are they NRI kids?’: Viral video of adorable Mizo girls speaking English in western accent stuns the internetA viral Instagram reel by @northeast7_sisters featuring young Mizo girls speaking fluent English in a Western accent has captivated social ...
30 Apr, 2025, 09.00 PM 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
Edtech firm Bambinos aims Rs 100 crore in annual recurring revenue in 2025The company in the edtech landscape with its AI-driven advanced teaching pedagogy, is an online English tutoring platform for kids between ...
23 Jan, 2025, 05.52 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
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
Surreal: When Vivekananda scored 47, 46 & 57 % in English language exams!'The Modern Monk' takes a look into the life of one of the most important figures in the modern imagination of India.
08 Jan, 2017, 01.27 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
- Hindi should be taught in all schools: Sibal
Union Minister Kapil Sibal on Monday strongly batted for teaching Hindi in all schools, saying fluency in the national language will help i...
24 Aug, 2009, 05.37 PM 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
- Demand for language skills grows in BPO space
Riding on the growing desi market, BPOs like HTMT, Firstsource and Infovision are aggressively recruiting people with regional language ski...
01 Jan, 2008, 03.23 AM IST
- Wipro BPO using MeritTrac for hiring
MeritTrac to aid in mass recruitment drives over telephonic delivery platform at Wipro BPO.
06 Aug, 2007, 01.46 AM IST