Govt releases draft guidelines to make railways more user-friendly for people with disabilitiesThe draft includes the development of a dedicated mobile app and a one-click template for people with disabilities displaying all the infor...
30 Dec, 2023, 01.50 PM IST
Railways to get uniform signages at stations; Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw releases booklet on projectThe Indian Railways, which is redeveloping 1,275 stations across India under the 'Amrit Bharat Stations Scheme', will seek to have uniform ...
15 May, 2023, 06.18 PM IST
US shocker: 18-year-old killed after he reacts to Facebook post with laughing emojiIn a shocking turn of events between young adults, an 18-year-old boy was shot dead and a woman was injured after a social media argument.
06 May, 2023, 08.42 PM IST
World Emoji Day 2022: A look at how emoticons changed the way people communicateThe day was conceptualised by Jeremy Burge who is also known as an emoji historian and founder of Emojipedia.
17 Jul, 2022, 09.40 AM IST
Do mind your language, and of others tooHe summed up his mistrust of the verbal in the famous conclusion to his 1921 magnum opus, Tractatus Logico Philosophicus, 'Whereof we canno...
26 Jun, 2022, 12.44 AM IST
The danger of saying it with emojisWith 17 million emojis being exchanged daily now just on Twitter, and many more millions elsewhere, the face of communication is clearly ch...
13 May, 2015, 06.47 AM IST
- Cigarette, bidi cos win a year’s reprieve on warnings
The government on Tuesday decided to retain the existing pictorial warnings on cigarette and bidi packages for one more year.
08 Dec, 2010, 06.53 AM IST
- Cabinet to decide on tobacco industry request on pic warning
There are two pictorial warnings - scorpion and damaged lungs, while a new one -- a cancer stricken mouth, was to be depicted from December...
03 Dec, 2010, 05.09 PM IST
- Are pesticides turning into poison spray?
Farmers do not have basic knowledge of usage of pesticides, a survey by the National Institute of Advanced Studies found.
17 Sep, 2010, 05.46 AM IST