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Should we swear by our swear words?A Hindi swear word has entered the global lexicon, highlighted by its recent use by a Georgetown University professor while discussing the ...- Thomas E. Kurtz, creator of BASIC computer language, dies at 96Thomas E. Kurtz, co-pioneer of the BASIC programming language, dies at 96. In the 1960s, he and John Kemeny developed BASIC and the Dartmou...
- Pema Khandu advocates Hindi as lingua franca in Arunachal PradeshArunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu announced that the state has adopted Hindi as its lingua franca and will establish a Kendriya ...
- New criminal laws: The shift in balance of power towards the police is troublingDo the laws that replace IPC, CrPC and the Evidence Act work to enhance accountability of the state to the people? On the contrary, the new...
- Do day raylytawk laik dat in Nu Yawk City?Nu Yawk is famous for its iconic street-side snack, the haat dawg, which is not, as the name suggests, a canine-based comestible but a fran...
- Skilled, educated and washing dishes: How Italy squanders migrant talentAbhishek, who declined to give his surname, said he was rejected for a string of jobs because his rudimentary Italian was deemed inadequate...
- Indians' innate skills and values can be harnessed to our advantageFrom living in large joint families and making ends meet, to struggling to get an admission in a good school or college, and getting a stab...
- Hindi is already a lingua francaFor higher education and global communication, English remains the oyster. Its monopoly as a social status tool diminishing, it is now more...
- Wuhan was a magnet for medical aspirants from IndiaThe epicentre of coronavirus is now host to medical aspirants from around the world, including India
- Goa has been part of my universe since I was born: Portugal PMClearly nostalgic about his Goan roots, Costa emphasized on his role as a Goanorigin head of state in the EU.
- Languages create barrier in scientific knowledge transferLondon, Dec 30 (IANS) Despite the assumption that English is the lingua franca of global science, one-third of new conservation science doc...
- Delhi University Hindi teachers unite! You’ve nothing to lose but your jobsA petition demanding that Hindi be returned as a compulsory language in DU colleges has been signed by more than 100 teachers and sent to t...
- Helion invests Rs 25 crore in Enterprise Mobility Co RapidValueHelion Venture Partners will use the funds to expand in the US and Europe, as increasingly employees use mobile devices for work.
- Helion invests Rs 25 crore in enterprise mobility co RapidValueThe $605 mn ( Rs 3,640-crore) venture fund is investing about Rs 25 crore in enterprise mobility company RapidValue, which helps companies ...
- CommonFloor raises Rs 64 crore from Tiger Global and Accel PartnersLast July, the Bangalore-based company had raised about $7.5 million (over Rs 45 crore) from the same investors.
- Helion Venture invests in startup LinguaNextLinguaNext will use the funds to expand in international markets, hire talent and scale up its mobile platform.
- Miscommunication will end when English, other languages coalesceCirca 2512 will there still be as many major languages and countless smaller ones or will everyone communicate and converse.
- US colleges learn business mantra from Indian gurus like Soumitra Dutta, Pradeep K Khosla and Dipak C JainA reason behind this success is a three-letter word - IIT. Many of the stars at management schools in US come from the IIT.
- Towards a new word order: Stop the jargon-autNearly every country, whatever its lingua franca, is plagued by the incomprehensible prose that administrators favour.
- Using religion to sell scienceLeon Lederman said it made perfect sense to invoke the Almighty while re-naming the Higgs particle, because the mechanism that supposedly b...
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