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Breaking the language barrier: Inside IITs’ push for inclusivity with AI, mother tongue-based learning

Several IITs are taking steps to promote learning in regional languages after Education Minister's suggestion at IIT Council meeting in August, and in line with NEP 2020.

English ‘disappearing’ from England is a misplaced fear. The nation was always multilingual

Old English, the earliest ancestor of the modern English language, was a relative newcomer to Britain. Its speakers, the Anglo-Saxons, came from different regions.

Outrage against Loreto College’s admission notice should be about exclusion not English

A lot of today’s Bengali versus English medium acrimony dates back to the Jyoti Basu-led Communist government’s language policy that banned teaching of English till class 5.

Most low-income households using edtech for maths & English, survey by non-profit says

Survey by Central Square Foundation, an education non-profit, titled ‘BaSE: Bharat Survey for EdTech’. It was conducted from November 2022 to January 2023 in 6 states.

Skyrocketing popularity of K-dramas spurring more Indians to learn Korean, says Duolingo

Korean is third most learnt language on Duolingo app in Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra & West Bengal. English & Hindi claim top spots as the most popular languages, says report.

AI translation no final solution for non-English researchers. Tech still needs human touch

Concerns that technology would fail to do justice to the semantics and context are the biggest deterrents to its adoption. The concerns are legitimate.

I hope nobody took Mohan Bhagwat seriously when he said English’s importance is a myth

In India, proficiency in English opened many doors for me—and not just career-wise. It gave me a bigger buffet to choose from.

The IAS must learn the ABC of good English. This govt response to NYT article tells us why

An ex-director of the National Academy of Administration once told me that the standard of English among IAS probationers was so low, he had to take special classes.

Invoking Macaulay’s ghost once again & how Uddhav dealt with an uninvited guest

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Translations in Indian languages gaining momentum. But we lack access to regional non-fiction

Indians have natural 'translation consciousness.' But there is a gap in accessing non-fiction from regional languages.

On Camera

Age-gap romances are tricky in India. Here’s how Bollywood navigates them

Cheeni Kum challenged many conventions. It didn’t shy away from addressing concerns of a man in his sixties, from ‘keeping up’ with his much younger partner.

Consumer Price Index gets up to date. Airfare, OTT plans, e-commerce prices in new basket—MoSPI secy

New CPI series will take 2024 as base year, will provide more accurate measure of inflation, spending on digital services. Expected to enhance representation and reliability, says Saurabh Garg.

Joint production, closer ties, emerging tech: The foundation of new defence pact between India & US

The agreement, signed after meeting between Rajnath and US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on sidelines of ADMM-Plus in Kuala Lumpur, aims to deepen bilateral ties in the critical sector.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.