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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Concerns that technology would fail to do justice to the semantics and context are the biggest deterrents to its adoption. The concerns are legitimate.
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.
At 2nd such summit in Punjab for top investors organised by AAP since it came to power in Punjab, Lakshmi Mittal announced his Bathinda refinery has increased production of LPG by 3,000 tonnes/day.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Trump has ushered in the age of humiliation. His method is to push around America’s friends rudely and publicly. He knows none of them can afford to fight back.
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