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Teach Sanskrit in schools, make English optional, says RSS-linked body

Samskrita Bharati, founded by RSS members in the 1980s, wants this change included in the New Education Policy.

Cheap Chinese medical degrees may no longer be an easy option for Indian students

China's medical universities have been a strong draw for Indian students for years with their cheap courses and low threshold for admission scores.

New IRS data says 72% of Indians now have LPG stoves, bolsters Modi govt claim

The latest Indian Readership Survey claims a 3 per cent increase since 2017 in the share of population that can read and understand English.

Freda Bedi, the ‘English girl married to a Punjabi’, who joined India’s freedom struggle

Andrew Whitehead writes about the revolutionary Freda Bedi, who was jailed for supporting the Indian national cause over Britain’s and later became a Buddhist nun.

Brexit will not necessarily impact the popularity of English language

English is spoken by some 1.7 billion people. That has long ensured that US and UK voices are heard louder than any others.

Even an Indian ‘Anglophile’ can see that Britain must get used to being a small country

The British can blame no one but themselves. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a small country that is about to...

Is the English language too powerful?

A systematic data-driven analysis showed that English is most powerful. It is the world’s lingua franca.

Govt may revert to just English for NEET, instead of regional languages

The latest data has found only 8% of over 13 lakh aspirants wrote the medical entrance exam in regional languages, with a vast majority using English.

Hindi is not dead. Long live English!

About 46 per cent of Indian rural teens can now understand simple English, and this triumph of the language needs to be welcomed.

Turning Lohiaji on his head

Breaking from party's past, Akhilesh Yadav is talking about the future and taking on Mayawati's formidable machinery.

On Camera

SRK is more Johnny Depp than Depp

SRK's impromptu party looked refreshingly ‘normal’ and as cool as the Birthday Boy himself. King of Kool could be another tag for the man who once declared himself 'the last of the stars'.

Nvidia worth $5 trillion: What does it mean for the market?

The chipmaker at the heart of the AI revolution may be the most influential stock in Wall Street history. Nvidia has been the primary driver of the market’s gains since the start of 2023.

Launch of India’s heaviest comms satellite is a level up for its soaring military ambitions. Here’s how

ISRO’s LMV3 rocket set off the CMS-03 satellite from Sriharikota Sunday. It weighs 4,410 kg, will primarily serve Indian Navy and has a life of at least 15 years.

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.