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Friday, October 10, 2025
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Topic: Oxford dictionary

‘Sole mate’ debate: Shashi Tharoor vs Suhel Seth, a punny face-off

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor and author-actor Suhel Seth are butting heads in an interesting pun-filled online exchange.

Antibodies, booster, comorbidity — an A-Z guide to how Covid changed language in 2020

In 2020, several new words and phrases were added to common parlance due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Here's a look at the new lexicon.

The pandemic has produced only one new word—Covid-19. But it’s changing the English language

The editors of the Oxford dictionary are having to do something unusual. Giving special updates every other month on words Covid is bringing into English.

What’s Floccinaucinihilipilification? Ask RBI

Central bank watchers battling to predict RBI policy makers’ next move have another thing to contend with ⁠— words from the mid-18th century and Voltaire.

Hindi has grown from 20,000 to 1.5 lakh words in 20 years, and very quietly

Hindi dictionaries of the government add words without fanfare. They are not accompanied by an announcement, and there’s no log of evolution either.

Rahul Gandhi’s claim of new word ‘Modilie’ is not true, Oxford Dictionaries confirm

Congress president Rahul Gandhi taunted PM Narendra Modi in a tweet, saying ‘Modilie’ is a new word that has been added in the English dictionary.

Something poisonous, something inaccurate & more: The top words of 2018

These were the top words of 2018 -- according to Oxford, Meriam-Websters, Collins & others

On Camera

In Great Game for Kabul, India plays a patient hand. Multi-alignment to compartmentalisation

Pakistan’s reported air strikes on Kabul last night, coinciding with Acting Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi’s visit to India, seem intended to send...

Geomysore Services to begin full-scale production at private gold mine in Andhra Pradesh

The company said initial output will be around 500 kg a year, rising to nearly 1,000 kg annually once statutory clearances are secured. 

India, UK sign £350 mn deal for Martlet. What are these Lightweight Multirole Missiles

In service with the British military since 2019, it is also known as the Martlet missile. Ukrainians have also deployed these missiles against Russian troops.

How Pakistan thinks: Army for hire, ideology of convenience

Pakistan’s army has been a rentier force available to a reasonable bidder. It has never come to the aid of any Muslims including Palestinians or the Gazans, except making noises here and there.