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Sunday, February 22, 2026
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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.

On Camera

Nick Jonas wearing a mangalsutra is validation for many Indians. He’s our favourite jiju

Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

In a first, Indian small arms maker to bid for UK Project Grayburn to replace British Army’s SA80 rifles

Bengaluru-based SSS Defence has made public its bid for a major foreign military contract, targeting UK’s ambitious SA80 successor programme with its home-tested weapons.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.