News

The Oxford English Dictionary has included the word "lah into its lexicon, a significant nod to the uniqueness of Malaysian English. According to the OED, this colloquial particle is used as an ...
For almost 40 years, the words the nation uses in speech, newspapers and books has been mapped by a small team at the ...
The term ball peen hammer first saw print in 1874, when a mechanic’s dictionary referred to it as a “metal worker’s hammer ...
THIS is so far the best of the smaller and cheaper English dictionaries that comparison seems almost ludicrous. We have a book of nearly 1500 pages, well printed and stoutly bound, for seven and ...
Average Australians have triple the income and more leisure time than in 1960. Now, greater productivity can accelerate such ...
The actual name of the machine is 'Backhoe Loader', but over time, the brand name JCB became so common that it is now used ...
Vijayawada: The state government has undertaken an extensive exercise of distributing student kits called ‘Vidyarthi Mitra ...
Education minister Nara Lokesh says Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Vidyarthi Mitra initiative aims to boost government school ...
Government distributes 35.94 lakh school kits worth ₹953.71 crore, focusing on education over politics, saving ₹63.80 crore.
VIJAYAWADA: The State government has saved Rs 63.80 crore through transparent tendering and three-tier quality check system ...
We organise dictionary quizzes across the country. We are also among the first publishers to bring out a Shakespeare dictionary,” said Priyadarshini Bhattacharyya, associate director, marketing, Oxfor ...
Clatterbridge Pharmacy (trading as PharmaC) is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation ...