Oxford Dictionaries

Rediff.com » News » Oxford Dictionaries

News for Oxford Dictionaries

News
Business
Movies
Sports

So much the phone has taken away from us

'How did we get here?''How did utility morph into addiction?''Is this what Graham Bell intended?' asks Veenu Sandhu.Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com It often makes me nauseous, yet I am unable......

The A-Z of 2018

The year gone by, decoded by Shuma Raha. A for Alexa IMAGE: You can voice interact with Amazon Alexa. Photograph: Kind courtesy Amazon.com Now a year old in India, Amazon's cool, AI-powered......

When will Indians stop killing each other for the cow?

'The cow can always be the CAUSE.''Cause for murder. Cause for setting India's people against each other.''Not recognising the fact that this can tip the country into an unending spiral of civil......

Sheena Bora Trial: Heat and Forgery

Then came the electrifying climax of Tuesday's hearing.Pasbola showed Sharma copies of cheques that had been deposited at the bank with Indrani's signature on them.He accused Sharma of forging......

The Power of Assured Indian Innovation

Can we make high speed 4G Internet available at 10 cents per GB, and make all voice calls free of cost -- that too in a large and diverse country like India? Can we make high-quality but simple......

Mr Modi, it's time you reformed the IAS!

Contrary to the popular belief that the IAS cadres manage the country - they are actually required to manage politicians, most of whom do not pass any sort of muster, says T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan.......

Why West Bengal is lagging behind other states

For the Bengal government, there is no alternative to revising user charges and also creating a strong industrial base, rues Ashok Lahiri In March 2014, before the Lok Sabha elections, Professors......

Why West Bengal is lagging behind other states

Microsoft gives employees sneak peek at new 'selfie' phone

Microsoft Corporation's hardware chief gave employees a sneak peek at a 'selfie' phone featuring a 5 megapixel forward-facing camera at an internal meeting this week, a source at the company said......

Five best ways to deal with pink slips

No one seems to know where the term ‘pink slip’ originated. The Oxford English Dictionary notes that the words were first used as a verb in a novel written in 1966 -- “his wife......

We Indians love binge-watching!

Indians may have come late to the binge-watching party a little later than the West, but we're making up for lost time, says Shuma Raha. New reports suggest that we are the fastest in the world......

We Indians love binge-watching!

Indians may have come late to the binge-watching party a little later than the West, but we're making up for lost time, says Shuma Raha. New reports suggest that we are the fastest in the world......

Was Bombay Jayashri's Life of Pi song inspired?

There are remarkable similarities between Bombay Jayashri's Oscar-nominated song in Life of Pi and Irayimman Thampi's age-old composition. We make a case for the 200-year-old melody.Almost every......

Was Bombay Jayashri's Life of Pi song inspired?

Sarhad Paar: Terrible!

It has been little over one and a half hours since the wait began. A look at the watch raised hopes. Another 20-odd minutes and my tryst with obnoxious filmmaking would come to an end.Why do people......

Kohli breaks Tendulkar's record; fastest to 10000 runs in ODIs!

Sachin Tendulkar needed 259 innings to get to 10,000, while Kohli has so far batted in 205 ODIs. Besides Tendulkar and Kohli, Sourav Ganguly, Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Rahul Dravid are the other......

2 huge positives for India after South Africa series

SA Tour Positives: 60 wickets in Tests, Plan A ready for World Cup IMAGE: Virat Kohli neither changed his aggressive brand of captaincy nor his propensity to tinker with the playing XI in every......

Web results for Oxford Dictionaries

SHOCKING! Oxford Dictionary's synonyms for women

In the current versions of the Oxford English Dictionary, the synonyms for 'woman' include some eye-poppingly sexist words: b***h, besom, piece,... ...

http://www.rediff.com/getahead/report/shocking-oxford-dictionarys-synonyms-for-women/20191101.htm

The Truth About Superfoods

The conversations about superfoods usually revolve around exotic foods while there are some common everyday foods that we don't even consider.... ...

https://food.ndtv.com/food-drinks/superfoods-demystified-the-truth-about-superfoods-2113019

See All