Communication Channels
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Behind BSNL and MTNL’s poor services: A retirement scheme, staff shortages and delayed 4G
Users across the country are giving up their MTNL or BSNL connections as the loss-making public sector companies struggle to stay afloat.
Aarefa Johari
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Why and how Morse code has survived for 175 years
Morse code works whether flashing a spotlight or blinking your eyes – or even tapping on a smartphone touchscreen.
Eddie King, The Conversation
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The traditional British red telephone booth is undergoing a 21st-century makeover
Display screens for advertising, USB ports wifi connectivity et al are in the pipeline.
Nigel Linge, The Conversation
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Watch: Shah Rukh Khan as an anchor on a 1980s Doordarshan music program
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Shiv Sena passes resolution to stop Eknath Shinde faction from using Balasaheb Thackeray’s name
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The British government is offering farmers a lump sum payment to quit agriculture
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Droupadi Murmu as President would be a triumph for the Sangh – but perhaps not for India’s Adivasis
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Did a Marathi film released in May predict the current political crisis in Maharashtra?
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Watch: How vision and hearing-impaired people communicate with each other
It may seem tricky but there are many ways of doing it. And technology has helped.
Scroll Staff
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From ‘Huh?’ to ‘Who?’: the universal utterances that keep us talking
The discovery that 'Huh?' crops up in many languages may have won the researchers an Ig Nobel Prize. But they found much more than that in their search for the universals in language.
Nick Enfield, The Conversation
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Tianjin disaster takes social news sharing to new levels in China
Social media is rewriting patterns of communication in China.
Tim Dwyer and Weiwei Xu, The Conversation
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Eco India, Episode 188: How to tackle waste, which is hidden in plain sight
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‘Plastic is forever’: Actor Pierce Brosnan and his son bring attention to plastic waste management
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Watch: Shah Rukh Khan as an anchor on a 1980s Doordarshan music program
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Watch: Ukrainian president Volodymr Zelenskyy virtually addresses crowd at Glastonbury arts festival
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‘Not pro-life, just anti-women’: George Carlin’s 1996 set resurfaces as US overturns abortion rights