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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‘Knowing we’re mortal gives us purpose’: Nobel laureate Venki Ramakrishnan on his new book
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Ramachandra Guha: How Narendra Modi has undermined the practice of science in India
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‘We are living in perpetual fear’: Prajwal Revanna video leaks spark panic among women in Hassan
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BJP Karnataka’s online video sparks outrage for ‘demonising Muslims’
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May in fiction: Cool down this summer with these six just-published novels
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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
Video
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Watch: This man fused hip-hop with Bharatnatyam to dance to Shakira’s ‘Hips Don’t Lie’
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Watch: Comedian hilariously mimics different types of announcements at railway stations
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Eco India: A new buzzword for a protein rich animal feed: Insect farming
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Eco India, Episode 259: How future-proof innovations can revolutionize the way we protect nature
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Video: What will it take to bring back peace to Manipur?