Month: June 2024

60 percent of Indians have language pet peeves: Report

Delving deeper into India’s linguistic irritations, the survey revealed that 55% of Indians have either committed or come across the incorrect use of common homophones like 'your/you're,' 'their/there/they're,' using 'anyways' instead of 'anyway,' or the perennial 'who/whom' confusion. (Representative Image: Surendran MP via Unsplash)(Representative Image: Surendran MP via Unsplash)

Duolingo has partnered with YouGov to explore the language frustrations faced by Indians, uncovering a myriad of mispronunciations, grammatical errors, and homophone mix-ups.

Jyotiraditya Scindia takes charge as Minister of Communications

The meeting with the Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia was attended by the likes of Reliance Jio Chairman Akash Ambani and its MD Pankaj Pawar, Rajan Mittal, VC of Bharti Enterprises and Akshaya Moondra, MD, Vodafone Idea, among others.

In the previous Modi government, he was the Aviation Minister. In his new role, he takes over Ashwini Vaishnaw who has been allocated the Information & Broadcasting, Railways and IT.

Mumbai illegal hoarding collapse: MSHRC cracks down on home dept for not appearing at hearing

The home department was the only body with no representation or report during the hearing which caused the bench to respond sternly.

The MSHRC had issued summons to the home department, police, Government Railway Police (GRP) and Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to appear before them on June 6 after a complaint filed by advocate Amit Dubey.

MDH, Everest, among other spices found unfit for consumption in Rajasthan

Additionally, the health department also found that the pesticide and insecticide levels in the spices were much higher than the permissible limits, which were potentially high on the health risk scale. (Representative image by Ratul Ghosh via Unsplash)

Strong action will be taken under the Indian Food Safety and Standards Act, based on orders passed by the state’s health minister Gajendra Singh Khinvsar. This includes immediate confiscation of the deemed unsafe spices.

DDB Mudra Group appoints Shashank Lanjekar as national strategy head

Shashank Lanjekar's previous assignments include strategy and account management roles at Soho Square (now 82.5 Communications) within the Ogilvy India group and McCann Erickson.

Prior to this, Shashank Lanjekar served as chief strategy officer at VML India, where he spearheaded strategy for key accounts like IDFC First Bank, Titan Skinn, Hindustan Unilever and Reckitt Benckiser.

India to witness 9.5 percent growth in ad revenue in 2024; India’s total ad revenue in 2024 projected to be $18.5 billion

Notably, the average transaction size for mass-market and mass-affluent products jumped by 11 percent and 12 percent respectively on match days in host cities. (Representative Image: Mathieu Stern via Unsplash)

The report mentioned that USA and China are the largest drivers of growth accounting for 57.1 percent of global ad revenue, adding $44.5 billion to their totals in 2024 (excluding U.S. political spending) — nearly 1.5 times the cumulative $27.4 billion in incremental revenue for all other markets combined.