NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu government on Friday credited Rs 3,000 in advance to 1.31 crore women beneficiaries, along with an additional Rs 2,000 as a "summer special package" under the Kalaignar Women's ...

CHENNAI: In a discovery that reinforces the footprint of ancient Tamil civilisation across the globe, around 30 inscriptions, the majority of them in Tamil Brahmi, the early Tamil script, have been ...

A Tamil trader who travelled to Egypt around 2,000 years ago carved his name inside the rock-cut tombs of Egyptian pharaohs in the Valley of Kings, and the markings have now been identified by Swiss ...

These findings, presented at a Chennai conference, rewrite our understanding of ancient trade routes and suggest multilingualism among these traders. Photo: X Researchers have discovered about 30 ...

The findings, which confirm that ancient Tamil traders travelled deep into the Egyptian interior for exploration and tourism, were presented by Swiss scholar Professor Ingo Strauch on the inaugural ...

Of 30 inscriptions uncovered at the Valley of Kings by Strauch and Schmid, 20 are in Tamil. CHENNAI: Around 2,000 years ago, a Tamil trader who visited the rock-cut tombs of Egyptian pharaohs ...

Among the inscriptions found in six rock-cut tombs, 20 are in Tamili and the remaining 10 are in Sanskrit and Prakrit, implying that people from several regions of the Indian subcontinent were ...

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi landed in Malaysia for his first foreign visit of 2026, the language he chose to emphasise was not Hindi or English, but Tamil. “India and Malaysia are also united by ...

The Tamil romantic drama With Love has opened on a good note at the box office. The film collected around Rs 1.50 crore on its first day. It features a fresh lead pair and a debut director. The movie ...

This is the seed (Beej) mantra of Lord Ganesha. “Om” represents the universal sound, “Gam” is Ganesha’s bija (seed syllable), “Ganapataye” refers to Lord Ganesha, and “Namah” means “I bow to you.” ...

Sankashti Chaturthi, also known as Sankatahara Chaturthi, is an important Hindu festival dedicated to Lord Ganesha. Observed every month on the fourth day (Chaturthi) of the Krishna Paksha, or the ...