The numbers tell a worrying tale. In the 2016 Assembly elections, when ex-CM J Jayalalithaa was still alive, the AIADMK secured a vote share of 41.3 percent, winning 136 seats and forming the ...

When Tamil writer Jeyamohan’s Stories of the True, a collection of short stories, was published last year by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the United States, he travelled from the west coast to the ...

Thiruvalluvar, revered by Tamils as an ancient saint, poet, and philosopher, has often been invoked by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other leaders. On the occasion of Thiruvalluvar Day last month ...

CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu has a total of 5,67,07,380 electors — 28,960,838 women and 27,738,925 men, according to the final electoral roll of the Special Intensive Revision 2026 released on Monday.Chief ...

Peter Jackson, Roland Emmerich and Ray Bradbury were clients, and Ron Howard, Tony Bill and Barbara Corday were big fans. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Linda Seger, who served as a script consultant on ...

Actor and Makkal Needhi Maiam founder Kamal Haasan’s debut speech in the Rajya Sabha, in which he launched a scathing attack on Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman over her remarks on Dravidar ...

The State’s interim Budget for the financial year 2026-2027 was presented in the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly on Tuesday (February 17, 2026) by Finance Minister Thangam Thennarasu ahead of the ...

Superstar Rajinikanth took to X, formerly Twitter and mourned the loss of producer-director V. Tamil Azhagan. Both worked together in films like Thang Magan and Baashha. The producer who was the ...

Tamil is one of the oldest living literary languages in the world. Its classical corpus stretches back over two millennia. Its modern literature, however, has had to fight for oxygen inside its own ...

The euphoria over actor Vijay’s plunge into politics may not have entirely dissipated, but a series of critical legal challenges has complicated the campaign strategy of his party, the Tamilaga Vetri ...

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 ...

In the dim corridors of Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, where New Kingdom pharaohs were buried more than three millennia ago, visitors have long left their marks. Predominant among the graffiti are Greek ...