Director Tamil Azhagan, son of R. M. Veerappan, has passed away. He directed hit films like Baasha and Panakkaran. Superstar Rajinikanth expressed deep sadness, calling Azhagan his younger brother.

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 ...

At 6 am, before most people in Tamil Nadu had boiled their first tea, Rs 5,000 landed in the bank accounts of 1.31 crore women. Only later did an announcement come. In a tightly sequenced move that ...

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 ...

The second week of February brings a diverse slate of South Indian films to streaming platforms. From mainstream Telugu entertainers and Tamil political satire to Malayalam thrillers and rural ...

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 ...

The Tamil comedy-drama Thalaivar Thambi Thalaimaiyil, starring Jiiva and Prathana Nathan in the lead roles, has arrived on an OTT streaming platform. Directed by Nithish Sahadev, the film was released ...

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 ...

Residents of areas along Rajiv Gandhi Salai are objecting to increasing the height of the arterial road during the recent re-laying. The road has not been cold milled, a process where the top layer is ...

The Paho Java Client is an MQTT client library written in Java for developing applications that run on the JVM or other Java compatible platforms such as Android The Paho Java Client provides two APIs ...