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 ...

PCWorld reports that Spotify offers a hidden “Basic” tier launched in mid-2024 for $10.99/month, providing music-only streaming without audiobooks or lossless audio. This plan requires existing ...

Pongal, a four-day Tamil harvest festival from January 14-17, celebrates the sun, earth, and cattle with rituals, kolams, and traditional food. Key events include Bhogi, Thai Pongal, Mattu Pongal, and ...

2025 was quite a polarising year for Tamil cinema. Audience thronged to theatres, not to watch the best of what the biggest stars of the industry had to offer, but to listen to good stories from ...

Fifty Tamil tutors are assiduously trying to impart the basics of the language to about 1,500 Hindi-speaking students at various schools under the Tamil Karkalam (Let’s Learn Tamil) programme, ...

Varanasi/Chennai: Students in government schools in Varanasi are showing joy and eagerness to learn Tamil and explore its rich heritage, thanks to the special 'Tamil Karkalam' initiative of the ...

Tamil Nadu's non-formal education department is exceeding its literacy targets, with 30 lakh learners aimed for by the New India Literacy Programme. Districts like Salem are leading the way, with ...

As Americans struggle with the high cost of living, an old idea is getting a fresh look. In dozens of pilot programs around the country, policymakers and researchers are exploring what happens when ...

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...

In Coimbatore, a Gond community from Central India faces social discrimination and lacks basic rights, leading to high school dropouts and poverty. Despite being recognized as a scheduled tribe in ...