Deputy Chief Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin on Saturday (February 21, 2026) released the fourth volume of the comparative etymological dictionary of Tamil and Indo-European languages and inaugurated an ...

VIRUDHUNAGAR: A 59-year-old farmer died after he was attacked by a python inside a forest near Mamsapuram on Sunday evening. The cause of death was ascertained on Monday after post-mortem examination ...

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.

Last Thursday, matplotlib developer Scott Shambaugh found himself in a peculiar situation. The day before, he had closed a pull request (PR) in the matplotlib project on the GitHub code repository. A ...

On February 11, the pull request was technically sound. It offered 24% faster code with benchmarks to prove it. But when matplotlib maintainer Scott Shambaugh discovered the contributor was an AI ...

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 a discovery that reshapes our understanding of ancient global mobility, researchers have identified Tamil-Brahmi inscriptions dating back approximately 2,000 years inside the high-security royal ...

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 ...

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 discovery is expected to provide new evidence of direct, two-way contact between ancient Tamil traders and Egypt during the Roman period._Representative photo Tamil-Brahmi inscriptions in Egypt's ...

A path-breaking finding has shed new light on trade links between ancient Tamilagam, other parts of India and the Roman Empire. Two researchers have identified close to 30 inscriptions in Tamil Brahmi ...