Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Friday (February 13, 2026) announced a major bonanza for women in poll-bound Tamil Nadu, crediting ₹5,000 each to the bank accounts of 1.31 crore women family heads who ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tamil Nadu is likely to witness disruptions on Wednesday, February 12, 2026, as central trade unions and farmers' organisations observe a nationwide Bharat Bandh. While the strike has been called ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kancheepuram: It’s half past midnight in Kancheepuram’s SEZ. The UV lights are on in what looks like an almost emptied-out factory floor. Its eerie silence is broken by a quiet melodic beep, like an ...

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 ...