Families typically begin the day with a ritual bath before visiting temples to seek blessings. In many households, the entrance is decorated with elaborate kolams (rice flour patterns) with a 'lamp' ...

A court in Tamil Nadu's Madurai district on Monday awarded death sentence to nine policemen in the custodial deaths of trader P Jayaraj and his son J Benicks in Thoothukudi district that triggered ...

The Congress announced on Friday, April 3, names of 27 candidates for upcoming assembly elections in Tamil Nadu. The list shows that the Congress has fielded nominees across a wide range of ...

Ahead of the Tamil Nadu assembly elections 2026, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) finalised its seat-sharing arrangement, with BJP to fight on 27 seats out of 234 while All India Anna Dravida ...

Election Date 2026 LIVE: Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, centre, with Election Commissioners S S Sandhu, left, and Vivek Joshi, right, during a press conference, at Vigyan Bhawan in New ...

The Model Code of Conduct (MCC) would be implemented strictly against the money distribution and inducement during the upcoming Assembly election in Tamil Nadu, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) ...

More than two millennia ago, traders from the Indian subcontinent may have walked through the same arid landscapes that today draw travellers from across the globe. In a discovery that bridges South ...

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 ...

Reaffirming confidence in the ‘Dravidian model’ of governance, Chief Minister M. K. Stalin said on Monday (February 9, 2026) that Tamil Nadu had grown to compete with nations in attracting investment.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Prime Minister of Malaysia, Anwar Ibrahim, raise their hands at the Indian diaspora event in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while ...

India's southern state of Tamil Nadu has a long, peculiar political tradition: here, cinema doesn't merely entertain, it also governs. From extremely successful political stints of MG Ramachandran - ...