Digitising handwritten texts in Tamil, a Dravidian language spoken by over 80 million people, has long posed challenges due to cursive scripts, overlapping strokes, and subtle stylistic variations.

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 ...

Stalin said the Supreme Court’s advisory opinion does not alter the April 2025 ruling and reaffirmed that the Governor cannot indefinitely hold or stall Bills. The Raj Bhavan rejected allegations of ...

As rising seas threaten India's coast, Tamil Nadu’s fishing villages are fighting to protect ancient sand dunes — their lifeline in multiple ways. As rising sea levels and unchecked development ...

Tamil Nadu’s Self-Respect Movement built a strong foundation for social justice and pluralism, countering the RSS’s centralised, faith-driven nationalism. The state’s welfare-driven “coming together” ...

The premiere of Bigg Boss Tamil, Season 9, commenced on Sunday (5 October) at 6 PM with Vijay Sethupathi returning as the show’s host. 20 contestants from various walks of life have been selected as ...

Bigg Boss Tamil Season 9: Bigg Boss Tamil is gearing up for its much-awaited new season, with Vijay Sethupathi once again taking on hosting duties. After replacing Kamal Haasan in the previous season, ...

Nearly 16 years after Sri Lanka's civil war, former female fighters from the country's northern provinces still have limited opportunities. Ranjini reminisces with a mix of nostalgia and regret about ...

Researchers have developed a word segmentation tool that identifies word boundaries in ancient Tamil texts — a language once written in continuous script without spaces between words, a feature known ...

A deep depression over the Bay of Bengal has led the IMD to extend Tamil Nadu's heavy rain alert to December 1. Chennai is under yellow and orange alerts, expecting heavy rain from November 28 to 30.