After last year’s win, Hindi writer Geetanjali Shree’s Ret Samadhi (Tomb of Sand), the International Booker Prize 2023 has longlisted this week Perumal Murugan’s 2016 Tamil novel, Pookuzhi (Pyre), ...

The Supreme Court on Monday said it would hear on February 6 a plea challenging the Madras High Court order which had refused to quash the guidelines for granting exemption to students from giving the ...

EVERY Indian should make an effort to read and write in their mother tongue, Perak state executive councillor Datuk G. Rajoo said. Tamil schools and newspapers and the temples play a major part in ...

Through the New India Literacy Programme (NILP), lakhs of adults in Tamil Nadu, from daily wagers to guest workers, are going back to ‘school’ to learn to gain life skills. There are more than 30,000 ...

CHENNAI: The Tamil Development Department has issued a Government Order (GO) urging government employees, from the Chief Minister to junior staff, to write their initials and signature in Tamil. The ...

Prominent Tamil legislators from Sri Lanka's Northern province have written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking India's intervention in ensuring a lasting political solution to the long-standing ...