The fourth edition of the cultural and educational exchange programme Kashi Tamil Sangamam will be held from December 2, the Ministry of Education announced on Saturday (November 22, 2025). This ...

A significant musical collaboration is set to electrify Tamil cinema as legendary composer Ilaiyaraaja and his son, Yuvan Shankar Raja, will sing together for the first time in the upcoming film ...

“Through Tamil Virtual Academy website, we have taken Tamil to about 17.2 crore visitors in the past four years,” said Minister for Information Technology and Digital Services Palanivel Thiaga Rajan.

Music director duos are a unique Bollywood feature. Names like Shankar-Jaikishan, Laxmikant-Pyarelal, Kalyanji-Anandji, Nadeem-Shravan and Jatin-Lalit hold pride of place among the most celebrated ...

Ahead of 'Nayakan's re-release for Kamal Haasan's birthday, Chennai's Kamala Cinema owner Vishnu announced the first ticket is reserved for the late actor Robo Shankar. This touching tribute, with ...

As the northern skies settle after Diwali’s fireworks, the South readies for its own celebration of light, Kartika Deepam, Tamil Nadu’s grand festival that turns hilltops, temples, and homes into seas ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Shankar had spent large parts of 2023 and 2024 chained and tethered while in ‘musth’, a state of heightened aggression in male elephants Delhi zoo’s lone African elephant, Shankar (29), died of the ...

Some songs fade with time, but a few become emotions that live forever. Amma Paata is one such melody, a tender whisper from a daughter’s heart to every mother’s soul. What began as a quiet tribute ...

Kavin's Tamil romantic movie Kiss is gearing up for its OTT release. For the unversed, the movie released in theatres on September 19, 2025, and it will now stream from November 7, 2025, onwards on ...

Uday Shankar, a former journalist, criticised the persistent use of caste as a political instrument. Ahead of the highly anticipated Bihar Assembly elections, media executive and JioStar Vice Chairman ...

BJP MP Ravi Shankar Prasad, while speaking at NDTV's Bihar Power Play Conclave on Saturday, downplayed caste-based politics in Bihar ahead of the Assembly elections. According to him, while caste has ...