Odisha reports highest human-elephant conflict deaths in India, raising concerns among wildlife experts about escalating fatalities and habitat disruption.

In the era of backward integration with natural resources, the focus has shifted to securing supplies of critical minerals and rare earth elements, as they are key ingredients for modern technology, ...

The government is pressing automakers to redesign electric motors and other parts without rare earth magnets, even as it prepares a policy push to build domestic magnet-making capacity.

CHENNAI: In a discovery that reinforces the footprint of ancient Tamil civilisation across the globe, around 30 inscriptions, the majority of them in Tamil Brahmi, the early Tamil script, have been ...

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 ...

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 ...

Extreme fire weather days have nearly tripled globally, driven by climate change, says University of California, Merced study. Discover the regional impacts.

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 ...

CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu clocked a robust economic growth of 11.2%, the highest among major states in 2024-25, according to the Economic Survey of Tamil Nadu 2025-26 released on Monday.The gross state ...

Vijay targets DMK and AIADMK ahead of Tamil Nadu Assembly election in April He hit out at the DMK, his "political enemy" while going soft on AIADMK to attract swing voters Vijay likened his party's ...

Inaugurating the Tamil Nadu Global Tourism Summit 2026 at the UNESCO heritage site of Mamallapuram, the chief minister also unveiled a ₹100 crore plan to establish a Special Area Development Authority ...

Two senior Congress leaders have questioned Tamil Nadu's ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam over delayed seat-share talks before the Assembly election likely in April. Lok Sabha MPs Manickam Tagore and ...