Chief minister M K Stalin on Wednesday presented the Avvaiyar Award 2023 to R Kamalam Chinnasami, a 90-year-old writer and social worker based in Ooty, and the best student award to Class XI student ...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, while reading out the annual Union Budget speech in Parliament, referred to a folk couplet while talking about schemes for farmers. In the 16 action points ...

NAGAPATTINAM: Chief Minister MK Stalin on Wednesday virtually laid the foundation stone for a memorial dedicated to Sangam-era poet Avvaiyar in Thulasiyapattinam village near Vedaranyam in the ...

CHENNAI: For Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma, the Japanese American who translated the Tirukkural to English, the journey to discovering Tamil and its literary treasures began when his dream of travelling to ...

Chennai: After Tiruvalluvar, it is now the turn of Tamil poet Avvaiyar’s statue to be unveiled at the sprawling lawns of the Raj Bhawan, the residence of the TN governor. Tamil Nadu Governor Ch ...

Dr.Sarada Menon, a well-known psychiatrist and founder of Schizophrenia Care and Research Foundation (SCARF) has been awarded the Avvaiyar award for 2016 by the Tamil Nadu Government for her work in ...

Chennai: Tamil legendary poetess Avvaiyar figured in the State Assembly debate on Tuesday, leading to the State water Resources Minister Durai Murugan saying that there had been five Avvaiyars ...

Construction work is on in full swing for establishing a memorial for Avvaiyar at Thulasiyapattinam village near Vedaranyam. The memorial, dedicated to the revered Sangam-era poet Avvaiyar, is being ...

Avvaiyar was the title of more than one female poet who were active during different periods of Tamil literature. They were some of the most famous and important female poets of the Tamil canon. Ms ...

Chennai: Tamil Nadu government today honoured social worker Padma Venkataraman with the state's "Avvaiyar Award" for 2017. Padma, daughter of former President of India, the late R Venkataraman, was ...