World Tamil Conference

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  Tamil Nadu Honours WHO Chief Scientist For Helping State Fight COVID-19

  Chief Scientist of World Health Organisation, Soumya Swaminathan was on Saturday conferred with the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister's special award, in recognition of her advisory role in combating the COVID-19 pandemic in the state.

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  Coronavirus Outbreak Highlights: PM Modi Leads Video Conference Of SAARC Nations

  The COVID-19 outbreak which began in a market in China's Wuhan district in December last year has spread throughout the world. There are over 80 confirmed cases in India. India has also started evacuating its citizens from other countries after the World Health Organisation declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic and said that Europe is the ne...

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  AIADMK Slams DMK For Criticising MG Ramachandran's Centenary Celebrations

  Ruling AIADMK today lashed out at DMK over its criticism of former Chief Minister M G Ramachandran's birth centenary celebrations, saying the amount spent on it was a fraction of that used by DMK for the world Tamil conference when it was in power in 2010.

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  Singapore Launches App to Kindle Interest in Tamil

  Singapore has launched a mobile app to kindle interest and help young children understand the Tamil, one of the four official languages in the country.

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  Singapore Set to Host Annual Conference on Tamil Language

  A three-day conference on Tamil language computing and Tamil internet will be held in Singapore by the end of May and international experts have started work on their papers to be presented at the event.

• Sri Lanka President criticises Left party leader for attending DMK meet

  Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Wednesday cautioned that separatist elements in the country have not given up yet, in a veiled reference to the Tamil Eelam supporters' conference held in Chennai recently.

• Tamil Conference: A matter of Politics?

  Tamil was accorded classical language status in the year 2004 but it's only six years later that the Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi decided to hold the first edition of  world classical Tamil conference. The much hyped first edition of the world classical Tamil conference ends at Coimbatore on Sunday.Home Minister P Chidambaram and Fi...

• Threat to Tamil conference: 7 arrested

  Tamil Nadu Police have arrested seven people in Coimbatore for distributing pamphlets against the ongoing Tamil conference. Five of those arrested belong to a radical organisation called Democratic Youth and two to another such outfit, the Democratic Youth Front.Today is the third day of the lavish five-day Tamil conference, a pet project of C...

• Karunanidhi's dream Tamil conference begins, it'll cost 380 crores

  For close to 400 crores, Tamil Nadu gets to celebrate its language for a period of five days with Tamil scholars from all over the world -4000 of them.  It's all part of the extravaganza that is the first World Classical Tamil Conference in Coimbatore. (Forum: Is the 382-crore bill worth it? Comment here) The event was inaugurated this morning...

• World Tamil Conference begins on Wed in Coimbatore

  The first ever edition of the World Classical Tamil Conference is all set to take off in the Industrial city of Coimbatore. President Pratibha Patil is going to inaugurate the event on June 23. Also sharing the dais would be the Chief Minister of state M Karunanidhi. While the preparations are on with gusto, some demands by certain political partie...

• LTTE declares ceasefire for SAARC summit

  Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka have announced they would observe a unilateral 10-day ceasefire from July 26 as a ",goodwill", gesture coinciding with the SAARC summit, an offer downplayed by the government in Colombo, which declared that the war on terror would continue. The Tigers will not undertake any attack when the South Asian Association for Regi...