The decision to call time on Tamil Nesan was not one taken lightly, its managing director S Vell Paari said today.

“The paper was first published on Sept 24, 1924, and it has a rich history.

"But over the past 10 years or so, the shareholders have been subsiding its running cost,” he said, in confirming that Tamil Nesan, one of the oldest newspapers in Southeast Asia, will cease operations on Feb 1...