MUMBAI: BBC World Service has re-launched its Tamil website bbctamil.com with new  features, content-sharing functions, a mobile version and an access to archived radio programmes.

Revamped bbctamil.com has a wider format, featuring more detailed content categorization, videos stories and image galleries.  In addition to the day's radio programmes, users can listen to archived materials for a week from the day of the broadcast.  User can also share content via online social-networking sites such as facebook and twitter.

BBC Tamil editor Thirumalai Manivannan said that his team is looking forward to even better engagement with the Tamil-speaking online community:  The re-launched bbctamil.com provides the stories and features in a better organised, more consistent and user-friendly way, which, we believe, will make people want to come back to us.  And the ever increasing number of those who engage in online social networking will welcome our new content-sharing features....

BBC Tamil is part of BBC World Service.  Its 30-minute daily radio broadcasts, between 15.45 and 16.15 GMT (21.15 and 21.45 Indian and Sri Lankan times), provide an essential global and regional insight and impartial news to Tamil-speaking audiences in India, Sri Lanka and across the world.  The programmes includes sports, business and showbiz bulletins which is available in Chennai via Big FM.

MUMBAI: BBC World Service has re-launched its Tamil website bbctamil.com with new  features, content-sharing functions, a mobile version and an access to archived radio programmes.

Revamped bbctamil.com has a wider format, featuring more detailed content categorization, videos stories and image galleries.  In addition to the day's radio programmes, users can listen to archived materials for a week from the day of the broadcast.  User can also share content via online social-networking sites such as facebook and twitter.

BBC Tamil editor Thirumalai Manivannan said that his team is looking forward to even better engagement with the Tamil-speaking online community:  The re-launched bbctamil.com provides the stories and features in a better organised, more consistent and user-friendly way, which, we believe, will make people want to come back to us.  And the ever increasing number of those who engage in online social networking will welcome our new content-sharing features....

BBC Tamil is part of BBC World Service.  Its 30-minute daily radio broadcasts, between 15.45 and 16.15 GMT (21.15 and 21.45 Indian and Sri Lankan times), provide an essential global and regional insight and impartial news to Tamil-speaking audiences in India, Sri Lanka and across the world.  The programmes includes sports, business and showbiz bulletins which is available in Chennai via Big FM.