This data set contains ~6500 news articles which were collected by Ravi from Tamil news websites.
The data set has been cleaned and contains train and test set using which you can benchmark your classification models in Tamil
License - CC BY 4.0
Authors - Gaurav
Language - Tamil
Reference- https://datasetsearch.research.google.com/search?src=0&query=tamil%20nlp&docid=L2cvMTFqbnozeGZzNw%3D%3D
https://www.kaggle.com/disisbig/tamil-news-dataset