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Tamil Nadu's E Palaniswami government has faced a barrage of criticism for rejecting the DMK's request for M Karunanidhi's burial next to the grave of his political mentor CN Annadurai along Marina beach. National Conference chief Omar Abdullah found the ruling AIADMK's stand petty, Congress president Rahul Gandhi asked the E Palaniswami government to be magnanimous and the CPM general Sitaram Yechury described the AIADMK government's denial of the burial site "most unfortunate".

Departed DMK chief M Karunanidhi gifted his residence at upscale Gopalapuram in Chennai in 2010 for setting up a hospital for the poor.

Private bus operators have decided to stop their services to and from Chennai till Wednesday evening as large number of passengers have cancelled their tickets and also as a precautionary measure, said an office-bearer of All Omni Bus Operators Association.

DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi who died in a hospital on Tuesday evening, cannot be laid to rest along the Marina beach in Chennai, the ruling AIADMK government has said, turning down requests from the DMK for permission to bury him next to the grave of his mentor and DMK founder, CN Annadurai at Chennai's "Anna Square" memorial.

After pictures of five men posing with a king cobra they caught went viral on social media, the act landed them in prison.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi put out a series of tweets in tribute to DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi, who died at 94 this evening.

After 11 days in intensive care at a hospital in Chennai, one of Tamil Nadu's tallest leaders, DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi, died this evening. He was 94.

Muthuvel Karunanidhi was the last of Tamil Nadu's politicians with a colossal mass following, like MG Ramachandran and Jayaram Jayalalithaa. For decades, the state's politics was dominated by the rivalry between its two towering figures - Jayalalithaa and Karunanidhi.

DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi -- five-time Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu who dominated the state's politics for six decades along with arch-rivals MG Ramachandran and later, J Jayalalithaa -- died at a hospital in Chennai this evening. The 94-year-old leader was admitted to the hospital on July 28 after he contracted urinary tract infection and developed a high fever.

The Madras High Court has asked the Tamil Nadu government to decide where DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi will be laid to rest and will resume hearing at 8 am on whether his burial will be at Anna Square memorial along Chennai's Marina beach.

President Ram Nath Kovind said the real value of education lies in how we learn to help fellow human beings and not in degrees.

DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi is "extremely critical and unstable", a hospital in Chennai said on Tuesday, a day after the politician's health worsened. Security has been tightened outside the hospital, where crowds of supporters surged.

Normal life was affected in Kerala as public transport kept off the roads in support of the 24-hour nationwide motor-vehicle strike by transport unions to protest against the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill.

A PG medical student of SV Medical College in Tirupati, who had accused three professors of sexual harassment, has committed suicide in Andhra Pradesh's Chittoor district.

LGBT campaigners urged state governments on Monday to "learn a lesson" from Kerala after authorities in the southern state said they would cover the cost of gender reassignment surgeries. Kerala's chief minister said his government would pay Rs 2 lakh to allow people to have the procedure, the second state to do so after neighbouring Tamil Nadu.