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DMK cadres and Kalaignar fans fill up all roads as Karunanidhis cortage reaches Anna Square in Chennai on Wednesday evening.

Million people march for M Karunanidhi on his funeral

Grieving DMK cadres were spread out all along the route of the cortege from the Rajaji Hall to the Marina Beach memorial...

9 Aug 2018 2:03 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi pays his last respects to DMK chief M Karunanidhi at Rajaji Hall, in Chennai on Wednesday. (Photo: DC)

PM Modi leads VIP mourners

Before leaving the venue, Modi greeted the teaming crowd of mourners with folded hands.

9 Aug 2018 2:00 AM IST

Supporters, in large numbers, arrive to pay their last respects to DMK chief M. Karunanidhi at Rajaji Hall in Chennai on Wednesday. (Photo: AP)

Man who never rested, finally rests

Million people accompanied Karunanidhi's final journey to Marina Beach where he was laid to rest.

9 Aug 2018 12:58 AM IST

The countrys high and mighty descended on the city to pay their last respects to the Thalaivar. (Photo: AFP)

Dravidian doyen M Karunanidhi laid to rest at Marina, lakhs bid adieu

Karunanidhi was buried with full military honours with soldiers giving him a gun salute and buglars sounding the last...

8 Aug 2018 8:52 PM IST

The golden casket in which the mortal remains of Karunanidhi would be laid to rest will have the engraving in Tamil, Oivu edukamal uzhaithavan, idho oivu eduthu kondu irukiran, meaning One who worked hard without taking rest, is resting in peace here. (Photo: Twitter | ANI)

One who worked hard without rest, rests in peace here, reads...

Lines written on coffin were penned by Karunanidhi himself three decades ago and were also referred to in letter written...

8 Aug 2018 3:06 PM IST

Karunanidhi achieved fame as a scriptwriter in the early 1950s before dominating the political scene in the state of Tamil Nadu for nearly five decades. (Photo: PTI)

M Karunanidhi: A cricket lover who adored Sachin Tendulkar, MS Dhoni...

The scriptwriter-turned-politician was a voracious leader and a legendary writer, known for his love for theatre and...

8 Aug 2018 2:52 PM IST

Several people have suffered injuries in the stampede that happened when the police were allowing them to enter the Rajaji Hall in batches. (Photo: AP)

2 dead in stampede near Rajaji Hall where late Karunanidhi lay in...

MK Stalin said, 'Those who are in power are trying to create chaos, but you have all shown the strength of the cadres.'

8 Aug 2018 2:40 PM IST

Karunanidhis son and DMK working president MK Stalin broke down soon after the Madras High Court ruled. (Photo: Twitter | ANI)

Stalin breaks down after HC ruling on Karunanidhi's burial at Marina

Madras High Court ruled that M Karunanidhi will be buried next to his mentor CN Annadurai at Marina Beach in Chennai.

8 Aug 2018 11:44 AM IST

DMK supporters outside the hospital, where DMK president M Karunanidhi is being treated for fever due to urinary tract infection. (Photo: PTI)

Have lost our identity: Karunanidhi's native village mourn DMK chief's...

Villagers turned up in large numbers to pay floral tributes at a portrait of the DMK patriarch at his house in...

8 Aug 2018 10:08 AM IST

Supporters of former Tamil Nadu chief Minister and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam political party chief Muthuvel Karunanidhi wail upon hearing the news of his demise outside the Kauvery Hospital in Chennai on Tuesday. (Photo: AP)

Tamil Nadu mourns Karunanidhi's death, schools, colleges to be shut...

A seven-day mourning has also been announced in the state by the Tamil Nadu government.

8 Aug 2018 9:58 AM IST

DMK chief M Karunanidhi with his son MK Stalin on his 63rd birthday in Chennai on March 1, 2015. (Photo: PTI)

Shall I call you Appa once at least now? son Stalin pens poem for...

'Every time you used to tell me the place where ever you go. Now, where did you go without telling me?' MK Stalin poem...

8 Aug 2018 8:36 AM IST

DMK supporters react after the party president M Karunanidhi passed away, in Chennai. (Photo: PTI)

3,500 sq ft for Jayalalithaa but AIADMK refusing 6 ft for Karunanidhi:...

DMK said AIADMK's refusal to permit the burial was plain and simple 'political vendetta' and 'reeks of pettiness'.

8 Aug 2018 8:03 AM IST