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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, reads Karunanidhi's coffin

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

8 Aug 2018 3:20 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: Twitter | ANI)

2 dead in stampede near Rajaji Hall where late Karunanidhi lies 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 3:09 PM IST

Mortal remains of the DMK patriarch are placed at Rajaji hall since Wednesday morning for visitors to pay their tribute to the late leader. (Photo: Twitter | ANI)

Watch: Cops resort to lathicharge after scuffle with Karunanidhi...

Seeing the swelling crowd, police blocked entrance of Rajaji hall following which people were seen climbing walls, trees...

8 Aug 2018 2:06 PM IST

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) president and former Tamil Nadu chief minister K. Karunanidhi. (Photo: PTI/File)

Pall of gloom descends on native village of Karunanidhi

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

8 Aug 2018 9:58 AM IST

DMK chief M Karunanidhi being laid to rest at Marina Beach. (Photo: ANI)

End of a political era in TN as DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi is laid to...

Former Tamil Nadu chief minister and DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi passed away on Tuesday at the age of 94.

8 Aug 2018 9:50 AM IST

Late DMK president Muthuvel Karunanidhi.

TN mourns Karunanidhi's death, schools, colleges to be shut today

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

8 Aug 2018 9:39 AM IST

A highly imaginative Karunanidhi did not leave any opportunity to show his historical knowledge and interest in organising functions. (Photo: File/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 9:12 AM IST

Late DMK president Muthuvel Karunanidhi.

Karunanidhi's burial at Marina Beach: Hearing to resume at 8 am today

The court will now resume hearing at 8 am as Tamil nadu government has reportedly sought more time to file a reply.

8 Aug 2018 5:57 AM IST

The matter was taken to court in a late-night hearing by DMK lawyers seeking what they said was the rightful place for their leader M. Karunanidhi.

No Marina burial for Karuna, DMK moves court

The row over the burial did not break out only after the death of Karunaidihi on Tuesday.

8 Aug 2018 2:00 AM IST

Karunanidhi for the last two years, he was confined to his Gopalapuram residence since he fell ill in October 2016, managing to faintly recognise people with his wide trademark smile. (Photo: Twitter/@kalaignar89)

Dravidian giant passes away

Karunanidhi, 94, breathed his last at a hospital in Chennai after battling illness for 11 days.

8 Aug 2018 1:55 AM IST

Karunanidhi stood like rock to protect the DMK and braved out after hobnobbing with Vajpayee-led BJP to re-negotiate an electoral alliance with Sonia Gandhi-led Congress for the 2004 Lok Sabha polls.

Karunanidhi: The man and the politician

Karunanidhi's early moorings as a dialogue and screen-play writer for Tamil films/theatre since the early 1940s', is by...

8 Aug 2018 2:22 AM IST

A disciplined party with a clear chain of command enabled MK to rule as unquestioned leader but with passage of time came ambitious relatives, for whose sake he forced his party to abandon its anti-nepotism stand. (Photo: Twitter/@kalaignar89)

Farewell to the last of Tamil Nadu's titans

However frail at the end of his 94 years, he was a colossus of Dravidian values till the end and always an eternal...

8 Aug 2018 12:25 AM IST