Rajaji Hall News
Karunanidhi's final journey will begin from Rajaji Hall, where his mortal remains are kept for public homage, by 4 pm.
People from different walks of life - leaders, actors, industrialists and others - also paid homage to their departed leader, whose mortal remains have been kept at the Rajaji Hall.
Karunanidhi's body will be brought to Rajaji Hall in the Government Estate in Chennai at 4 am on Wednesday. The arrangements have already been made for people to pay their homage, said the party.
Tamil Nadu CM O Panneerselvam on Tuesday held discussions with his predecessor J Jayalalithaa's confidante Sasikala Natarajan.
Jayalalithaa was laid to rest at the Marina Beach on Tuesday evening.
Former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and AIADMK supremo J Jayalalithaa, who passed away on Monday night after battling for her life at Apollo Hospitals in Chennai for nearly 75 days, was laid to rest with full state honours at Chennai's Marina Beach on Tuesday. She was buried next to her political mentor MG Ramachandran at Marina Beach. Here is how Puratchi Thalaivi Amma’s final journey concluded.
Jayalalithaa died on Monday night after battling for life for 75 days at Apollo Hospitals.
Tamil Nadu has declared a week-long mourning, during which schools and colleges will be shut for three days.
Jayalalithaa's demise is seen as a personal loss for 59-year-old Sasikala Natarajan who was probably one of the few occupants of the Chief Minister's Veda Nilayam residence.
Police on Tuesday resorted to mild lathi-charge outside Rajaji Hall in Chennai after sea of humanity thronged the venue here to pay their last respects to Jayalalithaa.
The West Bengal announced on Twitter that she won't be able to attend J Jayalalithaa's funeral.
After Jayalalithaa's demise, normal life was affected in Tamil Nadu.
President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday left for Chennai to pay his last respects to J Jayalalithaa, who died yesterday night.
The funeral of J Jayalalithaa will take place at Chennai's Marina Beach at 4:30 pm, the Tamil Nadu government announced.
Jayalalithaa, Amma to millions, passed away at Chennai's Apollo Hospital at 11.30 PM on Monday after waging a grim battle for life since her hospitalisation on September 22.
This is an amazing video of one of those rare moments when Jayalalithaa sang one of her favourite songs, that too in Hindi.
J Jayalalithaa, who passed away in Chennai last night, a day after she suffered a massive cardiac arrest, had dominated politics in Tamil Nadu for over three decades.
The central government announced one-day national mourning on Tuesday in view of the demise of Jayalalithaa.
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