Arun Janardhanan

Alagiri and Stalin have been at loggerheads for years over who will inherit Karunanidhi’s legacy. Before his expulsion, Alagiri had famously questioned if the DMK was a “mutt” where the pontiff could anoint his successor.

Justice Ramesh also complained that the Madras HC Registrar’s request to oversee the seating arrangements for the HC judges was denied by Raj Bhavan officials.

The DEMU train on the Pattukkottai-Karaikudi stretch in Tamil Nadu takes 5 hours to cover 74 km, during which it stops at 34 level crossings. As a passenger asks, “Isn’t this slower than a man walking?”

But as he steps into his father’s giant shoes, he will feel the burden of expectations — his own and that of his partymen.

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The DMK’s plea challenged a state government release in which it cited pending cases and legal hurdles and stated that it cannot allot space at Marina Beach.

As a veteran groomed in the rationalist movement and an atheist, Karunanidhi lived by his ideals till the end. He is remembered as a quintessential writer, and shrewd leader with a spontaneous sense of humour.

Wheelchair-bound since 2009, and retired from politics since October 2016, Karunanidhi’s health condition worsened on July 26 when he developed fever and urinary tract infection.

Karunanidhi’s Marina beach burial: The tussle over the site started hours before Karunanidhi was declared dead, when his son and DMK working president M K Stalin met Chief Minister E K Palaniswami to request that his father be buried near Anna Samadhi, the memorial of DMK founder C N Annadurai.

The Karunanidhi regime in 1989 made an amendment to provide equal rights for women in ancestral property, to make sure that women have equal rights as men in the family.

Karunanidhi death: Many watching the DMK camp say Stalin may have to rethink the party’s highly centralised power structure which is controlled by him and his group of handpicked people.

“He is on continuous monitoring and being treated with active medical support. His response to the medical interventions over the next 24 hours will determine the prognosis,” said the statement.

Chennai: Police said the boy murdered his 35-year-old aunt, who was a housewife, after she reportedly asked him to stop coming to her house for allegedly disturbing her 13-year-old daughter.

Votes of the Thevar community are expected to play a crucial role in the bypoll, which could turn out to be yet another battle of the ruling AIADMK and opposition DMK with Dhinakaran’s AMMK.

The order, issued on August 1, comes in wake of a tussle between the state government and the court-appointed investigator, IGP A G Pon Manickavel.

What made the police team suspicious was that some men, dressed in dhotis like DMK leaders, walked around alone and did not raise any slogans when the rest of the crowd did.

Karunanidhi (94) was rushed to a private hospital in Chennai around on Saturday following a drop in his blood pressure.

Around midnight, his children, M K Stalin, M K Alagiri and Kanimozhi, rushed to Karunanidhi’s Gopalapuram residence. Following news about Karunanidhi’s health, party leaders and workers gathered outside the hospital.