Former minister, Challakere’s former legislator Thippeswamy passed away this morning. He was 76 years old. Thippeswamy breathed his last at Columbia Asia Hospital in Bengaluru where he was admitted following a severe illness.

Thippeswamy was Excise and Irrigation Minister in the governments led by HD Devegowda and JH Patil respectively. He was elected as MLA from Challakere Assembly constituency in 1985 for the first time.

The Madras high court on Wednesday allowed DMK leader M Karunanidhi to be buried at Chennai’s Marina beach.

“All we need is 6X6 foot land for a tall leader, nothing else,” said DMK in Madras high court while concluding its arguments for burying DMK leader M Karunanidhi at Chennai’s Marina Beach, the resting place of many Dravidian political icons.

The Madras High Court is hearing the arguments of the DMK and the Tamil Nadu government in the case filed by the opposition party against the government's decision not to allot land at Marina Beach to bury late DMK President M. Karunanidhi.

The DMK wants him interred near the seafront memorial of DMK founder and Karunanidhi's mentor C.N. Annadurai.

A youth has been killed while two passersby suffered injuries when a fight broke out on Delhi streets, police said on Wednesday, adding three persons have been arrested.

The incident occurred in south Delhi area late on Tuesday when a group of youngsters clashed apparently over personal enmity, a police officer said.

"Can I call you Appa for one last time my leader," DMK leader M.K. Stalin penned an emotional letter to his departed father and party leader M. Karunanidhi on Wednesday.

Chief Minister for five times and leader of DMK party for 50 years, the 94-year-old Karunanidhi breathed his last here owing to age related ailments in a private hospital here.

Two girls schools have been set ablaze in Pakistan's Balochistan province, police said on Wednesday. No casualty was reported.

The schools located in Pishin district were set on fire late on Tuesday when the institutes were closed as they were both day schools.

Tens of thousands of emotionally charged people from all over Tamil Nadu on Wednesday paid homage to DMK patriarch M. Karunanidhi even as his party battled legally with the state government for a burial place at the Marina Beach here.

Led by Governor Banwarilal Purohit, Chief Minister K. Palaniswami, DMK members, leaders and people from all walks of life -- VIPs and others --file past the mortal remains of Karunanidhi at the Rajaji Hall in the heart of Chennai.

The Madras High Court on Wednesday morning would decide on the DMK's plea against Tamil Nadu's government's decision to deny burial of the party President M. Karunanidhi's body at Marina Beach.

Hearing the plea late Tuesday night, the court directed the state government and the Chennai Corporation to file their replies and adjourned the case to Wednesday morning 8 a.m.