{"id":301247,"date":"2018-08-08T06:26:39","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T06:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=301247"},"modified":"2018-08-08T10:11:58","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T10:11:58","slug":"madras-high-court-allows-burial-site-at-marina-beach-for-m-karunanidhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/madras-high-court-allows-burial-site-at-marina-beach-for-m-karunanidhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Madras High Court allows burial site at Marina Beach for M. Karunanidhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-299506 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Madras-high-court-1-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"485\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/Madras-high-court-1-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/Madras-high-court-1-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/Madras-high-court-1-590x420.jpg 590w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/Madras-high-court-1.jpg 693w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" \/>The Madras high court on Wednesday allowed the burial site for M Karunanidhi at Chennai\u2019s Marina beach. The order came on a petition filed by the DMK party after Tamil Nadu government refused to allot land for him at the beach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Meanwhile, Prime Minister Narendra Modi reached Chennai and paid his last respects to DMK President M Karunanidhi at the Rajaji Hall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-301263 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/modi-dmk-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"541\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/modi-dmk-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/modi-dmk-768x490.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/modi-dmk-1024x654.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/modi-dmk-696x444.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/modi-dmk-1068x682.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/modi-dmk-658x420.jpg 658w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/modi-dmk.jpg 1109w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 541px) 100vw, 541px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Indian Film actor turned politician Rajinikanth paid his homage to the Former Tamil Nadu CM at Chennai\u2019s Rajaji Hall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Tamil Nadu Chief Minister E\u00a0Palaniswami and his deputy O Panneerselvam, Lok Sabha Deputy Speaker M Thambidurai, senior state ministers among others paid homage to Karunanidhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Early on Wednesday, Karunanidhi\u2019s body was brought to the stately Rajaji Hall from his CIT Nagar home for the public to pay respects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Karunanidhi&#8217;s body was draped with the Indian tricolour.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The 94-year-old leader died yesterday evening at the Kauvery hospital due to age-related illnesses.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Madras high court on Wednesday allowed the burial site for M Karunanidhi at Chennai\u2019s Marina beach. The order came on a petition filed by the DMK party after Tamil Nadu government refused to allot land for him at the beach. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Narendra Modi reached Chennai and paid his last respects to DMK [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":299506,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2072,2014,2534],"tags":[1713,1900,3899,2374,4063,316,4064,644],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301247"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301265,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301247\/revisions\/301265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}