The ailing Kerala Congress leader breathed his last at the Ananathapuram Hospitals and Research Institute in Thiruvananthapuram on Thursday evening.
President Pratibha Patil, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi led the nation in mourning the death of former Kerala Chief Minister K Karunakaran, hailing him as a "visionary" leader and a "true patriot."
"I have taken the decision. Now only the procedures have to be followed," he told Asianet TV channel.
There is no need to take the consent of the Lok Sabha speaker to prosecute him in the Palmolein case, the Kerala high court said.
'There will be no compromise with someone who has betrayed the party at this stage even if she is my sister,' Congress MP K Muraleedharan told reporters.
Karunakaran was shifted to a special ward from the ICU on September three after it was found that he was responding well to the treatment. The 90-year-old former Kerala Chief Minister was shifted back to ICU yesterday, Dr Lionel Gnanaraj, Superintendent of CMC told media persons.
The police on Friday registered a case against Kerala Health Minister P K Sreemathi and seven others complying with a court directive with regard to the death of new-born babies at a government-run hospital in Thiruvananthapuram.
"I had differences with the Congress leadership. But now I realise it was a mistake on my part to have quit the Congress. I have no difficulty in admitting even standing on the top of Himalayas, that it was a mistake," he said.
Malvika Bansod pulled off a sensational straight-game victory over Paris Olympics bronze medallist Gregoria Mariska Tanjong of Indonesia in the women's singles opening round.
Nine Congress legislators loyal to veteran leader K Karunakaran are likely to resign their assembly memberships and formally join the National Congress-Indira on Tuesday.
Asked whether Pawar was not alluding to the possibility\n\nof Karuanakran quitting the Congress when he referred to 'a\n\nsenior leader from Kerala', Karunakaran quipped by saying "did\n\nhe say the seniormost leader?"
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'While some women allow themselves to be exploited so that they can climb up the ladder, there are many voiceless and silent people who get exploited by men in powerful positions.'
Senior Congress leader and former Kerala chief minister K Karunakaran has been admitted to the Vellore Medical College Hospital for neuro-cognitive and rehabilitation treatment.The veteran leader was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit on the advice of doctors in Thiruvananthapuram who were treating him for about a fortnight after he met with an accident, deputy leader of the Kerala Congress committee Pitambaram Kurup said.
Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee president Ramesh Chennithala and Leader of the Opposition Oommen Chandy discussed in detail various aspects of the former chief minister's return to the party when they met Sonia in New Delhi on Thursday morning.
Gayatri Gopichand and Treesa Jolly lost in straight games against China's Li Yi Jing and Luo Xu Min.
A convention scheduled on January 28 will work out his faction's future strategy.
Addressing a large gathering of his supporters in Kochi, he said if the party failed to act before November 25, he will pull the government down.
It has decided to drop proceedings in the palmolein import case in which former CM figures as an accused.
Veteran Congress leader K Karunakaran, 91, was admitted to a hospital in Thiruvananthapuram on Thursday. The former Kerala chief minister complained of breathlessness and fever.
Karunakaran has said that the NCP is an important party.
A steady stream of mourners led by Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Friday paid homage to veteran Congress leader K Karunakaran at his residence in Thiruvananthapuram where his mortal remains are kept.
"We have not even thought about merger. It is not on the cards," he said, complaining that the statements he issued after his recent trip to Delhi were misreported or misinterpreted.
The stage is set for the re-entry of K Muraleedharan, son of veteran leader late K Karunakaran, to the Congress as the state leadership is planning to formally appeal to party president Sonia Gandhi to take him back. Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee president Ramesh Chennithala on Friday said he and former Chief Minister Oommen Chandy will meet Gandhi early in February to request the re-admission of Muraleedharan, who broke ranks with the parent body six years ago.
Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh on Saturday paid his last respects to former chief minister of Kerala and Congress Working Committee member K Karunakaran at the Thrissur townhall.
'Is it not a fact that all good leaders in the Congress have left the party?'
Though the octogenarian leader has persistently avoided the term 'split' so far, his announcement on Friday on quitting his Rajya Sabha seat is seen as an indication of the formation of the new outfit.
Kodoth Govindan Nair has defied the Congress high command and filed his nomination.
It was a smooth performance from Sindhu as she was hardly tested by the Taiwanese qualifier
In a strategic move, the BJP has welcomed prominent Christian figures like Anil K Antony, son of Congress stalwart AK Antony, and seasoned Kerala politician PC George, into its fold.
'After giving my own money to this party, I was insulted.'' 'Neither this party nor its leaders have no respect for women.'
Veteran Congress leader and former Defence Minister A K Antony said on Tuesday that his son, Anil K Antony, who is contesting as a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate in the Pathanamthitta Lok Sabha seat in Kerala, should not win the election.
Srikanth lost 21-23, 8-21 to Korea's Chia Hao Lee, continuing his dismal run in international circuit this season.
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