Congress President Rahul Gandhi, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and all the three armed forces chiefs on Friday led a host of leaders in paying homage to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, whose body was lying in state at his residence.

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.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday visited the ancestral house of late Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri at Ramnagar and paid his homage.

Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan on Wednesday led the house in paying homage to the late IUML MP E. Ahamed, who passed away early in the morning.

India on Sunday celebrated 147th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Pranab Mukherjee paid their tribute to 'Father of the nation' at his memorial at Rajghat in New Delhi.