Tributes paid to Nehru in TN

Former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was remembered in Tamil Nadu on his birth anniversary on Saturday.

Fisheries Minister D Jayakumar and his cabinet colleagues -- P Benjamin and K Pandiarajan -- paid floral tributes to a portrait of the late leader near his statue at Kathipara junction here.

TNCC president KS Alagiri took to Twitter to pay tributes to the "architect of modern India." Born in 1889, the Congress stalwart remains the country's longest serving Prime Minister.