Former vice president M Venkaiah Naidu, founder of Sulabh International Bindeshwar Pathak and a host of other prominent persons were conferred with Padma Awards by President Droupadi Murmu at a ceremonial function held at the Rashtrapati Bhavan on Monday. Pics/PTI

The veteran actor Krishna, who also happens to be the father of actor Mahesh Babu, breathed his last today after suffering a mild cardiac arrest. The entire south film industry came to a standstill with this news. Krishna, whose full name was Ghattamaneni Siva Rama Krishna Murthy, had made his debut in films as a leading man in 1965 with `Thene Manasulu`. Today, many celebs came to pay their last respects to the departed soul.