CHENNAI , India, Dec. 5 (UPI) -- Jayalalithaa Jayaraman, governor of India's Tamil Nadu state and known nationally as the "Iron Lady," died Monday after suffering a heart attack, officials said. She was 68.
"It is with indescribable grief we announce the sad demise of our esteemed honourable chief minister of Tamil Nadu Puratchi Thalavi Amma," Apollo Hospitals in Chennai said Monday.