Woman finally gets licence for charcoal production

AN entrepreneur from Perak is the first Indian woman in the country to receive a licence for charcoal production, Malaysia Nanban reported.

The woman, identified only as Gomathy, said her family had been in the business for more than four decades.

However, she has not been able to obtain a licence despite several applications to the relevant departments and had been operating under someone else’s licence.Her latest application in 2020 received the support of Forestry Department officials.

With the help of Perak exco member A. Sivanesan, the application was approved and Gomathy received her licence.

With the licence, she will have access to 2.42ha of forest land for producing charcoal. The licence is up for renewal every five years.

> A woman in Bangalore, India, stabbed her mother to death and turned up at a local police station with the body stuffed in a luggage bag, the daily also reported.

The 35-year-old woman, who is a physiotherapist, apparently got into an argument with her mother.

She gave her elderly mother sleeping pills and stabbed her to death after the mother fell asleep.

She carried out the murder while her husband was at work and her mother-in-law was in another room.

● The above article is compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with this ' >'sign, it denotes a separate news item.