Compiled by C. ARUNO, ARFA YUNUS and R. ARAVINTHAN
THE 125-year-old Sri Thandayuthapani Temple in Sentul will hold its seventh grand Maha Kumbhabhishekam (consecration ceremony) next month, Malaysia Nanban reported.
The temple committee said the event will be held on Feb 3 after months of renovation works.
Its chairman SOK Singaram said it will start with a series of poojas from Jan 29 until the consecration ceremony is completed.
He said the last consecration 12 years ago saw thousands of devotees and visitors turn up, with more expected this time around.
> Income tax officials, who raided a politician’s house in Madhya Pradesh, India, were stunned to find three crocodiles, Makkal Osai reported.
When they searched the home of an ex-Bharatiya Janata Party assemblyman, they were not surprised to find 38 million rupees (RM2mil) in cash and 19kg of gold.But they were shocked to find the crocodiles in a pond at the house compound.
Online sources, which identified the ex-legislator as Harvansh Singh Rathore, said wildlife officials had since recovered two of the crocodiles.
The above articles are 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 a >, it denotes a separate news item.
