Compiled by SHYAFIQ DZULKIFLI, BEH YUEN HUI AND R.ARAVINTAN
SOME 100 devotees from Banting, Selangor, began their “paatha yatra” or pilgrimage on foot to the Maran Sri Marathandavar Temple, Malaysia Nanban reported.
The devotees are undertaking the journey in conjunction with the Pangguni Uthiram festival, set to be celebrated at a temple in Maran, Pahang, on April 11.
The pilgrimage, which is being undertaken for the 18th year, is organised by the Banting-Maran Paatha Yathra Association.
The journey began on Monday evening with special prayers at the Kuil Sri Maha Mariamman in Kelanang Baru.
> Sri Lanka has arrested 1,700 people for abandoning their military service, Makkal Osai reported, as brought up by Minister of Public Security and Parliamentary Affairs Ananda Wijepala.
Many of those arrested were deserters from the three branches of the armed forces and the police.
More than a thousand illegal firearms have also been confiscated in the last two months alone, he said.
(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.)
