A HOSTEL at SJK (T) Ladang Midlands is only housing 20 pupils, although it was built for 200 people, Makkal Osai reported.
Shah Alam Tamil school board chairman K. Uthaya Sooriyan said the school and hostel were completed at a cost of RM9mil.
The school board, management and parent-teacher association are working to get more students to stay at the hostel.
Selangor exco member V. Papparaidu, said the state government will provide RM100,000 to help finance the operations of the school and hostel.
The state will monitor the hostel and provide more help if needed.
> The daily also reported that a tree in India became a pilgrimage site after one of its stumps began secreting “holy water”.
The tree, located in a public park in Pune, apparently began secreting water about a week ago.
Locals began worshipping it and the stump was adorned with turmeric, kumkum and garlands.Some even claimed the water could cure illnesses.
However, an investigation found that the liquid came from a leaking underground pipe and the water started coming through a gap in the hollow stump.
It was unclear if it was repaired or if people had stopped coming.
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.
