Compiled by BENJAMIN LEE, C.ARUNO and R.ARAVINTAN
A TEAM of teachers and students from SJK(T) Bandar Mahkota Cheras clinched several top awards at the International Innovation Competition in Education (I-ICE2025) in Sabah, Malaysia Nanban reported.
Organised by the Association of Malaysian Researchers in Social Sciences, 19 teachers and 13 pupils from the Tamil school competed in multiple teams.
The pupils, who formed three teams, won platinum, gold and silver medals, with the platinum team also bagging the Best Team award in the Primary School category. The teachers secured two golds and a silver.
> The daily also reported that a 52-year-old man in India burned his 26-year-old girlfriend to death in broad daylight after catching her with another man.
When Vittal tried to douse them with petrol, his girlfriend and her companion fled. He caught up with her, poured petrol over her and set her alight.
Bystanders extinguished the flames and rushed her to hospital, but she died two days later from severe burns.
(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.)
