Call made to restore school’s name


Compiled by QISTINA SALLEHUDDIN, C. ARUNO and R. ARAVINTHAN

THE Indian community in Gopeng, Perak, has called for the name of the Tamil school there to be rever­ted to its original name from 1965, Malaysia Nanban reported.

SJK (T) Gopeng was initially known as Thiruvalluvar Tamil Padasalai Gopeng or Thiru­vallu­var Tamil School.

State exco member Datuk A. Sivanesan, who accompanied Deputy Education Minister Wong Kah Woh during a recent visit, said he is ready to support the effort to bring back the original name honouring the ancient Indian sage, the daily reported.

 

> A man in India reportedly killed his brother-in-law and took his remains to the police station, where he was arrested, Makkal Osai reported.

The 30-year-old man from Karnataka was said to have discovered that his married younger sister had been having an affair with his wife’s 24-year-old brother.

The suspect then asked the victim to come to his house to discuss the matter.

When the victim arrived, he was beaten to death with a steel rod.

The suspect then put the victim’s body into the car and drove to the police station to confess to the murder.

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.

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