Brickfields temple to host 108-idol procession
THE Sri Sakthi Karpaga Vinayagar Temple in Brickfields will hold a 108-idol procession to mark the Vinayagar Chathurthi festival on Aug 27, Makkal Osai reported.
The festival celebrates the birthday of Lord Ganesha and is one of the most important festivals for Hindus worldwide.
Many of the Vinayagar temples in Selangor will participate in the procession, said temple chairman S. Kanaga Naidu.
Temple head priest Siva Sri Ganesa Gurukkal encouraged devotees and attendees to wear traditional clothing.
> Relatives of a young woman who died demanded the husband's family return the dowry received, the daily also reported.
The woman, identified as Laavanya from Telangana, got married three years ago but separated from her husband and lived with her parents.
Several days ago, Laavanya and her father died in a motorcycle accident.
Police negotiated for the husband's family to give about two million rupees (RM97,000) to the deceased's family.
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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