A TEENAGER who struggled to bury his grandfather had received some much-needed help, reported Makkal Osai.

       Muguntha Vinoth, 15, had been staying with his grandparents in Butterworth, Penang, after his mother passed away a year ago in an accident. His father died earlier.

       Chandrasekaran Karuppiah, 68, and his elderly wife took in Muguntha and his disabled younger brother despite their own financial problems.

       When Chandrasekaran died, the teenager had no way of burying him until Penang Kalai Kalachara Sevai Mandram and the Penang Hindu Endowment Board came to his aid.

       > The controversial National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET) in India has come under renewed criticism after a Tamil Nadu student due to sit for it took his own life, Makkal Osai reported.

       The super competitive exam, which is conducted by the National Testing Agency, is the entrance examination for medical and dental programmes in Indian universities.

       About 1.2 million students sat for the exam this year with papers in 13 languages, including Tamil for the first time.

       ● 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.