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A huge fire broke out at Puttingal temple at Paravaur (Kollam District), Kerala over 102 people were died

A huge fire broke out at Puttingal temple at Paravaur (Kollam District), Kerala early Sunday morning leaving at least eighty dead and over a hundred injured, local media said quoting police officials. The fire took place at around 3.30 am this morning.

According to reports, the fire could have been caused due to a blast in the firework stockpile, readied for the temple celebrations. The police had earlier warned temple authorities to restrict usage of fireworks.

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Ban On New Diesel SUVs, Luxury Cars Above 2000 cc In Delhi Till March 31

The Supreme Court today banned the registration of diesel SUVs and cars above 2000cc in the national capital till March 31, saying the decision will not affect the common man.

The top court also ruled that diesel commercial vehicles registered before 2005 will not be allowed to enter Delhi. Entry of commercial vehicles, which are not Delhi bound, has also been banned, with the court ordering the traffic police to draw up alternate routes - trucks usually take National Highway 1 and National Highway 8 that take them through the capital. A green tax charged for trucks entering the city has also been doubled.

All taxis in the national capital have also been ordered to switch to CNG by March 31 2016.

The Supreme Court's decision came in response to a clutch of petitions including one on banning diesel vehicles in some cities in the face of alarming pollution levels in the country.

"Rich people can't go round in SUVs polluting the environment," the court had strongly remarked yesterday. It had also slammed car dealers arguing against a National Green Tribunal order banning registration of diesel cars, saying, "People's life is at stake and you are interested in selling cars."

Last week, the Tribunal had directed that no new diesel vehicles will be registered in Delhi. The tribunal had also said that the central and state governments must stop buying diesel cars in Delhi. These will be interim steps till the next date of hearing on January 6, the green court had said.

Last week, Chief Justice TS Thakur had called the pollution level in the national capital "embarrassing" and had asked for immediate solutions.

Around 23 per cent of the cars registered in Delhi are diesel. Diesel cars can legally emit 7.5 times more particulate matter than the petrol versions and produce more toxic nitrogen dioxide. Diesel emissions are also cancer causing, says the World Health Organization

Kerala CM asked to stay away from PM Modi's function; upset Congress may raise 'insult' issue in Parliament

 A day after Kerala Chief Minister Oomen Chandy was first invited and then asked to stay away from an upcoming event at Kollam to be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi could generate heat in Parliament on Monday as Congress is expected to raise the matter in the house.

"The chief minister was first invited and then the organisers told him it that would be better if he can keep away from it. People of Kerala want to know, who are these forces behind the organisers who asked the chief minister to keep away from the function," AK Antony, a senior Congress leader, told reporters here.

Also, top leaders of the Congress party have condemned the organisers` move to first invite the chief minister and then asking him not to take part.

PM Modi is scheduled to arrive in Kerala on his first visit to the state after taking over as Prime Minister. On December 15, he will unveil the statue of R Sankar at Kollam.

Sankar was the former Kerala chief minister and also president of the Congress party.

He was also the top leader of the powerful Sree Narayana Dhama Paripalana (SNDP) Yogam.

The programme has been charted out by SNDP Yogam general secretary Vellapalli Natesan, who last week floated a new political party, which is all set to become the ally of the BJP-led NDA.

Meanwhile, reacting to this episode, Chandy said that he was eagerly waiting to attend the programme.

"Shankar is a former chief minister and former president of the Congress party and the protocol also is such that when the prime minister is in the state, the chief minister should take part but since the organisers who invited me requested me to stay away, I am not taking part," the chief minister said in a release here.

Chandy, however, said that he will be in Kochi on December 14 to receive Modi and he will also be there at the airport here to see him off and also meet him along with the entire cabinet.

Translation of Indian president Narendra Modi's speech in Hindi to Malayalam went wrong.

മോദിയുടെ പ്രസംഗം സുരേന്ദ്രൻ തെറ്റായി പരിഭാഷപ്പെടുത്തി; മൈക്ക് മുരളീധരൻ ഏറ്റെടുത്തു...

While translating presidents speech in Thrissur,(kerala)  the translator made Big mistake from the starting onwards. at last  leader v muraleedharan take over the translation job

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മോദിയുടെ പ്രസംഗം സുരേന്ദ്രൻ തെറ്റായി പരിഭാഷപ്പെടുത്തി; മൈക്ക് മുരളീധരൻ ഏറ്റെടുത്തു...

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Asthma Risk in Children Rises by Over Two Times When Mother Smokes

The chances of a child to suffer from asthma rises by 2.1 to 2.7 times if the mother is a smoker. The same translates to 1.2-1.9 times when the child has a father who smokes. In the study published in the current issue of Journal of Asthma, Dr Bharat Bhushan Sharma, Associate Professor, SMS Hospital, and author of the article said that the risk of asthma increases with passive smoking.

"The chances of having asthma increases by 2.1 to 2. 7 times when mother of the child was a smoker. However risk for getting asthma rises by 1.2-1.9 times when the child's father was a smoker," he said and termed it as an alarming finding.

The lead author, Dr Sheetu Singh, Assistant Professor, Institute of Respiratory Diseases, described that pollution and passive smoking cause asthma and the risk of developing the condition increases when traffic pollution level near the house is high. She said that when heavy vehicles pass by frequently or almost for the entire day near the residence, the risk of getting asthma increases from 1.2 to 1.7 times.

"The traffic pollution levels were also analyzed during the study period in the same cities and it was found that the PM10 levels (which indicate the number of particles with size below 10m) were higher than the permissible limit in all the 8 centers in which the national air quality surveillance was conducted," Singh said.

"India was a part of the study conducted in over 100 countries all across the world and Jaipur was one of the centers. The Indian data were recently analyzed and published in the Journal in which 93,016 children of two age groups (5-6 years and 13-14 years) participated," she said.

Describing the data as frightening, Dr Virendra Singh, President Indian Chest Society said that traffic pollution should be controlled by better public transport system, banning entry of heavy traffic in the city and removing truck and bus repair shops from residential localities.

"Children should not be exposed to cigarette smoke and awareness should be generated among parents that smoking in presence of children increases the risk of asthma," he said.

He also claimed that this was the first Indian study documenting increased risk of asthma when either parent was a smoker.