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Magnitude 3.9-earthquake strikes Maharashtra, epicenter at Latur Indo-Asian News Service , Updated: September 19, 2011 11:08 IST Mumbai:  An earthquake measuring 3.9 on the Richter Scale shook Maharashtra on early Monday, barely 12 hours after a powerful quake jolted northern and eastern India, an official said. According to an official of the Seismological Monitoring Centre, the quake was felt at 6.22 am with the epicenter in Latur district. Though there are unconfirmed reports of minor damage to a few houses in some villages, no casualties have been reported so far, an official said. The quake was felt, among other areas, in Latur, Parbhani, Osmanabad and Solapur districts.   Read more at: http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/magnitude-3-9-earthquake-strikes-maharashtra-epicentre-at-latur-134638&cp   Larsen & Toubro Limited www.larsentoubro.com This Email may contain confidential or privileged information for the intended recipient (s) If you are not the

Indo-Asian News Service , Updated: September 01, 2011 15:45 IST New Delhi:  Smoke emitted from one mosquito repellent coil is equivalent to those of 100 cigarettes, thus causing harm to a large number of people in India, an expert said on Wednesday. "Not many people know about it, but the damage done to your lungs by one mosquito coil is equivalent to the damage done by 100 cigarettes. This was according to a recent study conducted in Malaysia," said Chest Research Foundation director Sandeep Salvi. He was speaking at the conference 'Air Pollution and Our Health', organized by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) along with the Indian Council for Medical Research and the Indian Medical Association. Mr Salvi said there is a lack of awareness about the impact of air pollution on human health. Pointing out the "lack of research culture" among Indian doctors, Salvi said that indoor air pollution too is a health risk factor. Participants at the

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Dear Friends,   I'm sharing this article posted on NDTV, that's the local news channel trusted by the majority.   Kerala's astrologers caution against opening vault of the Sree Padmanabha Swamy temple NDTV Correspondent , Updated: August 12, 2011 10:34 IST I Thiruvnanthapuram:  A priceless treasure in Kerala's Sree Padmanabha Swamy temple should not be moved out of the shrine. That is what a group of astrologers have concluded after conducting a four-day ritual called' Devaprashnam to find out the "will of the deity." The ritual reportedly found that taking the treasure - located inside the vault of the temple - out of the temple complex would affect the sanctity of the shrine. It also cautioned against opening the yet to be examined vault called 'Vault B', as it is located below the sanctum sanctorum.   Padmanabha Sharma, astrologer, who participated in  the Devaprashnam  said:   "Opening the secret vault will weaken the

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Incredibly bright isolated star in a nearby galaxy, VFTS 682, is three million times brighter than the Sun and was spotted during a survey of the most brilliant stars in and around the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The most detailed image of particle jets erupting from a supermassive black hole in the nearby galaxy of Centaurus A   Tiny green crystals, called olivine, thought to be raining down on a developing star. This picture was taken in infrared light by Spitzer and the arrow points to the embryonic star, called HOPS-68.   The olivine crystals are suspected to have been transported into the outer cloud around the developing star, or protostar.   This picturesque group of interacting galaxies is called Arp 273. The larger of the two galaxies, called UGC 1810, has been distorted by the gravitational tidal pull of its smaller neighbour, UGC 1813. The blue lights across the top of the larger galaxy are from clusters of intensely bright and hot young bl