-The Times of India The Tatra trucks being supplied to the Indian Army are obsolete, running on Fuel-guzzling old engines with mechanical transmissions that are years behind the rest of the world, Army sources said. The details are believed to be part of Army chief General V K Singh's inputs to the CBI. The severe shortcomings would be a key part of the CBI's inquiry into Gen Singh's allegation that he was...

-The Hindu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Wednesday reiterated her appeal for allocating the entire power to be generated from the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP) to the State. In her letter addressed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the Chief Minister said: “I understand that nuclear Fuel loading is going to take place in the next few days in the first unit of the plant of 1,000 MW [megawatt] capacity. It is expected...

-The United Nations A sustained rise in prices for raw natural resources and basic agricultural goods is defying long-standing patterns and appears to be hurting poor nations through rising food and Fuel costs more than it is helping them through higher revenues for their commodities exports.   That was one of the findings of the Commodities and Development Report 2012, a study launched at the 13th session of the UN Conference on Trade...

-IANS India's ambitious national solar programme has catalysed rapid growth in the solar market driving solar energy prices low and demonstrating how government policy can stimulate clean energy markets, according to a new report. In only two years, competitive bidding under India's National Solar Mission drove prices for grid-connected solar energy to nearly the price of electricity from fossil Fuels, said the report released here Wednesday by the Natural Resources Defence...

The economic crisis, the ecological crisis and the food crisis are a reflection of an outmoded and fossilised economic paradigm. It is a paradigm that grew out of mobilising resources for the war by creating the category of “growth”. It is rooted in the age of oil and fossil Fuels. It is fossilised because it is obsolete, a product of the age of fossil Fuels. If we have to address...