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There is a distinct murmur that can increasingly be heard in the corridors of power across the length and breadth of the entire country, and especially so within different Secretariats dotting State capitals right from Srinagar all the way down to Chennai : if rumors are to be believed, each time an attractive new investment proposal comes forth, the entire bureaucracy, Chief Secretary downwards, rushes into a collective huddle, with just one fervent prayer on its lips- plz don’t let the Gujaratis find out,

Schadenfreude isn’t a sentiment most of us would admit to very easily- we usually like to think we are better than that. But as the world recently watched the royalty of global media squirm and wriggle in visible discomfort on prime time TV, not too many tears would have been shed for the father-son duo that has lorded over the biggest media empire in the world, and created more enemies than friends in the course of its almost inexorable rise to the top.

Solar energy has the power to disarm you with its apparent simplicity, which is perhaps the reason why there has been such a spurt in excitement surrounding this still nascent sector over the last few years. For a nation whose energy woes are likely to multiply exponentially in the not too distant future, it represents that one glimmer of hope, the Holy Grail as it were, of actually being able to fight off the tyranny of perennial oil dependency, and break free of both the economic and  political shackles that this dependency has imposed upon this country for far too long.

 The recent announcement by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, that her country intends to phase out all nuclear reactors by 2022 has once again set tongues wagging amongst the nuclear naysayers back home.

The recent announcement by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, that her country intends to phase out all nuclear reactors by 2022 has once again set tongues wagging amongst the nuclear naysayers back home.

At long last, the cookie has finally crumbled on the long awaited MMRCA race, and has left in its wake a rather bitter taste in many an American mouth. With news trickling in of the American duo-Lockheed Martin’ F-16 & Boeing’s Super Hornet- no longer being in the fray, the blame games in Washington have already started and can be only expected to get worse in the days ahead.From the picture that is emerging, it becomes clear that the Eurofighter Typhoon is currently the leading contender with most reliable reports marking it out as the favourite.