Chief Minister Arjun Munda flew off to Germany on Saturday hunting for fresh investments in Jharkhand

The widely reported protests against the Jaitapur nuclear power plant seem to have created an international ripple with Germany's second largest bank, Commerzbank, deciding to pull out of this venture.

Commerzbank, in an email sent to the NGO Greenpeace has cited reasons of "sustainability and reputational risk" for no longer wanting to be part of a project which is being set up with French col

Germany's policies prove that renewable sources of energy are a viable option.
IN September 2010, the German Federal Environment Agency announced that by 2050 the country would be in a position to meet all of its electricity requirements from renewable energy sources as opposed to the present 16 per cent.

This did not come as a surprise since Germany has always considered renewable energy sour

KALPETTA: The M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) and the Leibniz University at Hanover in Germany will jointly organise a three-year project on value and services of rice fields in Wayanad district.

The project is aimed at collecting scientific evidence and formulating policies on rice ecosystem services and values, N. Anilkumar, director, MSSRF told The Hindu.

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed the Union government and the Central Zoo Authority to ensure that the transfer of two Karnataka elephants, which will be given to a German zoo in exchange for two cheetahs, is carried out in a diligent manner.

The European Union looks set to overhaul the way renewable energy projects and power grids are financed, launching a new type of infrastructure bond and converging the EU's tangle of overlapping subsidies.

European leaders will meet in Brussels for a February 4 summit to reconcile an EU goal of getting 20 percent energy from renewable sources by 2020 with a debt crisis that has driven several E