‘Gargantuan task’: Why India’s renewable push will be hard

Plans to build a sprawling solar park on land cultivated for generations by indigenous farmers in India’s Himalayan foothills erupted in violent clashes with police last year after their crops were bulldozed for the development. Most men from the farming village of a few hundred in Assam state were out looking for…

Anonymous bidder pays $28 Million to fly to space with Jeff Bezos on July 20

Jeff Bezos, who is soon to assume chair as the executive chairman of Amazon, will fly to space on the first space flight by his rocket company Blue Origin on July 20. HIGHLIGHTS A man with probably a lot of money in his accounts just shelled out $28 million to share the spacecraft with the world’s richest man,…