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The extraordinary story of a 14-year-old Malawian boy who transformed his village by building electric windmills out of junk is the subject of a new book, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind.

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The 12-million ton per annum capacity steel project of the Arcelor-Mittal Group is likely to be shifted from the present project site in tribal-dominated Torpa-Kamdara of Khunti district to other suitable location within Jharkhand as tribals living in the area have been vehemently protesting for sharing their land to build the steel plant.

JPMorgan Chase's investment bank is planning a push to win more business outside the US by building on the group's financial ties with companies around the world, its new head said.

Ahead of the first meeting of the Ganga River Basin Authority (GRBA) in New Delhi on October 5, intensive lobbying is on to build pressure on the Centre and the Uttarakhand government for the resumption of three hydel projects 600-Mw Lohari Nagpala, 480-Mw Pala Maneri and 381-Mw Bhaironghati which were suspended under the pressure of environmentalists and VHP leaders.

If I am just going into business for myself with out needing an investor, why do I need a business plan? A business plan gives you direction. It gives you a start and a finish, where you want to end up. It gives you a blueprint on building a achieving goals.

  There has been mass push when it comes to recommendation engines and the idea is quite interesting. I mean why cant we have a better shopping experience online and see what others think about a particular product we like or want to purchase? The social networks have made it much easier already, even online shopping sites work around this way given the fact that 70% or so consumers would at least read a couple of recommendations before they would actually go ahead with the purchase. This brings me to the Finnish startup, RunToShop which provides the stores with recommendation service. The idea is to build up a platform where everyone can benefit from the comments and recommendations left by your friends or others within your social network. Now there has been one thing that I feel bad about recommendations is that many a people would leave a negative comment or a dislike, which makes things just a bit more difficult for a potential buyer, but RunToShop has been pretty lucky at k

Oracle released an updated version of its personnel-management platform, PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Capital Management (HCM) 9.1, which includes new Web 2.0 capabilities such as chat, wikis and discussion forums. New features to the platforms applications include Succession Planning, which helps identify key talent and visualize results to build an organizations leadership pipeline. - st1\:* Oracle released the latest version of PeopleSoft Enterprise, a handful of applications designed to help manage workforces and the services they deliver, on Sept. 30. Those applications within PeopleSoft Enterprise include PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Capital Management (...

John Poindexter built his manufacturing company--while waging a 40-year battle to win medals for his troops in Vietnam.

One of the critical factors energy analysts focus on each fall, ahead of the rise in demand for heating fuels, is the pre-winter build-up of fuel inventories. This year, inventories are unusually high for all winter fuels, including distillates (which includes heating oil), natural gas, propane, and coal used for electricity generation.