With the latest serial blast in Jaipur, leaving 60 innocent dead, while injuring 150, it seem terrorists are now targeting smaller town instead of metro cities.

7 Blasts took off at crowded places in a span of 12 minutes. According to sources the intensity of the blast was low, and RDX usage has been ruled out. The home ministry sources suspect Bangladesh-based Harkut-ul-Jehadi Islami to be behind the blasts.

The serial blast took place within a two km radius. The bombs went off at the Hanuman temple, Manas Chowk , Johari Bazar, Badi Choupal, Tripolia Bazar and Choti Choupal. All the places were packed with people when the blast occurred. It is feared the toll may go up further. Blood splattered every where and some victims thrown several feet up.

Being a Tuesday, the hanuman temple at Tripolia bazaar was flooded with devotees.

RAF (Rapid action force) has been deployed and security beefed up. Securities have been increased in major cities including Delhi and Mumbai.

The menace of terrorism is here to stay, with different targets, different places, unless the Government takes bold steps to curb terrorism and its sponsors.

One of the blasts took place near our shop in tripolia bazar. the blast shattered our & many shop lights and my mamaji (uncle) had to run for his life after watching 3 dead instantly in front of him. Because the car park is behind the main market, he had to rush for his car; crossing the deadly path. We in dubai are so scared and concerned for the safety of our parents in Jaipur. Despite taking rapid actions in finding those behind the blast, the state government shamefully announced a price sum for the dead & injured. Insult to the injury is the fact that authorities were beforehand warned about the possible attack but no action was taken. It was terrifying listening the scary voice of my parents on phone :(:( we need an answer from the Indian government- Praveen Moolchandani - Dubai (Rooted in Jaipur)

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he Western world’s longstanding dominance in the burgeoning wind industry is now under attack from Suzlon, an Indian wind turbine manufacturer that has been rapidly catching up to GE and top European European wind companies since its founding only 11 years ago.

Suzlon is the unlikely creation of a group of brothers who used to run a textile business. Frustrated with the unreliable Indian power system, and unable to make do with an imported German wind turbine, the brothers began building and maintaining turbines themselves. Today, Suzlon is the fifth largest manufacturer worldwide in terms of installed megawatt capacity.

“Technology leapfrogging” is the name given to the phenomenon in which developing countries skip the intermediate phases of technological development that industrialized nations went through, and instead leap right to the cutting edge, adapting business models and products to local needs in the process.

The most widely cited example of technology leapfrogging is the rapid spread of cell phones throughout the developing world. Many of the nations in which cell phones are now prevalent never had a functioning fixed-line telephone system in the first place, both because the infrastructure for fixed line is expensive to develop and maintain, and because monopolistic or state-run phone companies never had any real incentive to invest.

Some of the same dynamics appear to be playing out in India. Electricity boards are owned by state governments under political pressure to keep rates low. The result is an underfinanced and unreliable power system that suffers frequent outages.

Businesses have been forced to adapt by seeking alternative power supplies, and with oil prices high wind has filled some of the gap. According to the article, “roughly 70 percent of the demand for wind turbines in India comes from industrial users seeking alternatives to relying on the grid.”

Demand for turbines is surging in both India in China, which respectively saw 48% and 65% growth in the number of installations in the past year. Worldwide, turbine manufacturers have been unable to keep up with demand. Suzlon recently opened their first factory in Minnesota.

Is there any hope that China and India will leapfrog past the last century’s fossil fuel-powered industrialization directly to a more sustainable economy? Sadly, the answer is probably not. The enormous growth in demand for energy is such that coal, the dirtiest of all fossil fuels, continues to loom large in their future.

(Update: further thoughts on technology leapfrogging, looking at particular at the demand side of the energy equation.)

Aritcle from terrapass.com