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Wipro’s and CESC’s are two post-independent India’s fairytale entrepreneurial stories, probably unparalleled in the annals of modern business management across the globe.

KOLKATA: It is almost certain that Bangladesh will hand over ULFA leader Anup Chetia by this December to India, with both countries very close to finalising an extradition treaty.

For about two years now the Team Anna led by the social activist and civil society leader Anna Hazare has brought the issue of corruption to the centre stage. Last year the team fought the Lokpal war and partially won and also partially lost. The government, bowing to the Team Anna’s pressure got the Lok pal passed in Lok Sabha but it is still stuck in Rajya Sabha. Anna’s movement was a huge success in 2011 because of the combined efforts of his team including Justice Santosh Hegde, lawyer Prashant Bhushan, social activist Arvind Kejriwal, Kiran Bedi and others. However, perhaps due to ego clashes, Team Anna got deviated somewhere down the line within a year.

The fear expressed in this Column, namely, that the Congress party may be losing its survival instinct, has come true within a fortnight. The November 4 rally in Delhi, held to celebrate the United Progressive Alliance government’s disastrous decision to open up multi-brand retail to foreign investment, gave out that message, loud and clear.

KOLKATA: The civil government that came to power in Myanmar after the general elections of 2010 has been slowly veering away from the old path. Efforts are on to make peace with the ethnic rebels who had been fighting the junta government for decades. The new government signed a ceasefire agreement with the Shan rebels in December 2011. Next month, January 2012, it signed another ceasefire agreement with the Karen rebels.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is not the only person, who is feeling restless over the prospects of Narendra Modi as the next PM candidate of BJP, the same restlessness may also be found in RSS. Former spokesman of RSS, MG Vaidya demonstrated his frustration over the growing stature of Narendra Modi in a calculated way.