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KOLKATA: As the Bangladesh economy develops, the country is facing a growing power demand. For augmenting power generation, Bangladesh intends to undertake nuclear energy development on a big scale. Construction of the first nuclear power plant is to begin next year.

It is strange when the BJP is getting the prodigal sons and daughters back in its fold, the former Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa is threatening to break away and launch his own outfit. Madhya Pradesh firebrand leader Uma Bharti, who floated her own outfit, has realized her mistake and has come back to the BJP last year. Former U.P. chief minister of the Ayodhya fame, Kalyan Singh, is about rejoin the BJP very soon. There are other smaller leaders who also might return.

Guess what’s trending on the Bangla Twitter? What did you say, there’s no such thing? Ugh, for the love of ileesh, have you been living under a rock? After Bengalimatromony.com, Bangla Twitter and Banglabook (especially for the buxom Bongololonas) have followed. Because Mamata Banerjee has decided to oust all the CPM supporters from Facebook and Twitter and she has also criminalized ‘not liking’ or ‘unliking’ her elaborate Facebook updates.

He was only in pursuit of little green men. He wanted to get to the bottom of the existential crisis that flying saucers have been facing ever since they popped up in public imagination in the 1950s — to be or not be real. British computer tinkerer Gary McKinnon was a man with a mission: to prove the existence of UFOs. This was in February 2001, before America witnessed the shock and horror of 9/11 and made security related paranoia a national pastime.

KOLKATA: At a time when China is deeply embroiled over maritime rights disputes with Japan, Viet Nam and the Philippines, Myanmar and Bangladesh are all set to launch oil exploration programmes in the Bay of Bengal region, by mutual consent.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: V. S. Achuthanandan won’t be denied his ‘right to dissent’. That is the unmistakable message his open ‘self-criticism’ at a press conference beams.

The name of Arvind Kejriwal’s political party will soon be announced and it may be akin to his pronounced objective: Indian Against Corruption. But the fact remains that his anti-corruption crusade will not get him votes. In today’s India, it is not just roti, kapda, makaan or even bijli, pani, sadak but also security, jobs and access to better life that matter most. The expectations of voters have been increasing; hurling accusations at the people may get screaming headlines, but will this translate into votes? One seriously doubts it.

BHOPAL: Shivraj Singh Chauhan, 52, is the longest-serving non-Congress Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh. He completes seven years in office next month. Known for his soft manners and non-confrontationist demeanour, Chauhan has won appreciation for his novel schemes for protection of girl child and his direct interaction with various sections of the populace through 'Panchayats' held at his residence.

The government may disagree, but it has got its reform priorities all wrong. It has opened up the country’s services sector – banking, insurance, stock market, mutual funds, private equity funds, pension funds, wholesale and retail trade, shipping and domestic civil aviation – to multinational investors (FDI and FII) and foreign operators before building a strong vibrant industrial sector, hallmark of any healthy economy. The industrial growth rate is sinking and so is economic growth. Imports are rising at unsustainable levels. The liberalised FDI regime in domestic services sector is bound to make the situation worse for the economy with the industrial production index languishing.