India's inexorably growing power crisis is a bottleneck that threatens to hobble its overall growth rate.

An estimate of the age of the ocean was obtained by diving the total salt in the ocean by the rate of salt added each year.

BTPN's breakneck expansion is bound to slow this year, though Mr Ng predicts the bank's overall loan-growth rates will still be in the high 20s (from 48% in 2010).