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New Delhi has also clarified it had no concerns over the security of the High Commissioner or any of its diplomats in Bangladesh.

“Our High Commission is in touch with Bangladeshi authorities who are investigating the case, so let us wait for the outcome of those investigations, before jumping to any conclusion, whether it was at all an attack related to the High Commission,” Syed Akbaruddin, spokesperson of the Indian Government’s Ministry of External Affairs, told journalists in New Delhi on Saturday.

Saran was having a meeting on the Khulna Chamber of Commerce and Industries premises when three bombs exploded close to his car parked nearby.

The Ministry of External Affairs of India said the car did not belong to the High Commission of India in Dhaka, but had been hired by it. As per our information, yesterday while the High Commissioner was attending a function in Khulna, there were crude bomb explosions approximately 20 meters away from where his car was parked. As per our information, nobody involved with the High Commission was either injured, nor was the car damaged in any way,” Akbaruddin told media persons in response to a query on the incident.

Meanwhile, Sub Inspector Md Zafar Ahmed of the Khulna Sadar Police Station has filed a General Diary over the explosions on Saturday, station’s Officer in Charge Shahabuddin Azad has said.

The Indian MEA Spokesman said that the High Commissioner had gone ahead with his engagements in Khulna even after the explosions.

Despite Fayyad's reputation for clean dealing in the West

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Witnesses said Saran entered the Khulna Chamber building at around 7:30pm to share views with the chamber on ways to develop bilateral trade. The bombs went off soon after, they added.

Top pfficials of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and police visited the scene.

OC Azad said efforts were on to track down the assailants and arrest them.

Saran, however, declined comment.

Earlier in the afternoon, Saran distributed assistance among the Sidr-affected people at the Morelganj Municipality auditorium in Bagerhat district.

He is staying at the City Inn Hotel in Khulna and scheduled to start for Dhaka on Saturday morning.

In November 1975, Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka Samar Sen was seriously injured in an attack towards the end of his tenure in Dhaka. But Sen refused Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's offer to be evacuated to Kolkata by an Indian helicopter.

He insisted he had full faith in Bangladeshi doctors, who finally cured him and Sen went on to serve as India's permanent representative to the UN. He died in 2003 at the age of 89.

In May 21, 2004, the British High Commissioner to Dhaka Anwar Choudhury survived an unsuccesful grenade attack on him by suspected Islamic radicals.
Palestinian officials voiced optimism on Sunday the resignation of US-backed Prime Minister Salam Fayyad would not hinder Washington's planned development initiative for the West Bank.
Fayyad quit on Saturday after months of tension with President Mahmoud Abbas, leaving the Palestinian Authority, which exercises limited self-rule in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, in confusion just as the United States tries to revive peace talks with the Jewish state.

His departure comes less than a week after US Secretary of State John Kerry visited him and announced that Washington would put together a plan to remove the "bottlenecks and barriers" to economic development in the West Bank. The US-educated Fayyad, a former World Bank official, was appointed in 2007 and drew praise from the West for his efforts to develop institutions fit for a future Palestinian state. But his popularity among average citizens sank steadily amid 25 percent unemployment and soaring prices.

Palestinian officials said Fayyad, long trusted by the West as a non-corrupt conduit for its aid funds, would not be handling the US development plan in his capacity as interim caretaker prime minister.

But, one official said, "everyone knows that aid is meant for the Palestinian people, and not just one man", and implementation of the initiative would be monitored by President Mahmoud Abbas and "a team of his choosing".

Hanan Ashrawi, a senior official in the Palestine Liberation Organisation, said Fayyad's resignation was a matter of internal politics and should have no bearing on Western efforts to shore up the Palestinian economy.

"It would be counterproductive and flagrant meddling to punish us for what was a domestic political decision, and something that was long in the making," Ashrawi said.



Abbas and his Fatah party had long wrangled with Fayyad, an independent, over his handling of the moribund economy. The deficit and public debt have deepened amid World Bank predictions that growth rates of 11 percent in 2010-11 would fall by half in 2013.

A poll this month put Fayyad's approval rating at just 25 percent, compared with 49 percent for Abbas and 40 percent for Ismail Haniyeh, the Islamist Hamas party's prime minister in the Gaza Strip.

Despite Fayyad's reputation for clean dealing in the West, 78 percent of West Bank residents perceived Palestinian Authority institutions to be corrupt, according the same survey by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research.

"Thank God he's finally gone," said Khaled Ashraf, a restaurateur in Ramallah. "Sure there was some growth, but it's all done now, and just like usual the people aren't better off."

Some Palestinian officials credited Fayyad with progress, but said he faced long odds of reviving an economy under Israeli occupation and dwindling aid flows.

The Hamas government in Gaza, which split from Fatah in a bloody 2007 war, despised Fayyad, whom it regarded as complicit in Israel's blockade on the coastal enclave and a usurper of Hamas's claim to the

compared with 49 percent for Abbas

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Witnesses said Saran entered the Khulna Chamber building at around 7:30pm to share views with the chamber on ways to develop bilateral trade. The bombs went off soon after, they added.

Top pfficials of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and police visited the scene.

OC Azad said efforts were on to track down the assailants and arrest them.

Saran, however, declined comment.

Earlier in the afternoon, Saran distributed assistance among the Sidr-affected people at the Morelganj Municipality auditorium in Bagerhat district.

He is staying at the City Inn Hotel in Khulna and scheduled to start for Dhaka on Saturday morning.

In November 1975, Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka Samar Sen was seriously injured in an attack towards the end of his tenure in Dhaka. But Sen refused Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's offer to be evacuated to Kolkata by an Indian helicopter.

He insisted he had full faith in Bangladeshi doctors, who finally cured him and Sen went on to serve as India's permanent representative to the UN. He died in 2003 at the age of 89.

In May 21, 2004, the British High Commissioner to Dhaka Anwar Choudhury survived an unsuccesful grenade attack on him by suspected Islamic radicals.
Palestinian officials voiced optimism on Sunday the resignation of US-backed Prime Minister Salam Fayyad would not hinder Washington's planned development initiative for the West Bank.
Fayyad quit on Saturday after months of tension with President Mahmoud Abbas, leaving the Palestinian Authority, which exercises limited self-rule in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, in confusion just as the United States tries to revive peace talks with the Jewish state.

His departure comes less than a week after US Secretary of State John Kerry visited him and announced that Washington would put together a plan to remove the "bottlenecks and barriers" to economic development in the West Bank. The US-educated Fayyad, a former World Bank official, was appointed in 2007 and drew praise from the West for his efforts to develop institutions fit for a future Palestinian state. But his popularity among average citizens sank steadily amid 25 percent unemployment and soaring prices.

Palestinian officials said Fayyad, long trusted by the West as a non-corrupt conduit for its aid funds, would not be handling the US development plan in his capacity as interim caretaker prime minister.

But, one official said, "everyone knows that aid is meant for the Palestinian people, and not just one man", and implementation of the initiative would be monitored by President Mahmoud Abbas and "a team of his choosing".

Hanan Ashrawi, a senior official in the Palestine Liberation Organisation, said Fayyad's resignation was a matter of internal politics and should have no bearing on Western efforts to shore up the Palestinian economy.

"It would be counterproductive and flagrant meddling to punish us for what was a domestic political decision, and something that was long in the making," Ashrawi said.



Abbas and his Fatah party had long wrangled with Fayyad, an independent, over his handling of the moribund economy. The deficit and public debt have deepened amid World Bank predictions that growth rates of 11 percent in 2010-11 would fall by half in 2013.

A poll this month put Fayyad's approval rating at just 25 percent, compared with 49 percent for Abbas and 40 percent for Ismail Haniyeh, the Islamist Hamas party's prime minister in the Gaza Strip.

Despite Fayyad's reputation for clean dealing in the West, 78 percent of West Bank residents perceived Palestinian Authority institutions to be corrupt, according the same survey by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research.

"Thank God he's finally gone," said Khaled Ashraf, a restaurateur in Ramallah. "Sure there was some growth, but it's all done now, and just like usual the people aren't better off."

Some Palestinian officials credited Fayyad with progress, but said he faced long odds of reviving an economy under Israeli occupation and dwindling aid flows.

The Hamas government in Gaza, which split from Fatah in a bloody 2007 war, despised Fayyad, whom it regarded as complicit in Israel's blockade on the coastal enclave and a usurper of Hamas's claim to the

Thank God he's finally gone

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Abbas and his Fatah party had long wrangled with Fayyad, an independent, over his handling of the moribund economy. The deficit and public debt have deepened amid World Bank predictions that growth rates of 11 percent in 2010-11 would fall by half in 2013.

A poll this month put Fayyad's approval rating at just 25 percent, compared with 49 percent for Abbas and 40 percent for Ismail Haniyeh, the Islamist Hamas party's prime minister in the Gaza Strip.

Despite Fayyad's reputation for clean dealing in the West, 78 percent of West Bank residents perceived Palestinian Authority institutions to be corrupt, according the same survey by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research.

"Thank God he's finally gone," said Khaled Ashraf, a restaurateur in Ramallah. "Sure there was some growth, but it's all done now, and just like usual the people aren't better off."

Some Palestinian officials credited Fayyad with progress, but said he faced long odds of reviving an economy under Israeli occupation and dwindling aid flows.

The Hamas government in Gaza, which split from Fatah in a bloody 2007 war, despised Fayyad, whom it regarded as complicit in Israel's blockade on the coastal enclave and a usurper of Hamas's claim to the

ECONOMIC WOES

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His departure comes less than a week after US Secretary of State John Kerry visited him and announced that Washington would put together a plan to remove the "bottlenecks and barriers" to economic development in the West Bank. The US-educated Fayyad, a former World Bank official, was appointed in 2007 and drew praise from the West for his efforts to develop institutions fit for a future Palestinian state. But his popularity among average citizens sank steadily amid 25 percent unemployment and soaring prices.

Palestinian officials said Fayyad, long trusted by the West as a non-corrupt conduit for its aid funds, would not be handling the US development plan in his capacity as interim caretaker prime minister.

But, one official said, "everyone knows that aid is meant for the Palestinian people, and not just one man", and implementation of the initiative would be monitored by President Mahmoud Abbas and "a team of his choosing".

Hanan Ashrawi, a senior official in the Palestine Liberation Organisation, said Fayyad's resignation was a matter of internal politics and should have no bearing on Western efforts to shore up the Palestinian economy.

"It would be counterproductive and flagrant meddling to punish us for what was a domestic political decision, and something that was long in the making," Ashrawi said.



Abbas and his Fatah party had long wrangled with Fayyad, an independent, over his handling of the moribund economy. The deficit and public debt have deepened amid World Bank predictions that growth rates of 11 percent in 2010-11 would fall by half in 2013.

A poll this month put Fayyad's approval rating at just 25 percent, compared with 49 percent for Abbas and 40 percent for Ismail Haniyeh, the Islamist Hamas party's prime minister in the Gaza Strip.

Despite Fayyad's reputation for clean dealing in the West, 78 percent of West Bank residents perceived Palestinian Authority institutions to be corrupt, according the same survey by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research.

"Thank God he's finally gone," said Khaled Ashraf, a restaurateur in Ramallah. "Sure there was some growth, but it's all done now, and just like usual the people aren't better off."

Some Palestinian officials credited Fayyad with progress, but said he faced long odds of reviving an economy under Israeli occupation and dwindling aid flows.

The Hamas government in Gaza, which split from Fatah in a bloody 2007 war, despised Fayyad, whom it regarded as complicit in Israel's blockade on the coastal enclave and a usurper of Hamas's claim to the premiership after it swept parliamentary polls in 2006.

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