ข่าวเศรษฐกิจประจำวันที่ 17 กุมภาพันธ์ 2554
NEW DELHI, February 17 – HINDUSTAN TIMES – The Delhi Police on Thursday claimed that the car bomb attack on an Israeli diplomat in the city three days ago and the three blasts in Bangkok a day later were unrelated. A senior Delhi Police officer probing the car blast said the inference had been drawn on the basis of investigation details from the Bangkok blasts shared by the Thailand police. The officer said the sticky bomb put on 42-year-old Tal Yehoshua Koren’s Israeli embassy vehicle had traces of potassium chlorate — a low-grade nitrate compound — and no shrapnel. Traces of a “magnetic substance” were also found. “But as per information provided by intelligence agencies in liaison with Bangkok, the bombs there had high quality plastic explosives, iron filings, nails and glass shards used as shrapnel,” the officer said.
THE HINDU – Investigations into the Israeli Embassy car blast case took a new turn on Thursday following the Bangkok Police's assertion that suspected terrorists arrested there had used explosives similar to the one employed in the Delhi explosion on Monday. The Delhi Police are awaiting a formal report from the CBI's Central Forensic Science Laboratory on the nature of explosives used in the improvised magnetic device. Given that a module of foreign nationals was active in Bangkok, agencies here are screening the data on foreigners who have entered the country in the recent past. The local police have also been instructed to carry out checks in guesthouses and hotels and conduct verification to gather information “primarily on foreign nationals” who were staying or had stayed there in the past weeks. The focus of the exercise is to identify those with suspicious movements.
FINANCIAL EXPRESS – In a statement yesterday, World Bank said that its President Robert B Zoellick has announced that he would step down at the end of a five-year term in which a transformed Bank played an historic role during the global economic crisis, using record replenishments to provide more than USD 247 billion to help developing countries boost growth and overcome poverty. Zoellick informed the Bank's Board on Wednesday morning of his decision.
BUSINESS STANDARD – Giving relief to India’s seafood exports sector, the US Department of Commerce (DoC) has cut anti-dumping duty on frozen shrimp exports to nil. The decision will be effective from next year, when the seventh administrative review on anti-dumping duty completes in March 2013. DoC is modifying its method of calculating the weighted-average dumping margins and anti-dumping duty assessment rate. Currently, it compares the transaction-specific export prices and average normal values to arrive at the value of dumping. However, DoC does not offset the amount of dumping.
BUSINESS STANDARD – Israel has lodged a complaint before the United Nations (UN) chief over the alleged terror campaign launched by Iran and its “proxy” Hezbollah against Israeli targets in recent weeks, including in India and Thailand. This campaign bears the unmistakable fingerprints of the Iranian regime and the highest echelons of the Hezbollah leadership. “Their actions constitute a clear threat to security and stability of Lebanon, to the Middle East, and to many countries that have been targetted,” Israel’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ron Proser, said in a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. In each of these instances in Thailand, India, Bulgaria, Georgia and Azerbaijan, the letter said, Iran and Hezbollah have “sought to harm innocent civilians and have flagrantly violated the sovereignty of member states.”
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