IT is disquieting to see that police has proposed change to some important safeguard provisions of Torture and Custodial Death (Prevention) Act, 2013. A prominent Bengali daily, Prothom Alo, has reported that the police authority has sent a proposal to Home Ministry to bring alterations in the definition, investigation process and punishment provisions stipulated in the Act.

Federal Bureau of Investigation is likely to come to Dhaka later this week to help with the investigations of murder of writer-blogger Avijit Roy, according to police

US police shot and killed a homeless man after an altercation in downtown Los Angeles.

A man has his wrist blown off in a blast while allegedly making crude bombs inside his residence in Gazipur

Police seize 33 handmade bombs and bomb making materials in the port city of Chittagong

The head of the United Nations Climate Change Panel (IPCC), Rajendra Pachauri, steps down amid sexual harassment allegations.

Two bullet-hit bodies of alleged BNP men is found in Jhenidah Sadar upazila this morning.