In Assam's second incident of police firing in as many days, one person was killed and at least 10 injured in Sonitpur district Tuesday. The fresh trouble broke out even as curfew continued in Goalpara district where the death toll from Monday's police firing rose to four with the discovery of two more bodies.

As tension continued in Rakshasini area of Goalpara district, where a mob clashed with police and security forces Monday over the recovery of a body, trouble erupted Tuesday morning near a power station of the Power Grid Corporation India Limited (PGCIL) at Baghmari near Tezpur in Sonitpur. 

According to state Home Secretary G.D. Tripathy, the tension started after officials of the power station wanted to close a road through the campus being used by people from neighbouring villages. 

"Hundreds of people came out to the streets to oppose the move of the power station officials. As police tried to contain the situation, people charged at the police. 

"After the initial attempt to control the situation with lathi charge and firing of rubber bullets failed, police fired bullets, leading to the death of one and injuries to over 10 others," Tripathy told IANS.

"There were two roads through the campus of the power station, one of which had been closed a few days back. However, after providing an alternate road, officials tried to close this second road today. This move infuriated the locals for some reason and led to the untoward incident today," he said.

The situation, he added, was being monitored closely and was under control now.

In Goalpara, the death toll increased to four with police recovering two more bodies from the violence-hit areas late Monday, police said. 

Of the four, two were killed in police firing two are suspected to have been killed by the crowds. 

Of the two bodies recovered late Monday, one was hacked and the other was charred, Tripathy said. 

"We recovered their bodies late Monday and it is believed that the agitated mob attacked these two people and killed them during the violence." 

"We have decided not to lift the curfew as tension is simmering in the area. We do not want to take a risk and want to ensure that the violence do not take any communal colour," he said.

The home secretary said additional forces had been sent to the violence affected areas of Goalpara district Monday to help police in controlling the situation.

Irate crowds had begun to gather in the area after the recovery of the body of Taher Ali, who had been missing since Sunday evening.

"People from the area people attacked policemen who reached the spot to recover the body, which was buried. Hundreds of locals pelted stones at police and damaged their vehicles," a police official had said Monday. 

To disperse the crowd, police resorted to firing that led to the death of two people on the spot and injury to others, he said.

One of the Australian DJs who made a hoax call about the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge has said she will appear at the inquest into the death of the nurse who answered the phone. 

Jacintha Saldanha, 46, was found hanged in nurses' quarters in central London three days after the call.

Mel Greig said she was "determined to answer any questions surrounding her role in these tragic events" and would appear in person or by video link.

The inquest will be held in September.

It had been due to begin on 2 May but a spokeswoman for Westminster Coroner's Court said it had been adjourned until 12 September.

Greig and fellow 2Day FM DJ Michael Christian sparked widespread condemnation in December when they were put through to the duchess's ward after phoning the King Edward VII's Hospital in Marylebone, posing as the Prince of Wales and the Queen.

The duchess was receiving care for an extreme form of morning sickness.

"Greig wants the family to know she will answer any questions”

Saldanha, a mother of two from Bristol, answered the phone and transferred the pair to a colleague who detailed the duchess's condition.

In a statement, Greig's lawyers, Slater & Gordon, said her thoughts had been with the nurse's family ever since her death.

"Greig fully understands their need for answers, which is why she has taken this step to appear as an individual at the inquest.

"She is determined to address any questions surrounding her role in these tragic events as part of the inquest.

"Greig wants the family to know she will answer any questions the coroner or the family's lawyers may have."

Greig, who has not returned to the airwaves since the call, said she would appear at the inquest either in person or by video link.

Christian - who resumed broadcasting in February - has said he does not intend to make an individual statement.

Announcing details of the inquest last month, Coroner Dr Fiona Wilcox said she had granted anonymity to a duty nurse who might have been one of the last people to speak to Saldanha on the night of the prank call.

Reported by the BBC

Pakistan has seen a spike in bomb attacks in the run-up to polls. At least eight people have been killed and more than 40 injured in a suicide bomb attack in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, officials say.

The blast took place on a busy road and hit a passenger bus, media reports say.

The bomber detonated the explosives after passing a police vehicle.

Such attacks have soared in Pakistan ahead of elections on 11 May, with dozens killed in attacks targeting politicians and political parties.

On Sunday, bomb attacks by the Taliban on the campaign offices of election candidates left at least eight people dead and 23 injured.

The Taliban have vowed to continue a campaign of attacks against political parties they see as secular.

Reports say that a bomb has also exploded near the home of an ANP candidate in the city of Mardan, damaging the wall of his compound.

No group has said it carried out this latest attack in Peshawar.

Television footage showed the damaged bus and motorcycle wreckage. The wounded were taken to hospitals in the city.

Correspondents say violence has marred the campaign for Pakistan's landmark election, in which one civilian government is due to be succeeded by another for the first time in the country's history.

Reported by the BBC

Rescue work on a collapsed building in Bangladesh has entered a sixth day, but officials say they no longer expect to find any survivors. Heavy lifting gear is now being used to raise slabs of concrete at the Rana Plaza garment factory, where at least 380 died after Wednesday's collapse.

PM Sheikh Hasina visited the site and some of the victims on Monday.

Several people, including the owner of the building, have been arrested in connection with the disaster.

At least 3,000 are estimated to have been in the Rana Plaza building when it collapsed. About 2,430 are now known to have survived but hundreds are dead or missing.

Some relatives of those missing complained that the prime minister had not spoken to them during her visit to the site.

"We could have talked to her, and she also could have listened to us," said Monowara Begum, the mother of one missing worker.

Sheikh Hasina also visited some of the survivors in hospital. Bangladesh news site BDNews24 said she had assured them they would receive help from the government.

An editorial in the Daily Star says it is "unfortunate" that Bangladeshi garment manufacturers "have convoluted the idea of 'competitive' and 'cheap'," and that workers are "bearing the brunt of this in terms of poor wages and through their lives".

Also in the Daily Star, Hameeda Hossain writes: "Even as we mourn the dead, whose poorly paid labour contributed to profits from Bangladesh' export garments, it is time to question why the state has repeatedly ignored violation of laws, why regulatory mechanisms fail to monitor systemic failures, why political patronage confers impunity for corporate crimes."

Muhammad Q Islam writes for bdnews24: "We still have a 47 million strong army of very poor people who will be willing to take all the risks that culminate in injury and death, both at home and abroad, to improve their lot. Our economic policies explicitly rely on continued availability of this work force to fuel our economic growth."

Fariha Sarawat says in the Dhaka Tribune that while buyers should take some moral responsibility for such disasters "the state aids and abates this hostile environment by repeatedly siding with the interests of the manufacturers, instead of the workers - it has failed to punish a single manufacturer whose negligence and greed have resulted in the death of workers".

On Sunday night, rescuers working deep inside the rubble were told to leave, as cranes were brought in to begin lifting the heavy blocks of fallen concrete.

"We are proceeding cautiously. If there is still a soul alive, we will try to rescue that person,'' army spokesman Shahinul Islam told reporters.

"We are giving the highest priority to saving people, but there is little hope of finding anyone alive."

Fire brigade chief Brig Gen Ali Ahmed Khan said crews had seen bodies lying on the ground inside, but that "no-one was seen alive".

Rescue co-ordinators said that work with heavy-lifting gear would be done carefully to avoid further collapses and to protect bodies trapped under the debris as much as possible.

A total population of some 150.4m, 88% under the age of 55.

GDP in 2012 was around $110bn - the ready-made garment (RMG) industry makes up 80% of all exports, totalling more than $15bn in 2012-13 financial year.

About four million people are directly employed in the RMG industry, most of them women, earning an average monthly salary of roughly $40.

On Sunday afternoon, the operation was halted when a fire broke out as sparks from a metal-cutter ignited scraps of fabric in the rubble. Four firefighters were taken to hospital.

The BBC's Anbarasan Ethirajan says rescuers had been trying to free a trapped woman for a number of hours when the fire began, but they later reported she had not survived the fire.

Also on Sunday, the building's owner, Mohammed Sohel Rana, was arrested, close to the Indian border.

He had been on the run since his eight-storey collapsed.

Bangladeshi TV later showed Mr Rana - a local leader of the youth wing of prime minister's Awami League party - in handcuffs after being flown back to Dhaka by helicopter.

He is accused of illegally adding three extra floors to the building and of telling workers to enter despite concerns being raised about cracks which had appeared in the walls.

At least seven people, including three owners of factories operating in the building, have now been arrested.

Bangladeshi media reports say the Mr Rana's father, Abdul Khalek, has also now been detained in connection with the collapse.

Anger at the building's collapse has triggered days of violent protests in Dhaka demanding those responsible be punished and for an improvement in factory conditions.

Garment industry workers across the country were given the weekend off, in the hope that the anger would fade.

But on Monday, thousands of workers walked out of factories in the Ashulia and Gazipur industrial districts shortly after they opened, and staged a protest march, reportedly setting fire to an ambulance.

Bangladesh has one of the largest garment industries in the world, providing cheap clothing for major Western retailers that benefit from its widespread low-cost labour.

But the industry has been widely criticised for its low pay and limited rights given to workers and for the often dangerous working conditions in garment factories.