11.   The government has taken up an extensive rehabilitation programme in three hill districts under Forest and Environment Directorate.

12.   The government, in principle, endorsed the programmes prescribed in the report made by a recent UNDP mission sent to the hill districts.

13.   The speakers warned that no NGO will be allowed to carry on its activities in the hill district if the Bengali settlers are not rehabilitated properly.

14.   Tribal leaders have been critical of the government for including three Muslim settlers in the council set up to run the affairs of the three hill districts.

15.   Tribal rebels ambushed a group of border guards Sunday in a southern Bangladesh hill district, killing at least two of them, a military official said.

16.   Earlier peace talks were held at Khagrachhari hill district.

17.   Earlier peace talks mostly took place in remote venues in Khagrachari hill district.

18.   The peace talks are the first in more than a year to seek a solution to the two-decade old insurgency in the southeastern hill districts.

19.   The participants at the conference also warned against withdrawing the armed forces from the hill districts of Banderban, Khagrachari and Rangamati, bordering India and Burma.

20.   The residents of the eight hill districts have denounced the job quota plan and demanded the formation of a separate state called Uttarakhand.