The government should ensure the rights of forest dwellers to the natural resources and the ownership of the forest in order to preserve forest, speakers at a regional conference said yesterday.

The government is planning to establish a separate investigation cell in police force for swift investigation in cases concerning violence against women.

The council of Chittagong South district unit of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is being held here separately today amid groupings and differences.

Speakers at a memorial meeting yesterday said late poet Sufia Kamal played a significant role in helping achieve a remarkable progress by women in society.

Rights activists at a national consultation yesterday said harmony in the laws related to trafficking and rescuing the victims in the Saarc countries is a must to repatriate the victims as well as to protect their rights.

Two people were killed and seven others injured in separate road accidents in Gazipur and Sirajganj yesterday.

The proposed Padma Bridge project can serve the nation doubly if the barrage component is incorporated into it, said a New York-based water resources expert Dr Sufian A Khondker yesterday.

President Zillur Rahman yesterday described the glorious contribution and supreme sacrifices of the members of Bangladesh Armed Forces during the War of Liberation in 1971 as a rare instance in the world history.

The mother who gave up her conjoined newborn twins for adoption said yesterday that she is overjoyed the toddlers have been successfully separated and wants them to grow up in Australia.

Media personality Shykh Seraj has been awarded the prestigious AH Boerma Award of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) for 2008-09.

Three non-government organisations -- Citizens Rights Movement, Seba and Green Voice -- formed a human chain in the city yeserday demanding scrapping of the duty-free car import facility for the Members of the Parliament.

Different organisations yesterday continued expressing satisfaction over verdict of the Supreme Court on the Bangabandhu murder case.

Police recovered a body of an unidentified youth from a drain in front of Sony Cinema Hall at Mirpur in the city yesterday.

Speakers at a seminar yesterday called on the policymakers of different television channels to produce more quality, constructive and educative programmes for betterment of the country and its people.

Shamim Ahmad, chief of correspondents of UNB, and Pathik Saha, chief reporter of Bhorer Dak, were re-elected president and general secretary of Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU) yesterday.

Speakers at a function in the city yesterday called for giving state recognition to eminent photojournalist late Mohammad Alam for his outstanding performance and professionalism.

The authorities yesterday decided to shift local bus services from Mawa ghat to Mawa crossing from November 25 for smooth movement of traffic on the road and comfortable journey of the home-bound people of southern region ahead of Eid.

Fire gutted huge quantities of properties of a spinning mill near Golakandail Gausia Market under Rupganj upazila in Narayanganj yesterday.