<\/a>Revellers poured out into the streets singing and dancing and exploding crackers to usher in the year 2013 as the clock struck midnight past
\nMonday amid jubilation.
\nSecurity was heightened in Dhaka and other cities to fend off any untoward incidents during New Year celebrations.
\nHundreds of peoples, especially the youths, started thronging\u00a0Dhaka University campus, clubs and hotels and restaurants in the evening to bid farewell to 2012 and welcome the New Year, witnesses said.
\nThey greeted each other, handed in flowers, cards and other gifts to friends on the occasion.
\nPosh hotels and clubs hosted parties on the occasion featuring dance, fashion shows and concerns, among other programmes.
\nPresident Zillur Rahman, prime minister Sheikh Hasina and leader of the opposition in parliament Khaleda Zia issued messages greeting the countrymen and expatriate Bangladeshis on this occasion.
\nPresident Zillur Rahman said, \u2018I hope the New Year will bring progress, development, prosperity and happiness to our lives.\u2019
\nOn the Dhaka University campus hundreds of revelers joined the celebrations by singing, dancing, exploding and forming merry-go-round and beating drums as countdown began for bidding farewell to 2012 and welcome 2013.
\nThe city police imposed restrictions on carrying firearms and using explosive substances, especially firecrackers, reckless driving, loud honking, any activities hampering religious sentiments, and using loudhailers, the officials said.
\nSecurity measures were put in place for posh areas of the capital, including the diplomatic zones at Gulshan, Banani and Uttara. The lawmen set up checkpoints at strategic points in the capital.
\nA large number of the city dwellers earlier left Dhaka for different tourist spots. Hundreds of tourists crowded the Cox\u2019s Bazar sea beach.<\/p>\n

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