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Dhaka plans fresh action to curb crimes

Bangladesh opposition leader Sheikh Hasina yesterday led a massive anti-government demonstration in Dhaka and told the people that the present tyrannical and autocratic government had lost every right to stay in power.

Dhaka amends flag rules

Awami determined to defy flag ban

Hundreds held in Bangladesh crackdown on crime, terror

Khaleda seeks help in fight against crime

Former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed yesterday appeared in a court in Dhaka and was granted bail in a corruption case involving a power plant project.

Khaleda government poised to mark first year in office

Bangladesh schools found wanting

Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaleda Zia said yesterday that her government will decentralise the administration, granting more powers to local government bodies in order to accelerate development.

With the population increasing by one million every three years, Dhaka will become the fourth populous city in the world by 2015.

Bangladesh's Foreign Secretary Shamser Mobin Chowdhury yesterday termed the Time magazine article on the country as "fiction" and "an orchestrated campaign" to hurt Bangladesh's democratic image.