The National Board of Revenue has initiated a plan to digitalise its tax audit selection process, replacing the long-standing manual method, to eliminate human interference and restore taxpayer confidence...
IN AN increasingly interconnected world, outsourcing public services to foreign entities has become a growing global trend. Bangladesh, like many other nations, is embracing this shift, as seen in its recent decision to assign the printing and issuance of driving licenses to Madras IT. This decision, however, prompts a larger question: How much control...
The interim government has announced the withdrawal of all cases filed under the cybercrime laws during the 15-year tenure of Sheikh Hasina, who resigned as prime minister and fled to India on August 5 amid a student-mass uprising...
The government has appointed Muhammad Syed Ali, deputy secretary of central digital cell of the commerce ministry, as administrator of the e-Commerce Association of Bangladesh...
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has urged the low- and middle-income countries to bridge the digital divide, tackle regulatory capacity and compliance issues to take...
The United States said Friday that it has requested dispute settlement talks with Canada over a recently introduced digital services tax...
Employees of Expressions Limited, Express Events and Digital Expressions 鈥� referred to as Expressions Family, made donations to the Chief Adviser鈥檚 Relief and Welfare Fund on Tuesday, said a press release...
The Bangladesh Bank governor Ahsan H Mansur on Thursday said that the digital banking license for Nagad Digital Bank PLC was suspended and the central bank would review the process...
If 2024 already looks like an annus horribilis for big tech in the EU, the months ahead could prove a winter of discontent as the bloc wields a fortified new legal armoury to bring online titans to heel...
Bangladesh Bank has requested the foreign ministry to provide information of five foreign sponsor shareholders of Nagad Digital Bank PLC...
Crime has increased across Bangladesh following the fall of the Sheikh Hasina regime amid mass uprising on August 5; many communities therefore are forced to be at the forefront of safeguarding their neighborhoods in the absence of law enforcers...
The Editors鈥� Council on Monday in a statement urged the interim government to remove the obstacles to independent journalism.
Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services urged the interim government to repeal the Cyber Security Act 2023...
Mutual Trust Bank PLC has been named the 鈥楤est digital bank in Bangladesh鈥� for 2024 by Euromoney, said a press release...
Dozens of countries have finalised years of negotiations towards a 鈥榞roundbreaking鈥� agreement drawing up global digital trade rules, Britain said Friday.
Mutual Trust Bank PLC has been named 鈥楳ost Innovative Digital Bank 鈥� Bangladesh 2024鈥� by International Finance, said a press release....
Akash Digital TV, Bangladesh鈥檚 only DTH Pay TV operator, owned by Beximco Communications Limited, announced the launch of a new DTH HD platform together with a pioneering Akash Go Companion App along with My Akash Self Care App that would shape the future for world class media and entertainment and transform the TV viewing and user experiences and access to premium content in Bangladesh, said a press release on Tuesday...
State minister for finance Waseqa Ayesha Khan on Monday said that international trade digitalisation would play an important role in expansion of international trade and ensuring sustainable and inclusive development of Bangladesh....
The amount of internet banking transactions in Bangladesh has doubled over the past year, reflecting an increase in adoption of digital financial technologies...
THE observations that Transparency International Bangladesh has made on the Cyber Security Rules 2004 鈥� consequent on the Cyber Security Act 2003 passed in September 2023 鈥� suggest that the government has not made the course correction that it needed even after repeated criticism of the law by the well-meaning section of society...
The Bangladesh Bank on Monday approved a banking licence for Nagad Digital Bank PLC, the first full-fledged digital bank in Bangladesh, and listed it as...
World Telecommunication and Information Society Day will be celebrated in the country today with the theme 鈥楧igital Innovation for Sustainable Development鈥�...
The Cyber Tribunal in Dhaka聽on Monday sentenced Tithy Sarker, a suspended student of Jagannath University, to five years imprisonment in a case filed under the Digital Security Act on November 5, 2020, for making derogatory remarks about Islam on social media...
Researchers and civil rights campaigners, in a webinar on Tuesday, called for the formation of an independent commission to examine the justification of filing thousands of cases under the Digital Security Act in the span of five years started from 2018...
Police submitted a charge sheet against online activist Pinaki Bhattacharya and former joint secretary of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, Mofizur Rahman Ashik, in a case filed in 2022 under the Digital Security Act 2018...
Cashless payments or digital transactions have seen a significant surge across the country in recent years, thanks to the adoption of various digital payment methods including credit cards, debit cards, and app-based and QR code-based dealings...
