A seminar titled Digital Contents: Information, Risk and Ethics was held at Jahangirnagar University at Savar in Dhaka on Thursday, focusing on the ethical challenges and risks associated with the growing influence of digital information...
A new 10-member supporting committee has been formed to reactivate the activities of the Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services...
As the world observes World Development Information Day today, the occasion serves not as a celebration but as a profound summons to action. Established by the UN in 1972, its mandate is stark: to 鈥榙raw the attention of the world to development problems.鈥� This year, the day coincides with the 80th anniversary of the United Nations, themed 鈥楤uilding Our Future...
THE digital age has provided us with more information than any other time in history. News, video and images reach us in seconds. But along with this abundance comes a new crisis: how do we know what鈥檚 real? With artificial intelligence that can churn out human-like text, resize and create voices, and create deepfake videos capable of fooling the sharpest of eyes...
Private sector foreign loans will now come under central monitoring as Bangladesh Bank has instructed banks to report all such borrowings to its Credit Information Bureau (CIB) database...
Amid tight security measures, information and broadcasting adviser Mahfuj Alam attended two programmes in London on Friday smoothly, despite protests by a small group of Bangladeshis against his presence.
From manipulated images to out-of-context photos, false claims that Donald Trump is seriously ill 鈥� or even dead 鈥� have swirled online, with the misinformation persisting even after the US president publicly rejected it on Tuesday...
Chief Election Commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin on Thursday stressed the urgent need to combat disinformation...
Credit Rating Information and Services Limited has assigned 鈥楢AA鈥� credit rating to Peoples Insurance Company Limited, said a press release...
ON THE footpath outside the National Press Club, nearly 2,000 women have sat in for more than a month. They are information officers, or tathya apa, employed under a government project aimed at 鈥榚mpowering women through ICT鈥� across rural areas. As the second phase of the project comes to an end, so do their jobs, too. They demand regularisation of their job...
Bangladesh鈥檚 information and broadcasting ministry has taken a preliminary decision to establish the BCS Information Academy.
Efforts to vaccinate children against deadly diseases are faltering across the world due to economic inequality, Covid-era disruptions and misinformation, putting millions of lives at risk, research warned on Wednesday...
Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury continues to spread misinformation against Bangladesh and its interim government aiming to undermine the country鈥檚 democratic progress after fascism, chief adviser鈥檚 press wing has said.
Information and broadcasting adviser Mahfuj Alam came under attack on Wednesday night while speaking at a Jagannath University students鈥� sit-in in front of the Kakrail Mosque police barricade near the chief adviser鈥檚 official residence Jamuna in Dhaka.
India and Pakistan have announced a ceasefire after coming close to all-out conflict, but on social media citizens on both sides are vying to control public perceptions by peddling disinformation.
Pragati Life Insurance PLC has been awarded ISO 27001:2022 certification in recognition of its excellence in information security management systems, said a press release...
Bangladesh is set to implement the Sri Lankan model to combat and eliminate dengue.
Information and broadcasting adviser Mahfuj Alam on Monday said that there was no scope to fire a journalist from his job without service any notice...
Chief adviser鈥檚 special assistant to the ICT ministry Faiz Ahmad Taiyeb on Sunday warned about massive cyber attacks on the digital infrastructures and propagation of rumours and misinformation ahead of the national election...
Rumor Scanner, a fact-checking organisation in Bangladesh, identified 296 instances of misinformation circulating on the internet in April this year...
IN THE digital age, disinformation has emerged as a major challenge, affecting politics, public health, and social stability worldwide. Disinformation refers to deliberate falsehoods spread to mislead or manipulate people for political, economic, or ideological gain. Unlike misinformation, which is unintentionally incorrect, disinformation is crafted with intent and is often...
Secondary and Higher Education Division has requested students and guardians to stay aware of the rumours regarding Secondary School Certificate question leaks.
Information and broadcasting adviser Md Mahfuj Alam on Wednesday stressed on conducting a survey on listeners of Bangladesh Betar to make programmes of the state-run radio time-befitting in line with the listeners鈥� demand...
EVERY ministry, directorate, department, division, district and upazila administration office in Bangladesh now operates its own website. These websites were developed under the Access to Information programme of the former prime minister鈥檚 office, in collaboration with the Aspire to Innovation initiative of the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology...
Experts on Thursday urged to establish the Information Commission Bangladesh as an independent constitutional body to ensure its independence in strengthening democracy and accountability...
BANGLADESH is a dynamic and strategically significant nation, known for its struggles for language, democracy, and independence. Despite its potential to inspire globally, 53 years after independence, it has failed to establish a strong democratic framework or implement an independent foreign policy. While global democracy has expanded, Bangladesh has regressed...
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday accused Donald Trump of succumbing to Russian 鈥榙isinformation鈥�, deepening a rift between Kyiv and the new US administration...
Information adviser Mohammad Nahid Islam has indicated that he may step down from his government position to join a new political party if he feels that working directly with people is more important than serving in the government.
The Dhaka Stock Exchange on Thursday awarded financial information exchange certification, or FIX certification, to three brokerage houses to help them offer value-added services to their investors...
The Election Commission has found initial evidence of the leaking of national identity card information to third parties from five institutions having deals with the EC on using its database for verification purposes...
