A TASK force that the government instituted in September 2024 submitted its report, Re-strategising the Economy and Mobilising Resources for Equitable and Sustainable Development, on January 30. The task force, composed of 12 members, in the sixth chapter of the report titled 鈥楻eaping the Benefits of Demographic Dividends: Investment in...
The task force report on re-strategising the Economy and Mobilising Resources for Equitable and Sustainable Development said that Bangladesh can boost its economy by using innovation and R&D to diversify, improve productivity, and add value to its products...
Mobile phone operator Grameenphone has launched 鈥楪reen Grameenphone Centre鈥� in Sylhet鈥檚 Ambarkhana area, as first operator to serve their customers through an eco-friendly service centre...
Bangladesh Bank governor Ahsan H Mansur has claimed that Binimoy, the mobile financial services interoperability platform, was a shell company linked to Sajeeb Wazed Joy, son of ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina...
A total of 95 illegally imported mobile phones were seized on Sunday at Shah Amanat International Airport in Chattogram.聽
A man allegedly stabbed to death his 15-year-old daughter on Wednesday at Ghanashyampur village in Madhabpur upazila of Habiganj after 鈥榝ailing to keep her away mobile phone addiction鈥�.
Illegal sand lifters allegedly shot at a mobile court from a dredger extracting sand from an illegal sand quarry during a drive in the Meghna River in Raipur upazila of Narsingdi on Thursday...
The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission directed mobile network operators or MNOs to introduce unlimited internet packages, both in terms of validity and volume...
THE government鈥檚 having increased value-added tax and supplementary duty on more than a hundred products and services by way of two ordinances, promulgated on January 9, has rightly raised the call for the government to walk back the decision. The products and services that have become dearer include mobile talk time, internet usage, biscuit...
The Bangladesh Mobile Phone Consumers Association during a demonstration on Sunday said that the telecommunications sector would face severe crisis with imposition of new tariffs on mobile phone calls and internet services...
A RECENT report by the International Energy Agency brings attention to a pressing issue in the global electric vehicle market: affordability. While EVs often prove more cost-effective over their lifetimes, thanks to lower fuel and maintenance costs, the high upfront price remains a substantial barrier to widespread adoption, especially in emerging and developed markets...
Turkey has expressed keenness to invest in Bangladesh鈥檚 various sectors, including renewable energy, automobile manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, information and communication technology, logistics and construction industry...
Telecom sector industry stakeholders said that the decision to increase the supplementary duty on mobile phone services by 3 per cent would hinder progress and widen the digital divide...
LIFE was not like this in the past. In our childhood, we saw many things that are not known to the children of the day. Or, I should say that we did not witness in our childhood what today鈥檚 children have been experiencing. It is not the common worries of life that I am trying to say here such as parenting and the schooling of children, mobile menace or...
A mobile court in Feni has fined nine brick kilns Tk 58 lakh and evicted two others for operating without the necessary environmental clearances...
Bangladesh has advanced a notch in its global ranking for mobile internet speed performance, according to Ookla鈥檚 Speedtest Global Index.
A mobile court in Satkhira realised Tk 7.5 lakh as fine from the owners of three brick kilns for manufacturing bricks without approval of the department of environment and various other irregularities in Sadar upazila...
Bangladesh has lately seen an escalation in the fatal mass beating incidents that killed 82 people between August 1 and November 30. Between January 1 and June 30, before the July-August mass uprising, 33 people died in mob beatings.
The Bangladesh Mobile Phone Consumers Association on Wednesday said that inclusion of citizens鈥� right to access internet always in the Cyber Security Ordinance 2024 was a victory for consumer rights.
The Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearance has found that the mobile surveillance system was used in pinpointing the location of the victims of the enforced disappearance in Bangladesh prior to picking them up secretly.
The police have returned 53 stolen mobile phones to their actual owners after recovery.
A total of 199 mobile court operations have been conducted across the country since November 3, collecting Tk 25,72,300 in fines on 414 establishments and the seizure of 50,556 kg of polythene shopping bags.
Two Awami League leaders were severely injured on Thursday in separate attacks in Sirajganj and Sylhet allegedly by leaders and activists of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party...
The administrator appointed by the Bangladesh Bank and his team are working to make Nagad, mobile financial service of the Bangladesh Postal Department, suitable for the future of Bangladesh, said a press release...
Two people were killed in a lynch-mob attack over an alleged buffalo theft in Ashtagram upazila of Kishoreganj Saturday morning...
A mobile court fined two dealers at Paba upazila in Rajshahi for hoarding more fertilisers than the permitted level and manipulating vouchers...
The Bangladesh Mobile Phone Consumers鈥� Association has urged the government to take immediate measures to curb the spread of rumours and provocative content on social media platforms such as Facebook and YouTube.
The volume of transactions through the mobile financial services increased in September for the second month...
Bangladesh has slipped a notch in its global ranking for mobile internet speed performance, according to Ookla鈥檚 Speedtest Global Index.
The Bangladesh Mobile Phone Consumer Association on Sunday called for a public hearing on recently drafted non-geostationary orbit satellite services operator licensing guideline...