The Election Commission (EC) has formed an investigation team to prevent propaganda, fake news and rumors in social networking sites ahead of the 11th parliamentary election slated for December 30.
The office order to formulate a high-level 8-member monitoring cell was issued on Wednesday (December 19).
From now on, the cell will monitor propaganda related to electoral issues on Facebook and in social network...
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Facebook has removed hundreds of pages and accounts in Myanmar with hidden links to the military, the platform said on Wednesday, as the company scrambles to respond to criticism over failures to control hate speech and m...
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Bangladesh team won one gold medal, two highly-commended medals and one technical medal in the 20th International Robot Olympiad (IRO) held in Philippines from December 15-19.
This was the first time Bangladesh was represented at the IRO. Kazi Mustadid Labib and Tasfir Tahrim from Chittagong Grammar School (Dhaka) and Md Meher Mahmud from Maple Leaf I...
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Facebook has rolled out Boomerang and Selfie features in its Messenger platform. Alongside, it has also introduced new AR stickers
"Starting today, there are now five modes to Messenger's camera including everyone's favourite video-looping effect, Boomerang, to make Messenger post...
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The Ruling Awami League vowed, in its election manifesto revealed on Tuesday (December 18), to launch 5G as well as cheapen internet price if they are voted to power.
”We, if given the mandate to rule the state, will launch 5G by 2021-23. Internet price and mobile call rate will be...
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Back in April, YouTube had launched a quarterly YouTube Community Guidelines Enforcement Report as part of this ongoing commitment to transparency. Further to the commitment, the company is now expanding the report to include additional data like channel removals, the number of comments removed, and the policy reason why a video or...
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Sadid Bin Hasan from Bangladesh along with his team ‘SpaceTrove’ recently won the NASA Space Apps Challenge 2018. He will be representing San Francisco and Mountain View (California) in the Global Round of NASA Space Challenge....
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A top executive of Chinese telecoms giant Huawei Technologies Co Ltd was granted bail by a Canadian court on Tuesday, 10 days after her arrest in Vancouver at the request of US authorities that sparked a diplomatic dispute.
Meng Wanzhou, Huawei’s [HWT.UL] chief fina...
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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has taken over ministries of science and technology, and telecommunications and information technology as extra duty.
Besides, Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain will discharge duty as minister of expatriate welfare and overseas employment ministry and Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque will take over t...
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Subscribers of number series-725 under Khilgaon Telephone Exchange will be switched into 8-digit format under series-4721.
The change will begin gradually from Dec 17.
Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited (BTCL) General Manager (PR & Publications) Meer Morshed confirmed the matter.
The subscribers will be...
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Seven more companies were allotted land at the industrial zone of Bangabandhu Hi-Tech City in Gazipur.
Bangladesh Hi-Tech Park Authority (BHTPA) handed over...
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