Bangladesh has achieved a major milestone in its digital transformation journey, with more than 5 million income tax returns submitted online through a locally developed e-Return platform, marking the country’s first fully digital tax return cycle for individual taxpayers. The platform, deve
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday he would ban social media sites for under-16s and impose restrictions on gaming and live-streaming platforms, in a fightback against big tech that goes further than any other country. The sweeping changes will “give kids their childhood back
A quiet digital transformation is reshaping the way tea estate workers in northern Bangladesh receive and manage their earnings. Several hundred workers at Kazi & Kazi Tea Estate in Panchagarh are now receiving their wages through bKash's digital payroll solution, reducing their dependence on ca
For more than two decades up till now, buying a mobile-phone connection in Bangladesh would come with an unusual price tag: a government-imposed SIM tax that every new subscriber had to pay before making a single call or sending a single message. A remedy is, hopefully, in sight. The levy had surv
After an outage that lasted nearly an hour, service has been restored to the Meta social media platforms of Facebook, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram. Several media outlets reported a widespread outage on Meta platforms from 7:21pm on Friday Bangladesh time. Service was reportedly restored arou
Facebook and several other Meta-owned platforms experienced a widespread outage, affecting apps and websites across the world. News portals said the disruption rendered the platforms inaccessible to users. Some users were reportedly automatically logged out of their accounts during the outage. A
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is set to announce a ban on "harmful" online platforms for children under 16 while maintaining access to some safer forms of social media, the Times newspaper reported on Monday. Starmer, who is due to make a speech later on Monday, is said to have decide
Apple on Monday rolled out a long-delayed overhaul of Siri, betting the upgraded assistant can help close the gap with Big Tech rivals and new-age startups in the crucial AI race. The revamp, unveiled at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference in Cupertino, California, introduces “Siri AI
The government has moved to amend the Cyber Security Act to tackle the spread of rumours, misinformation, defamatory content and AI-generated misleading images, videos and audio on social media platforms, Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed has told Parliament. On Monday, he said provisions will also b
Thailand’s consumer watchdog said it will sue Meta’s Facebook for allegedly allowing scammers to use the platform to defraud users through adverts and for failing to protect consumers, the Consumer Council said on Thursday. Meta did not immediately respond to a Reuters request f
