The government on Monday said Facebook, most popular social media platform of the world, has consented to appoint a representative in Bangladesh and pay tax and VAT as per the local law. The verbal consent of the Facebook came at a high level meeting with Posts and Telecommunications Minister Mustafa Jabbar at BTRC auditorium today, according to a press release ...

They asked not to use social media during office hours Dhaka, Sept 22 : The Supreme Court Special Committee for Judicial Reforms has laid out a set of guidelines for judicial officials about using social media. They have been asked to shun social media during office hours (9:30am-4:30pm) and follow eight directives and avoid doing 11 things while using social ...

Rayhan Ahmed Topader: Digital conflict and military action are increasingly intertwined, and civilian targets  private businesses and everyday internet users alike are vulnerable in the digital crossfire. But there are forces at work trying to promote peace online. It will be a tough challenge: In May 2019, Israel responded to unspecified cyberattacks by Hamas with an immediate airstrike that destroyed ...

F R Chowdhury:   A few days back I wrote an article about Marine Academy in which I mentioned that our future is closely linked with sea. Thanks God, our government realized the matter and took every possible action to ensure that we get our due share of sea that the international convention UNCLOS-82 (UN Convention on the Laws of ...

Denmark, Sept 20 : Google is planning to invest 3 billion euros to expand its data centers across Europe in the next two years. The tech giant’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, says it will bring the company’s total investments in the continent’s internet infrastructure to 15 billion euros since 2007. Pichai met with Finnish Prime Minister Antii Rinne on Friday in ...

San Francisco, Sept 19 : Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will be in Washington Thursday to meet with lawmakers and talk about internet regulation. The company said the meetings are not public and it did not give details on whom Zuckerberg is meeting with and what, exactly, he’ll discuss. Facebook is under growing pressure from lawmakers and regulators concerned about how ...

  Fatema Miah: UK have plenty of matters on the table to deal with; home affairs, Brexit is a sharp point, the budget, decision making about the primary services to corporal and concern of Suitable Ministers to party candidates.  Simultaneously, UK must be careful about India and Pakistan political rivalry and it’s very  crutial and an alert matter that Britain ...

  Fatema Miah: Empire and power abuse went on together, it was power seeking a norm as a desire in the past centuries, what marked horrible chapters of serving cruelty against victims and history been written with pride of being abusively power exercising by some to their victims. Here,  let’s talk about Libya. In the past centuries, Battles and bloodshed ...

Apple embarks on an epic court battle with the EU on Tuesday, fighting the commission’s landmark order that the iPhone-maker reimburse Ireland 13 billion euros ($14 billion) in back taxes. Lawyers for the world’s biggest company will face EU officials in a Luxembourg court, challenging a decision that CEO Tim Cook slammed at the time as “total political crap”. The ...

  Rayhan Ahmed Topader:   Despite a string of stinging defeats in Parliament, and the painful, public resignation of his own brother, Prime Minister Boris Johnson continued his passionate push for an early general election he hopes would help him deliver Brexit by Oct. 31.Johnson cast his quest to bust Britain out of the European Union in defiant and populist ...