The Agency to Innovate (a2i) bill was hurriedly passed on July 5

The government has decided to connect Bangladesh with a third submarine cable to meet the demand for rapidly growing data

Bangladesh is failing to attract foreign investment, particularly from European countries, because of a lack of policies and regulations to ensure data security, ICT and Telecom Minister Mustafa Jabbar said yesterday.

The government is hurriedly installing a system to monitor social media, and filter and block “malicious and objectionable content” ahead of the elections.

The government will sit and take opinions from the concerned people of the media who raised objections regarding the proposed Digital Security Act- 2018, ICT Minister Mustafa Jabbar says.

Bangladesh will export mobile sets within next two years as several plants have started rolling to assemble smart devices, Telecom and ICT Minister Mustafa Jabbar says.

Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology Minister Mustafa Jabbar says a digital system for formulating and distributing question papers might prevent their leakage.

Newly appointed ICT Minister Mustafa Jabbar yesterday said his main agenda was to reduce internet usage charges and improve its service quality.