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From about 1 pm Bangladesh time on 25 October, two and a half billion people could not send a message. Meta blamed a "technical error". A…
Windy, the Met Office's live map at live4.bmd.gov.bd, the BMD app and the free 1090 hotline: where the real forecasts are, how to read a…
Rice absorbs a little surface moisture and leaves starch dust in the ports; it cannot pull water out of a phone. The monsoon-season routine…
The application takes ten minutes at bdris.gov.bd, but the certificate still comes from your union or city office. Step by step, what to…
30 seconds for each of the first two drops, 40 seconds for the third to seventh, credited within 24 hours and valid for 15 days…
Shorts has 1.5 billion monthly viewers but paid creators only through a capped fund. Ads between clips and a revenue share change that, and…
Sajedul Islam and his son Muntasir Mamun learned networking from YouTube, founded Safal Telecom in 2020, and now serve 100 homes, five…
Watch Series 8 at $399, the rugged Watch Ultra at $799, AirPods Pro 2, iPhone 14 and 14 Plus, and a 14 Pro whose notch became a…
Eight lakh registered learners, classes 6 to university, all 64 districts: the Dhaka edtech founded in 2019 by Shahir Chowdhury and Zeeshan…
Daraz started in Bangladesh in 2014 with five staff; it now employs 6,000. The numbers from its anniversary press conference, the model…
An MBA, a Dhaka HR job she hated, a graphics course in Mymensingh, an $86 first order, and now Tk 60,000-86,000 a month from a Garo village…
The government's incident response team saw a surge of SYN, UDP and fragment floods against critical infrastructure and asked operators to…
