With the government en route to fully realizing the “Digital Bangladesh” mantra, companies are seeing a huge rise in demand for Bangla script online. This is evident from Google Play Store, where ...

A significant number of smartphone users of the country have been left confused and flustered over the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission's (BTRC's) decision to mandate the inclusion ...

Bangladesh’s telecom regulator has made it mandatory to install a particular Bangla-language keyboard in all Android smartphones sold in the country – a controversial move given that the company that ...

Telecoms Minister Mustafa Jabbar has offered an explanation as to why all Android smartphones are required to install the Bijoy Android Package Kit before being ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Bangladesh’s telecom regulator has made it mandatory to install a particular Bangla-language keyboard in all ...

The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission's order to pre-install Bijoy app in all imported and locally-manufactured android phones has drawn sharp criticism. According to the directive, ...

Our thoughts and feelings are best expressed through native language, in our case Bangla, and to do that what other media could be better than blogs and social media. With the massive explosion of the ...

This post is part of our special coverage Languages and the Internet. The Bangla blogosphere and Bangladeshi Facebook users are angry and protesting the accusation that ‘Avro‘, a popular and widely ...