It will severely curtail people's fundamental freedoms

The education ministry wants Facebook blocked for "sometime" in Bangladesh during the upcoming SSC and its equivalent examinations to prevent question paper leak.

After daylong outbursts and dismay expressed in social media over the government's move to ban students from using Facebook for

Facebook Inc says its customers' ads will now be visible on third-party apps and websites to everyone who has ever visited its website, and not just to users logged into its social networking service.

Facebook provides users’ information to the Bangladesh authorities for the first time upon its request about 31 users’ accounts in between July and December last year.

The government will soon decide to lift the ongoing ban on Facebook in the country, says Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal.