Imo, the instant messaging app, has earned Google Play’s ‘Independent Security Review’ badge, marking its second consecutive recognition under the tech giant’s security certification initiative. 

Imo, a messaging and calling app, has reported a significant surge in usage among Bangladeshi users in 2023, with 3,580 crore international calls made over the platform. Bangladesh saw a total of 247.9 billion interactions on Imo in 2023, with each Bangladeshi user communicating approximately 730 times on average, equivalent to about twice a day.

The three new features were announced during imo’s new campaign, ‘Your privacy, Your Control,’ intending to offer enhanced privacy protection and ensure cyber security for the users.

Despite sending well over a million migrants abroad last year, Bangladesh is unlikely to get the desired remittance from them as almost four out of five of them were less skilled.

The government has launched a medical call centre and a hotline to be used on the instant messaging app imo for 22 lakh Bangladeshis living in Saudi Arabia.

With two silver and two bronze medals, Bangladeshi students have taken 26th place among contestants from 111 countries in the 58th International Mathematical Olympiad in Rio de Janeiro of Brazil.

Three days after lifting a 22-day ban on Facebook, the government blocks the social networking sites Twitter, Skype and Imo while WhatsApp and Viber still under the restrictions.

The Polar Code, passed at a meeting in London of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), ban ships from releasing oil, sewage, chemicals and waste into the sea.