Bangladesh lifts ban on Facebook

DHAKA: Bangladesh lifted a ban on Facebook on Sunday, a week after it blocked the popular social networking site over caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed and "obnoxious" images of its leaders.

The Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission ( BTRC) ordered the country's international Internet gateway providers to unblock the site after the US-based company agreed to remove the obnoxious images and content.

"The Facebook is now open," BTRC vice chairman Hasan Mahmud Delwar said.