Dhaka, June 5 (bdnews24.com) — Facebook reopened in Bangladesh on Saturday night after being closed for one week.
The government lifted restrictions on popular social networking site with some 875,000 users in Bangladesh at 11:38pm.
Mango Telecom Services managing director, Mir Masud Kabir told bdnews24.com that he received a phone call from chairman of the telecoms regulator retired Major General Zia Ahmed, asking him to withdraw the restrictions on the networking site.
Head of the international internet gateway said, "I received the instruction at 11:37pm and reopened the site a minute later."
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After a week's block, the social networking website Facebook is finally back in Bangladesh.  Facebook was blocked by local authorities in Bangladesh after some "offensive" content of local politicians were uploaded and one man was arrested. 

The block was lifted 23:58 local time (17:58 ). According to ''BDNews24.com'', Mir Masud Kabir, the Mango Telecom Services managing director, had received a phone call from  at 11:57 p.m. (17:57 UTC), asking him to lift the Facebook block. Kabir unblocked Facebook a minute later.

The authorities had decided to unblock Facebook after the company promised to remove the content considered blasphemous as well as the "obnoxious" pictures of the country's leaders.