It isn’t a secret that some companies seek to buy favorable news coverage or that many journalists pad their incomes with envelopes of money slipped to them at press conferences, or after interviews. Now, an app takes “envelope journalism” to a new level. The mobile application Zhao Jizhe — Find a Journalist in Chinese — connects companies seeking publicity and journalists interested in pocketing some extra cash. On the loading page, the mobile app described…
Posts published in “Day: June 17, 2016”
The US attorney’s office in Manhattan has opened an investigation of the cyber heist of $81 million from Bangladesh Bank’s account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, a law enforcement source said. Preet Bharara, the US attorney for the Southern District of New York, is investigating the February crime, in which criminals used the SWIFT fund-transfer network to steal money from Bangladesh’s central bank. Bharara’s office declined to comment. The source spoke on…
Dhaka: Golam Faizullah Fahim, one of the three attackers who badly hacked a Madaripur college teacher on Wednesday, has admitted to be a member of banned militant outfit Hizb-ut Tahrir, says the district police chief. Faizullah told interrogators that he had joined Hizb-ut Tahrir very recently. Some “former students” of Uttara High School and College in Dhaka and two staff of a book shop near the college persuaded him into joining the organisation. He had…
Dhaka: The head Hindu priest of Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission in the capital has received a threat on his life. Mission authorities said a man handed over a letter containing the threat to a mission staff around Wednesday noon. The letter did not name anyone but mentioned the top preacher of the mission as the recipient. Syed Nurul Islam, deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, last night quoted the letter: “Leave the country while…
The writer Ahmad is a Doha and Istanbul – based Pakistani investigative journalist and academic If it was not up to random terrorist attacks globally, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) would have been on a run as its annexed land in Iraq and Syria has been shrinking. Even though ISIS has not been harmed yet, it has been exhausted to a significant extent. Throughout its rise and steady retreat, the organisation, well…
KARACHI: The intelligence agencies on Thursday arrested at least 17 suspected operatives of Daesh, a global terror outfit commonly known as Islamic State, from different parts of the country. The arrests were made following leads provided by suspects detained by law enforcement agencies couple of days ago. According to sources, the Daesh suspects were captured from Lahore, Karachi, Nowshera, Sargodha and Dera Ismail Khan. The investigation from the arrested suspects is underway. Meanwhile, Pakistan Foreign…