The Jazz Drive-In Cinema has started screening in Karachi at the Raiha CineGold Plex, Bahria Town, Phase-1. Movies will be screened in the evenings from Friday to Sunday and will follow a week-wise theme ranging from classics to action, science fiction, fantasy, and animations – a movie for each member of the family. This is an initiative of Jazz, Pakistan’s …

PESHAWAR: TransPeshawar launched the Zu-bicycle-sharing service in a ceremony held at the Peshawar University. In a company statement, TransPeshawar acquired 360 state-of-the-art bicycles docked at 32 stations around Peshawar University and Hayatabad area. The bicycle kiosks installed at each bicycle station will have a facility for customers to view their cards’ status and access their credentials. The ceremony was attended …

Tri-Angels Electronics Pvt. Ltd., Pakistan’s exclusive licensed company for the Hisense brand, has expanded its manufacturing capacity to include residential air conditioners. The facility has the capacity to produce 100K units of residential ACs annually with an investment of 1.3 million USD. The facility provides state-of-the-art testing rooms with latest technology equipment monitoring high ambient environment for best performance. It …

Pakistan’s No.1 choice against Dengue, Mortein, joins hands with Carrefour Pakistan, owned and operated by Majid Al Futtaim in Pakistan to drive a nationwide awareness campaign against Dengue. The partnership will cover all Carrefour flagship stores across Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad and Faisalabad. This was announced during a press briefing held at the Carrefour located in Lahore’s Packages Mall. With its …

ISLAMABAD: A high powered delegation of Etisalat Group, led by Group CEO Hatem Dowidar, visited Pakistan to meet with Federal Minister for IT & Telecommunication, Syed Amin ul Haque here on Thursday. During the meeting, Federal Minister for IT & Telecommunication welcomed the delegation from Etisalat and discussed matters related to the Telecom Sector in Pakistan. Secretary IT and Chairman …

By Rafiq Vayani KUALA LUMPUR: In an effort to promote Malaysia as the preferred destination and to boost domestic tourism, Tourism Malaysia has partnered with GoPro to bring forth a new social media challenge targeted towards all residing in Malaysia who captured their amazing travelling moments. Titled ‘Dream Malaysia Challenge’, this challenge entails participants creating and posting a video highlighting …

Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry has presented 36 companies with the Dubai Chamber CSR Label for their outstanding CSR efforts in the second half of 2020. The Chamber recently hosted a virtual ceremony showcasing the companies’ achievements in corporate social responsibility (CSR), which was attended by representatives from the recognised organisations. In total, the Chamber has awarded 467 labels …

MANAMA: Gulf Air, the national carrier of the Kingdom of Bahrain, was recently certified with level 4 of the New Distribution Capability (NDC) certification from the International Air Transport Association (IATA). The NDC Certification Programme, the only official industry certification programme in support of the NDC standard, is provided by IATA to airlines upon completing a set of requirements and …

By Rafiq Vayani DUBAI: Leading builder, former chairman ABAD Southern Region and real estate adviser to KCCI Asif Sumsum has been appointed as Convener of the Central Standing Committee on Real Estate of the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI). A notification has also been issued in this regard. Asif Sumsum is also the chairman of the …

ABU DHABI; Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has appointed Nadya Abdulla Kamali as country managing director for the UAE. Based in Dubai, she is responsible for leading operations across the country and driving Accenture’s Health and Public Service industries, two strategic sectors in the region. In addition to her country managing director’s role for the UAE, Kamali joins the Accenture Middle East …