News Desk KARACHI: Nestlé Pakistan has won the First Prize for ‘Living the Global Compact Best Practices Sustainability Award 2019’,in the category of multinational companiesand declared the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Champion at the business sustainability moot and award ceremony, hosted by the UN Global Compact Network Pakistan. This is the fourth consecutive time that Nestlé Pakistan has been recognised …

DUBAI: Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) hosted a workshop at its headquarters to introduce businesses and organisations to Dubai Chamber’s CSR Label. This comes after launching the first round of the Label for 2020, with applications being accepted until end of May 2020. The workshop, attended by 22 participants from 13 companies, provided comprehensive details about the Dubai …

DUBAI: Millennium Al Barsha, a four-star hotel located in Al Barsha area near Mall of the Emirates, announced the opening of Moroccan Kitchen, a unique restaurant concept offering authentic Moroccan cuisine in a relaxed atmosphere. The menu features a wide variety of Moroccan delicacies including lamb Couscous with vegetables, chicken Couscous with Tefaya, chicken Rafisa along with lamb, chicken and …

News Desk DUBAI: The UAE government is working on initiatives to equip all schools, universities and students of the country with smart devices and systems, said His Excellency Hussain Bin Ibrahim Al Hammadi, the UAE Minister of Education while inaugurating the Global Educational Supplies and Solutions (GESS) exhibition in Dubai on Tuesday. “Curricula, projects and researches will be enhanced with …

News Desk ABU DHABI: Sky News Arabia and Twitter announced today that the first-ever live Arabic news show on the social platform called #OnStream. The show will launch on February 26 as a weekly show covering general interest news from science and technology, to health, culture, sports and world news. It will air via Sky News Arabia’s Twitter account @SkyNewsArabia. Produced and …

News Desk DUBAI: GymNation reinforced its position as UAE’s fastest growing fitness brand with the recent openings of its Bur Dubai and Ras Al Khaimah branches. The fitness chain also announced plans to open branches in Downtown, Silicon Oasis, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah during the course of 2020. The home grown U.A.E fitness concept opened its doors in January to over 3000 …

By Afshan Lalani KARACHI: A dinner was hosted in honor of visiting delegation from Iran. The special evening was hosted by Rashid Ahmed Siddiqui, President Karachi Business Forum & Think Tank at his place. Pakistan and Iran are close neighbors, and they were together partnering in turkey in what was called regional cooperation for development (rcd). Pakistan share a boundary …

News Desk KARACHI: In line with recent developments in the digital ecosystem and keeping up with an increasing demand for more fluid customer experiences, Jazz has partnered with Telenor Microfinance Bank and Telenor Pakistan has partnered with JazzCash to provide direct and seamless integration on the mobile financial platforms to optimize customer experience. The partnership’s aim is to enable a digital …

News Desk KARACHI: TPL Trakker, Pakistan’s leading IoT Company, has partnered with Eat Mubarak, a local food delivery service, to power their app with TPL Maps, a business segment of TPL Trakker and Pakistan’s first digital mapping service. This partnership will give Eat Mubarak access to the largest location based dataset covering over 400 cities, 4.5 million geocoded addresses and …

KARACHI: Standard Chartered upskilled community coaches from Karachi United Football Club (KUFC) to build future footballers of Pakistan. This programme was led by two Liverpool FC academy coaches for 12 KUFC coaches who work across underserved communities and are an integral part of the Bank’s annual football community league. Steven Gillespie and Paul O Brien, coaches who work with the …