DUBAI: Transguard Group and Diebold Nixdorf announced a strategic partnership to provide financial institutions and retailers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with best-in-class services and technology. Transguard Group, a leading UAE business support and outsourcing provider, is now a certified Diebold Nixdorf solutions service provider across the UAE. The partnership will enable Transguard to provide authorised maintenance services to …

By Rafiq Vayani RIYADH: Burj Rafal Hotel Kaminski is organizing a Turkish Kebab Festival at the hotel’s signature Ottoman restaurant, Tuğra. With the attendance of several media outlets in addition to the Turkish ambassador and many notable guests, the opening ceremony will commence on Sunday October 8th. Festivities will start every day from 7PM until 11PM and will continue for …

KARACHI: Chairman Federation of Pakistan Chamber of Commerce and Industry Standing Committee on Technical and Vocational Education Aman Pir chaired meeting at FPCCI recently. Attended by honorable Chief Guest, Special Assistant to Chief Minister and Chairman Sindh Technical Education & Vocational Training Authority (STEVTA), Shahid Abdul Salam Thahim Secretary Industries and Commerce, Govt of Sindh, Abdul Rahim Soomro, Vice President …

DOHA: Qatar Airways has further strengthened its commitment to Italy with the acquisition of 49 per cent of AQA Holding, the new parent company of Meridiana fly (Meridiana), while the previous sole shareholder Alisarda has kept 51 per cent. Qatar Airways currently flies from Doha to Rome, Venice, Pisa and Milan a total of 42 times per week and this …

ABU DHABI: Masdar Institute of Science and Technology’s Sustainable Bioenergy Research Consortium (SBRC) – a non-profit entity supported by Etihad Airways, Boeing, Takreer, Safran and General Electric – announced that its flagship project, the Seawater Energy and Agriculture System (SEAS), has reached a critical milestone in its development of sustainable aviation biofuels through the first harvest of the biofuel feedstock. …

MONTREAL: Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (hereinafter referred to as “SAIT”) established AI Lab on August 17 (local time) at University of Montreal, Canada. The AI Lab will be used to strengthen collaborative research with world-leading scholars in the AI ​​field. SAIT has been collaborating with Professor Yoshua Bengio of University of Montreal, the world’s top authority on deep learning, machine …

By Rafiq Vayani DOHA: Thousands of people watched in admiration as a Qatar Airways aircraft flew in formation over Doha with the world-famous Red Arrows aerobatic display team, an event taking place as the airline celebrates its twentieth anniversary. The event, hosted by the British Ambassador to the State of Qatar, His Excellency Mr. Ajay Sharma, and Qatar Airways Group …

ISLAMABAD: Jovago.pk, Pakistan’s first and no.1 online hotel booking website on the occasion of “World Tourism Day” that is celebrated every year on September 27 globally, brings exciting announcement for its travelers. Jovago.pk welcomes Pearl-Continental & Marriott Pakistan Hotels onboard. Building on an existing relationship with Hashoo Group’s Hotel One brand, the new partnership with the country’s largest hotel chain …

By Rafiq Vayani MANAMA: Gulf Air, the Kingdom of Bahrain’s national carrier, and Turkish Airlines, Turkey’s national air carrier, today signed a codeshare agreement that will be effective from 1st November 2017. The agreement will expand the travel opportunities for the passengers of both airlines with jointly operated double daily flights between Bahrain and Istanbul. The signing ceremony took place at …

ADDIS ABABA: Flying even more greener; Ethiopian Airlines Group, the largest airline in Africa, is pleased to announce that it has fully digitalized all its business processes like aircraft maintenance and Flight Operations, Commercial Operations, Finance, HRM, Customer Services, Procurement and supply Chain Management, Online learning, management approvals and authorizations etc… by removing paper from the entire system as of …