DUBAI: Thuraya Telecommunications Company is attending the humanitarian and international development event, AidEx, held from September 13-14 in Nairobi, Kenya. The MSS operator will be meeting with disaster management partners and displaying its latest range of relief comms equipment at the event. Now in its fourth year, the two-day annual conference is a prominent gathering where over 500 aid professionals …

DUBAI: HE Mattar Al Tayer, Director-General and Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), has held a coordinative meeting with HE Major General Abdullah Khalifa Al Marri, Commander-in-Chief of Dubai Police. The meeting discussed ways & means of boosting their cooperation in managing traffic movement during mega events in Dubai. At the start …

KARACHI: Sindh Culture Minister Syed Sardar Ali Shah called on PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari at Bilawal House yesterday and presented the Annual Report of his department. He also presented the famous book of “Edward Sketches”, reprinted by his department. The Pakistan Peoples Party Culture Wing Sindh office-bearers led by the Culture Wing Sindh President Qasim Siraj Soomro, General Secretary …

BIZ TODAY REPORT KARACHI: Solo exhibition of The Crisis of Woman by Amber Arifeen organizing by Alliance Française de Karachi – Art Gallery on Thursday 14th September. Amber is a self-taught painter based in Karachi. She picked up painting when she took AS level Art at Lahore Grammar School. She left for her undergraduate degree in Development Studies from UC …

BIZ TODAY REPORT KARACHI: The City School successfully completed its annual academic moot. With over two hundred teachers, school heads and management participating, the event was set to re-engineer the learning and development process of playgroup to class 2. Held at their campus in Defence, the academic moot focused on new methods and techniques of inculcating confidence and a desire …

KARACHI: Today The City School, one of Pakistan’s premium educational brands, holds its annual academic preparation for the new academic year. Held at their campus in Defence, the academic moot delivers training and development to all the staff focusing on the latest trends and technological changes in education, a practice observed by schools’ management across the world. The focus of …

BIZ TODAY REPORT KARACHI: The upcoming drama Mujhay Jeenay Dou is all set to go on air from 11th September, 2017 on URDU1. Angeline Malik’s directorial Mujhay Jeenay Dou revolves around serious issues and questionable rituals such as domestic violence, child marriage, and marital rape that are prevalent in our society. The story incorporates all the dramatic elements, and at …

ISLAMABAD: Student recognition and High Achievers’ Ceremony of The Smart Schools Northern Region is planned to be held at Islamabad on Friday Sept, 8 2017. The ceremony is aimed to acknowledge the outstanding performance of students during academic year 2017. Students will receive awards for their academic brilliance in 2017 Matriculation Examinations in the presence of their directors, teachers and …

“Na Maloom Afraad 2” being a sequel of 2014’s comedy thriller Pakistani movie “Na Maloom Afraad” had high expectations which weren’t fulfilled.  From a tragic prologue to a very predictable epilogue “Na Maloom Afraad 2” co-written and directed by young, energetic and talented Nabeel Qureshi had its highs and lows. Story-line was predictable and that too coupled with over-flow of …

DUBAI: HE Mattar Al Tayer, Director-General and Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of the Roads & Transport Authority (RTA), revealed that school bus trips accounted for 13% of the total volume of trips during the morning rush hours in Dubai. Statistics showed that the number of students in public and private schools in Dubai in 2016 was about …