News Desk KARACHI: 8th Board of Directors’ meeting 2019-20 of Pakistan-Romania Business Council was held on May 05, 2020 at the Conference Room under the Chairmanship of Mr. Sohail Shamim Firpo to discuss the current scenario and how to ease the Covid-19 pandemic’s economic impact on Pakistan and Romania with reference to bilateral trade. It was thoroughly discussed and all …

KARACHI: Standard Chartered Bank (Pakistan) Limited announced the names of the shortlisted start-ups for Cohort 2 of #SCWomenInTech. #SCWomenInTech is a global programme aimed at supporting gender representation within technology-based entrepreneurship. This year the programme received more than 250 applications out of which 25 have been shortlisted to embark on journey of discovery, learning and development. This year in addition …

DUBAI: Emirates Aviation University, the academic wing of the Emirates Group and one of the region’s most prestigious educational institutions, has been awarded an overall score of 5 Stars by QS Stars University Ratings for its outstanding performance and academic excellence across a wide range of categories. The university is the first non-federal educational institution to receive a 5 Stars QS …

By Rafiq Vayani DUBAI: Arabian Travel Market (ATM)has officially announced the launch of ATM Virtual, a three-day event that will take place from 1-3 June 2020. The event, which underscores ATM’s commitment to delivering positive business and networking opportunities to the region’s vast travel and tourism community, will focus on emerging trends, opportunities, and the challenges which are directly impacting …

KAMPALA, Uganda: Standard Chartered (www.SC.com) announced today that Joint Medical Store, the Ugandan not-for-profit organisation, has become the first client to make a drawdown under the Bank’s US$1 billion financing commitment (https://bit.ly/2ynl92A) to help companies tackling Covid-19. JMS’ drawdown for US$2.2m on a loan facility will help them provide healthcare facilities and supply masks, sanitisers and medicines in Uganda. The private NGO, which was …

ABU DHABI: Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), the world’s first graduate-level, research-based artificial intelligence (AI) university, has announced that the start of its first academic year has been rescheduled for January 2021. The decision was made in light of safety measures taken on campus due to the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, during the Board of Trustees meeting …

News Desk BOSTON: Nabil Habayeb, GE’s President and CEO for the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey, has been named Senior Vice President, GE, and President & CEO, Global Growth Organization (GGO) effective June 1, 2020. Habayeb succeeds Rachel Duan, Senior Vice President, GE, and President & CEO, GGO, who has decided to leave GE and embark on a new …

News Desk KARACHI: Getz Pharma under its “Care for Heroes” initiative to combat corona virus in healthcare facilities, is disinfecting over 8,000 clinics, 650 hospital wards and conducting free screening tests of more than 25,000 doctors across Pakistan. In order to minimize the risk of this contagion at clinics and hospitals, Getz Pharma will regularly be disinfecting these venues for …

DUBAI: FrieslandCampina, the global manufacturer of consumer dairy products, has launched an initiative to support the UAE government’s COVID-19 sanitisation and containment efforts. As Dubai Municipality staff and sanitisation workers are deployed to sanitise the city’s streets, FrieslandCampina is providing hot Rainbow Karak tea—a staple beverage popular among the nation’s workers—to all frontliners working around the clock to combat the …

KARACHI: JazzCash, Pakistan’s leading digital wallet, announces a partnership with payment technology leader Mastercard to advance financial inclusion by strengthening Pakistan’s payments ecosystem. The partnership enables merchants throughout Pakistan to accept digital payments from customers, digitize their supply chain, and move to cashless operations. In a first for Pakistan, merchants and consumers who sign up for JazzCash wallet will be …