News Desk DUBAI: As businesses respond to the UAE’s #StayHome directives, Emirates NBD’s Corporate Banking division reports that over 70% of its corporate client base are digitally active on its award-winning digital platform, smartBUSINESS and smartTRADE portal. Corporate Banking has witnessed a significant 60% month-on-month increase in digital on-boarding volumes as new and existing transaction banking clients opt for digital channels …

News Desk DUBAI: ENOC Group has partnered with Emirates Red Crescent to launch a campaign that will allow UAE citizens and residents to make charitable donations for Meer Boxes, Zakat Al Fitr and Eid Al Fitr clothing during the Holy Month of Ramadan. The initiative is aligned with the UAE’s mandate to encourage members of the community to maintain social distancing …

News Desk SHARJAH: Air Arabia announced it operated new repatriation flights between Pakistan and UAE carrying UAE nationals back home free of charge. Two special flights operated between Lahore and Multan in Pakistan and Sharjah International Airport on April 24 and 25th. Air Arabia remains committed to bring stranded citizens back home as well as supporting requests to operate repatriation flights …

News Desk DUBAI: Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry, co-organised a webinar with Clyde& Co on”The Legal Impact of COVID -19 on employment in the UAE”, which was attended by 278 participants from various sectors of the business community. The webinar aimed at helping employers and employees deal with the impact of COVID-19 on their business. It focused on the …

News Desk DUBAI: Choithram International Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Choithrams, the leading supermarket chain in the UAE, has announced an emergency grant to Al Jalila Foundation, a member of Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives. The grant of Dh100,000 will boost the Foundation’s response capacity towards securing the nation against global pandemics including COVID-19. The partnership is inspired …

News Desk DUBAI: Emirates has ramped up its capability to process refunds, reaffirming its commitment to customers and travel trade partners impacted by travel disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. With nearly half a million refund requests pending to manage, the airline has taken proactive steps to restructure its backend procedures and boost resourcing to accelerate the processing of refunds. …

News Desk ABU DHABI: E-Vision, a subsidiary of Etisalat Group, announced its strategic partnership with Etisalat Misr to launch ‘Etisalat TV’, a state-of-the-art app enabling viewers to enjoy both English and Arabic movies, series and Ramadan productions across smart devices anywhere and anytime. This partnership comes in line with E-Vision’s efforts to provide its customers, mainly telecom providers with comprehensive TV …

AMSTELVEEN: The impact of the ongoing Covid-19 crisis on the entire airline sector, and consequently KLM, is unprecedented. Since the start of this crisis, numerous steps have been taken to tackle the situation head on and to preserve cash. On 9 April, Air France-KLM made it known that it would require additional liquidity in the third quarter of 2020. Intensive …

News Desk KARACHI: All Pakistan Restaurant Association (APRA) has welcomed the SOPs issued by the Sindh Govt for holy month of Ramadan and assures all possible cooperation, but at the same time, appealed to Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah to help the restaurant industry due to financial crunch and requested to allow both delivery and takeaway and extend the duration …

News Desk ABU DHABI: The Abu Dhabi Department of Energy (DoE) has issued the 2019 Annual Technical Report for Water, Wastewater and Electricity Sectors in Abu Dhabi, as part of its role as the regulating body, in charge of driving improvement in the technical performance of the energy sector. The aim is to enable the sector to play its critical …