KARACHI: Friends of Burns Centre organized an 15th Anniversary Dinner 2020. It was held at Beach Luxury Hotel, Karachi on January 31, 2020. Mr. Zahid Saeed, President of Friends of Burns Centre spoke that how Burns Centre is helping people to recover from their cruel burns injuries by giving them best facility and 100% free treatment. Mr. S. M. Muneer, …

By Rafiq Vayani KARACHI: The agreement between Pakistan Super League franchise Lahore Qalandar and Medicam Group of Companies has been finalized.  Medicam Chairman Mr. Khalil Ahmad Nanitalwala, Chief Executive Officer, Salman Khalil Nanitalwala, Managing Director, Junaid Khalil Nanitalwala, Chief Operating Officer Khurram Khalil NaniTalawala, Director Admin Zafar Riaz Bari and others attended the event. “We want cooperation with cricket as …

DUBAI: Supported by cricketing superstars Yuvraj Singh and Shahid Afridi, alongside 12,000 spectators, Laing O’Rourke triumphed by 147 runs over CoEX Project Team in the final of the third annual Expo 2020 Dubai cricket tournament at Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Friday. The popular tournament forms part of Expo 2020 Dubai’s strategy to advance worker welfare and health, safety, quality …

News Desk DUBAI: In a bid to further contribute to enhancing trade flow in Dubai’s leading free zones, DP World, UAE Region and Dubai South signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to enable its flagship Free Zone, Jebel Ali Free Zone (Jafza) and Dubai South to facilitate the seamless entry and exit of goods between them and enhance services to …

News Desk KARACHI: Lucky Cement Limited (psx: LUCK) won the Int’l Corporate Social Responsibility Award in the category of “Green Environmental Stewardship”, organized by The Professionals Network (TPN), at the 9th CSR Summit & Awards held on 30th January, 2020 at Marriott hotel, Karachi. Lucky Cement Limited received this prestigious award in recognition of its efforts to control carbon emissions in …

JOHANNESBURG: South Africa has become the first country in Africa to join to the Facebook Amber Alerts programme. This follows the announcement of a partnership between Facebook (facebook.com) and The South African Police Service (SAPS) to use the Facebook platform and community to help find missing children. The system enables the South African Police Service to seek assistance from the …

KARACHI: The 10th ‘International Women Leaders Summit’ was held in Movenpick Karachi, Pakistan, bringing together women leaders from across the globe, to reflect on their stories of success, and inspire others to take the lead. A pioneer in leadership development for professional women, New World Concepts led by Yasmin Hyder has been organizing the International Women Leaders’ Summit in Karachi since 2012. …

KARACHI: Engro Fertilizers welcomes the decision of Government of Pakistan to reduce GIDC on urea. In line with the decision and to support the valued farmers of the country, Engro Fertilizers has decided to fully pass on the benefit of change in GIDC rates by announcing a 160/bag reduction in urea prices, effective February 1, 2020. It is worth highlighting that the impact …

By Rafiq Vayani KARACHI: Mr Shazad Dada, Chief Executive Officer, Standard Chartered Bank Pakistan Limited has taken over as the President of the Overseas Investors Chamber of Commerce and Industry (OICCI) for the 2020 term. This was announced at the 160th Annual General Meeting of the OICCI held at the Chamber on Friday, January 31, 2020. Mr. Haroon Rashid, Managing Director Shell Pakistan Limited, was elected …

KUALA LUMPUR: In order to prevent the public’s negative perception on the spread of Coronavirus Novel Cluster circulated by Chinese tourists particularly from Wuhan city and Hubei Province, the government of Malaysia through the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture (MoTAC) has taken a positive step by establishing a Tourism Recovery Committee to monitor current developments for this issue. The Minister of …