LONDON: British Airways’ week of Sport Relief fundraising events has taken off on Friday, 6th March by achieving a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS® title for the Heaviest Aircraft Pulled Over 100 Metres by a team (mixed), made up of colleagues and sporting celebrities. British Airways’ support for Sport Relief comes as part of the airline’s global charity partnership with Comic Relief, …

DUBAI: Super Saturday is finally upon us! Prize money of $2.7 million will be distributed among seven fixtures that are course and distance preps for the world’s richest day of racing, the $35 million Dubai World Cup meeting on Saturday, March 28. Race 1 (4:00 p.m.)—Listed $300,000 Al Bastakiya (1900m, 3YOs) Sponsored by emirates.com The final prep for the $2.5 million UAE Derby …

News Desk DUBAI: Emirates is providing customers more flexibility, choice and value through its newly introduced waiver policy for all booked tickets issued on or from today, 7 March until 31 March 2020, allowing customers across its network the choice of changing their travel dates without change and reissuance fees. The move provides Emirates’ customers with peace of mind should they …

News Desk KARACHI: Easypaisa, the country’s leading payments solution and Seed Out, an innovative crowd funding platform which provides entrepreneurial solutions to the underprivileged , have recently collaborated to digitize the process of payment collection from the latter’s beneficiaries. It is yet another milestone in Easypaisa’s journey of bringing digital financial solutions to its users through partnerships with prominent organizations in …

ISLAMABAD: Federal Government has appointed Sadia Khan as Commissioner Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan for a period of three years with immediate effect. The notification in this regard has issued here on Thursday. She has been serving as the President & CEO of the Pakistan Institute of Corporate Governance (PICG) prior to this. Khan has pursued a versatile career …

News Desk CAIRO: ENOC Misr, a joint venture between Proserv Group and the UAE’s Emirates National Oil Company (ENOC), signed a memorandum of understanding with local lubricant manufacturers to evaluate blending and manufacturing ENOC lubricants in Egypt. The move comes as part of ENOC Misr’s ambitious plans to maximise operational efficiency and ensure product availability in the local market. The …

PUTRAJAYA: Tourism Malaysia and SHARP Electronics Malaysia worked together to co-produce videos celebrating the Visit Malaysia 2020 (VM2020) campaign which were officially launched on 28 February 2020 at Pavilion Kuala Lumpur. The videos were released on Tourism Malaysia’s official VM2020 website on 5th March, 2020. The videos titled ‘Diverse’ and ‘Amazing’ were especially made using SHARP’s AQUOS 8k technology to capture …

SHARJAH: Tilal Properties, the leading real estate development and investment company and the premier developer of Tilal City, has granted the Sharjah-based Victoria International School two plots of land at its flagship project Tilal City. This came under an agreement signed on the side-lines of 7th Real Estate Investment Exhibition, Acres 2020 on Thursday 5th March. The agreement stems from …

KARACHI: Mahreen Aziz Khan has joined K-Electric (KE) as the first female CxO since the company’s transformation began in 2009. Ms. Khan is part of the KE Leadership as Chief Marketing & Communications Officer (CMCO) and this also makes her the first female CMCO at the company. After studying law from Cambridge University, Ms. Khan qualified as a Barrister and …

Sports Desk DUBAI: Juddmonte Farms’ blue-blooded star Tacitus has arrived at Meydan Racecourse for the 25th edition of the Group 1 $12 million Dubai World Cup sponsored by Emirates Airline (G1). The Bill Mott-trained multiple Grade 2-winning and four-time Grade 1-placed son of perennial American champion sire Tapit and champion Close Hatches exits a respectable fifth-place finish in the Saudi Cup on …