News Desk ABU DHABI: Sky News Arabia and Twitter announced today that the first-ever live Arabic news show on the social platform called #OnStream. The show will launch on February 26 as a weekly show covering general interest news from science and technology, to health, culture, sports and world news. It will air via Sky News Arabia’s Twitter account @SkyNewsArabia. Produced and …

KARACHI: Samir Mir Shaikh Business Leader & educationist inaugurated Higher Education Commission All Sindh Inter-University Boxing Championship 2020 at Benazir Bhutto Shaheed University Lyari Karachi. Boxers from different University from Sindh are participating in the championship. Including University Of Karachi , Benazir Bhutto Shaheed University Lyari , IQRA University , Jamshoro University , Agricultural University Tando Jam & others. PR

By Afshan Lalani KARACHI: A dinner was hosted in honor of visiting delegation from Iran. The special evening was hosted by Rashid Ahmed Siddiqui, President Karachi Business Forum & Think Tank at his place. Pakistan and Iran are close neighbors, and they were together partnering in turkey in what was called regional cooperation for development (rcd). Pakistan share a boundary …

News Desk KARACHI: In line with recent developments in the digital ecosystem and keeping up with an increasing demand for more fluid customer experiences, Jazz has partnered with Telenor Microfinance Bank and Telenor Pakistan has partnered with JazzCash to provide direct and seamless integration on the mobile financial platforms to optimize customer experience. The partnership’s aim is to enable a digital …

News Desk KARACHI: TPL Trakker, Pakistan’s leading IoT Company, has partnered with Eat Mubarak, a local food delivery service, to power their app with TPL Maps, a business segment of TPL Trakker and Pakistan’s first digital mapping service. This partnership will give Eat Mubarak access to the largest location based dataset covering over 400 cities, 4.5 million geocoded addresses and …

KARACHI: Standard Chartered upskilled community coaches from Karachi United Football Club (KUFC) to build future footballers of Pakistan. This programme was led by two Liverpool FC academy coaches for 12 KUFC coaches who work across underserved communities and are an integral part of the Bank’s annual football community league. Steven Gillespie and Paul O Brien, coaches who work with the …

News Desk DUBAI: It was a marathon of a different kind – young, bright and futuristic minds at Carnegie Mellon University worked with intent over a 24-hour period to present 10 extraordinary ideas to Emirates – the lead sponsor of the varsity hackathon. The Emirates Group and Carnegie Mellon University, based in the US, have a history of partnering around various initiatives, including …

News Desk PANAMA CITY, Panama: Dubai Chamber organized a breakfast roundtable for private and public sector stakeholders in Panama, with the aim to introduce them to the trade and investment opportunities in Dubai due to Expo 2020.  The event alsohighlighted on Dubai as a global business destination and gateway to the MENA region for Latin American countries. Forty-five participants representing …

DUBAI: Dubai resident Karen Khachanov reached the second round of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships on Monday with a 7-6 (2) 6-1 win over Mikhail Kukushkin, and tour veteran Philipp Kohlschreiber overcame a bold challenge from Egyptian wild card Mohamed Safwat, winning 4-6 6-4 6-0. Safwat, who recently won his first Challenger title in his 133rd tournament spread over 10 years, broke Kohlschreiber …

News Desk DUBAI: An impressive line-up of partners and speakers addressed industry peers and stake holders on utilising the IoT landscape to drive innovation at the 5th Internet of Things 2020, held at Armani Hotel Dubai. The key note addressed how AI has made business more profitable with Dr. Sven Korner and using semantic processing to interpret data to deliver real …