KARACHI: The much-awaited event Beyond Beautiful finally had a grand opening with a Gala Night on 25th January at Marriott Hotel. The three-day event strives to bring the best in the beauty industry and aimed to give new perspective & set new standards, and so Gala Night proved that it will successfully manage to do that. The first day of …

KARACHI- Sindh Provincial Minister for Health and Population Welfare Dr. Azra Fazal Pechuho on Friday said that diabetes had acquired an epidemic proportion in Pakistan and in other Asian countries, effecting millions of people. Sindh government has introduced a new bill ‘Sindh Injured Persons’ Compulsory Medical Treatment in the provincial assembly to offer medical assistance and treatment to any injured …

KARACHI: Coca-Cola Pakistan will be sponsoring Shabnam Bashir, an up and coming self-made beautician from Lahore, to participate in ‘Beyond Beautiful’ – the first ever beauty expo in Pakistan, to be held in Karachi on January 26 and 27, 2019. Shabnam is one of the 7,500 beneficiaries from the Coca-Cola funded microfinance project ‘5by20 Pakistan’ in partnership with Kashf Foundation, …

By Irfan Pardesi LONDON: Founders Forum, a global community for digital and technology entrepreneurs, is giving start-ups the chance to pitch their business ideas on the future of air travel.  On June 12, with support from British Airways, a panel of leading investors and CEOs will be 30,000 feet in the sky while ideas are pitched from the ground via …

KARACHI: Recently Google released its YouTube Ads Leaderboard for Pakistan for the year 2018. This list represents the top 10 ads and branded content people chose to watch on YouTube through a combination of popularity and promotion. According to an Ipsos research, YouTube is the number one online video streaming platform among millennials in Pakistan with it reaching 80 percent …

DUBAI: Emirates Global Aluminium, the largest industrial company in the United Arab Emirates outside oil and gas, yesterday announced a milestone at its under-construction Guinea bauxite mining project as the first loaded train travelled from its subsidiary Guinea Alumina Corporation’s mine to the coast. The 80-wagon train carried some 6,800 tonnes of bauxite ore from GAC’s mine to the company’s …

NEUILLY-SUR-SEINE, France: Bureau Veritas will sponsor France’s Pavilion at Expo 2020 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) which will run from October 20th 2020 to April 10th 2021. Bureau Veritas Group is supporting France’s participation in the Expo 2020 Dubai in the form of a skills-based sponsorship initiative that comes under an agreement with COFREX, the French exhibitions committee, which …

KARACHI: Meezan Bank, Pakistan’s leading Islamic bank and the Best Bank in Pakistan has recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with KIA Lucky Motors Pakistan Ltd – a collaboration between KIA Motors Corporation, South Korea and the Yunus Brothers Group, Pakistan, formed to start vehicle assembly / manufacturing operations in Pakistan. The signing ceremony took place at Meezan House, Meezan …

DUBAI: The fourth meeting of the 2019 Dubai World Cup Carnival at Meydan on Thursday was a quality affair officially highlighted by the 1400m Al Fahidi Fort sponsored by Emirates Global Aluminium (G2) and the 1800m Al Rashidiya (G2)—both $250,000 events on the turf course. The 3-year-olds hoping to earn their way into the $2.5 million UAE Derby (G2) got …

KARACHI: The 9th ‘International Women Leaders Summit’ was held in 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 …