By Rafiq Vayani DOHA: Thousands of people watched in admiration as a Qatar Airways aircraft flew in formation over Doha with the world-famous Red Arrows aerobatic display team, an event taking place as the airline celebrates its twentieth anniversary. The event, hosted by the British Ambassador to the State of Qatar, His Excellency Mr. Ajay Sharma, and Qatar Airways Group …

ISLAMABAD: Jovago.pk, Pakistan’s first and no.1 online hotel booking website on the occasion of “World Tourism Day” that is celebrated every year on September 27 globally, brings exciting announcement for its travelers. Jovago.pk welcomes Pearl-Continental & Marriott Pakistan Hotels onboard. Building on an existing relationship with Hashoo Group’s Hotel One brand, the new partnership with the country’s largest hotel chain …

By Rafiq Vayani MANAMA: Gulf Air, the Kingdom of Bahrain’s national carrier, and Turkish Airlines, Turkey’s national air carrier, today signed a codeshare agreement that will be effective from 1st November 2017. The agreement will expand the travel opportunities for the passengers of both airlines with jointly operated double daily flights between Bahrain and Istanbul. The signing ceremony took place at …

KARACHI: World Heart Day is observed world-wide on 29th September 2017 but due to ‘holidays’ on that date Memon Medical Institute Hospital observed World Heart Day recently by organizing a walk, which is perhaps one of the easiest of all the physical activity possible. This walk which was from Memon Medical Institute Hospital to Safoora Roundabout and then returning back …

ADDIS ABABA: Flying even more greener; Ethiopian Airlines Group, the largest airline in Africa, is pleased to announce that it has fully digitalized all its business processes like aircraft maintenance and Flight Operations, Commercial Operations, Finance, HRM, Customer Services, Procurement and supply Chain Management, Online learning, management approvals and authorizations etc… by removing paper from the entire system as of …

LAHORE: The shoot for drama serial Noor-ul-Ain, produced by IDream Entertainment, has begun and it will be airing on ARY Digital, the most watched Entertainment channel in Pakistan. The play is being directed by the award-winning director, Sarmad Khoosat, who has directed many hit serials. Produced by Abdullah Seja, Noor-Ul-Ain has penned down by Edison Idrees Masih, writer of Ghairat …

MANAMA: The Kingdom of Bahrain’s national carrier Gulf Air today celebrated World Tourism Day in collaboration with the University of Bahrain. Recognising distinguished students of the University’s Media, Tourism and Arts Division, Gulf Air awarded them complimentary flights to some of its newest destinations: Tbilisi, Georgia – Colombo, Sri Lanka – Athens, Greece. Presenting the tickets to the University of …

KARACHI: Known businessman Zakaria Usman has been elected as Chairman Pakistan Plastic Manufacturers Association (PPMA) unopposed for the term of 2017-18. Annual election for six executive committee seats was held at PPMA Secretariat in Karachi. S M Tariq of Tariq Plastico Pvt. Ltd. and Asif Rasheed of Rasheed Sons also elected unopposed as Senior Vice Chairman and Vice Chairman respectively. …

KARACHI: According to the Sindh Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) rural survey 2016 there has been a two percent increase in the enrolment of children aged 6-16 years since 2015. This is significant for Sindh to honour Article 25 A or right to education and its rules notified in 2016 and ready to be rolled out;  22% children aged …

ACCRA: Africa’s largest Airline Group, Ethiopian Airlines, has won Chartered Institute of Marketing Ghana (CIMG) Airline Company International award for the year 2016. Ethiopian received the accolade at the 28th edition of the CIMG National Performance Awards in Accra. While receiving the award, Mr Mitiku Asrat, Regional Director, Central and West Africa, said, “As a pan African airline, we are …