DOHA: Qatar Airways has further strengthened its commitment to Italy with the acquisition of 49 per cent of AQA Holding, the new parent company of Meridiana fly (Meridiana), while the previous sole shareholder Alisarda has kept 51 per cent. Qatar Airways currently flies from Doha to Rome, Venice, Pisa and Milan a total of 42 times per week and this …

DUBAI: OSN – the region’s leading entertainment network – has further strengthened its relationship with Disney with a new 2nd pay window deal for movies. OSN customers can now look forward to hugely popular theatrical releases and TV movies, giving subscribers access to an outstanding array of Disney blockbusters on OSN Play, On demand and WAVO in addition to OSN’s …

ABU DHABI: Masdar Institute of Science and Technology’s Sustainable Bioenergy Research Consortium (SBRC) – a non-profit entity supported by Etihad Airways, Boeing, Takreer, Safran and General Electric – announced that its flagship project, the Seawater Energy and Agriculture System (SEAS), has reached a critical milestone in its development of sustainable aviation biofuels through the first harvest of the biofuel feedstock. …

MONTREAL: Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (hereinafter referred to as “SAIT”) established AI Lab on August 17 (local time) at University of Montreal, Canada. The AI Lab will be used to strengthen collaborative research with world-leading scholars in the AI ​​field. SAIT has been collaborating with Professor Yoshua Bengio of University of Montreal, the world’s top authority on deep learning, machine …

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 …