News Desk DUBAI: The UAE’s pursuit of a record haul of medals at the quadrennial Paralympic Games in Tokyo in 2020 will receive a major boost with the support of Emirates NBD, one of the leading banks in the region. A new partnership between Emirates NBD and the National Paralympic Committee (NPC) will provide essential funding for the NPC to prepare for next …

DUBAI: Dubai-based flydubai, recently marks the fifth anniversary of its first flight to Kazakhstan which took off from Dubai International (DXB) to Almaty International Airport (ALA) on 16 September 2014. The airline has carried more than 560,000 passengers between Kazakhstan and the UAE since 2014. Following the success of its service to Almaty, flydubai expanded its service to Kazakhstan with the launch …

MANAMA: Gulf Air, the national airline of the Kingdom of Bahrain, and Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, have added four airports in the United States of America to the list of cities served by the existing codeshare agreement for travel commencing 23 September 2019. The addition of the new destinations further strengthen the solid ties …

KARACHI: 10Pearls celebrated the progress of AI in Pakistan through its initiative AI Summit 2019. The summit was held at ITCN Asia (Expo Center), Karachi and was well-attended by leading tech enterprises, start-ups and students.  10Pearls, a leading end-to-end digital services company, has always been at the forefront of cutting-edge technologies globally and in Pakistan. In line with its mission …

By Rafiq Vayani SHARJAH: Air Arabia, the Middle East and North Africa’s first and largest low-cost carrier, now offers direct flights between Sharjah and Vienna. The non-stop six-hour flight to Vienna, will operate four times a week, on Sundays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, and will be expanded to daily flight service as of mid-December. Adel Al Ali, Group Chief Executive …

DUBAI: Months of planning have successfully led to the final piece of Al Wasl dome being lifted into place after an intricate and complex construction operation. The dome’s huge steel crown was positioned at the top of the jewel of the Expo 2020 Dubai site in an inspiring feat of precision engineering. Enclosing a space of 724,000 cubic metres and …

News Desk ISLAMABAD: Zong 4G, Pakistan’s leading telecommunication operator, stole the show at the 19th ITCN Asia held in Karachi today. ITCN Asia is Pakistan largest IT and Telecom extravaganza and is being attended by over 800 local and international organizations. Federal Minister for IT and Telecommunication , Dr. Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, Secretary IT, Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui, PTA Chairman Maj. Gen …

KARACHI: Nestlé Pakistan announced a change in its top management with the appointment of Samer Edmond Chedid as the new Managing Director in the country. He took over the responsibilities of Managing Director and CEO of Nestlé Pakistan on August 1 after the departure of Ms Freda Duplan. Mr Chedid is an accomplished and top performing business leader, having served in Nestlé, …

Early on Friday, 6 September, a batch of salmon arrived in Dubai in the cargo hold of Emirates flight EK 28 from Glasgow. The shipment of Scottish salmon, destined for restaurants and consumers in the UAE, was the first that was being transported for Seafood Souq, a Dubai based start-up working on transparent and efficient sourcing of seafood, by Emirates …

DUBAI: Blackboard Inc., a leading education technology company for teaching, learning and student engagement, today announced that Sorbonne Abu Dhabi, established in association with Sorbonne University in Paris and specialising in arts, law, humanities, business and science degrees, has become the first university in the UAE to transition its virtual learning environment to the Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery …