Grand Tech Divorce Settlement: Could Bill Gates lose even more than Bezos?

By Ahsan Zafeer ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 3 min read

Mackenzie Scott settled $38 billion out of her divorce with Jeff Bezos, the most amount received due to a divorce in history. It’s not clear…

Banks begin deploying Artificial Intelligence to keep watch on customers & employees

By Ahsan Zafeer ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Major global banks have started using surveillance software and computer vision to monitor their customers. Computer vision is a field of artificial intelligence that trains computers to…

India outdoing China in producing new tech unicorns, while Pakistan awaits its first homegrown unicorn

By Ahsan Zafeer ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

India is rapidly closing the gap with China in minting new unicorns – privately held startups with value reaching up to $1 billion or more.…

A major step towards fog free Punjab: All brick kilns in Punjab shifted to environment-friendly Zig-Zag technology

By Ahsan Zafeer ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

The Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar has announced that 7,986 kilns have been converted to Zig-Zag technology across the province, which is all set…

Pakistan’s auction of mobile telephone spectrum set for June

By Ahsan Zafeer ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

The auction for mobile telephone spectrum is expected to be held in June. The consultant firm onboarded by the government has expressed optimism that it…

Election commission strongly opposes electric voting, favors paper ballets

By Ahsan Zafeer ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

The government has expressed its intent to introduce electoral reforms of whom electric voting machines (EVMs) and E-voting systems for the overseas Pakistanis comprise an…

Pakistan close to preventing India from buying Khewra salt cheap & reselling it as Indian

By Ahsan Zafeer ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Pakistan is close to achieving the long-running objective and persistent demand of the citizens to register Khewra salt with international trade bodies to end Indian…

Media refuses to bow down to new censorship attempt, puts up resistance

By Ahsan Zafeer ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

It appears that new attempts are being made to curtail the media’s freedom to ensure that only favorable news receives coverage. On Wednesday, in a…

Local shortage of premium mango expected once again as Pakistan gears up to export to China too

By Ahsan Zafeer ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Every year, Pakistanis are left with inferior quality mangoes and pay high prices to opportunistic vendors for what little is left. The majority of the…

Pakistan stresses the need for bridging the global digital divide

By Ahsan Zafeer ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

The President of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), Pakistani Ambassador Munir Akram, has underscored the importance of political commitment to bridge the “digital…

Asian Development Bank stresses Pakistan to address challenges faced by small businesses

By Ahsan Zafeer ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has advised Pakistan to mitigate the challenges faced by its private sector, particularly small and medium enterprises (SMEs). “Policy challenge—strengthening…

Interior Sindh inches towards the Digital Age, gets high speed internet

By Ahsan Zafeer ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

In a groundbreaking development, high-speed broadband has become available to some of the key areas from the Interior Sindh, bridging the digital divide between the…

Pakistan enters $33.46 million contracts to purchase Turkish tugboats

By Ahsan Zafeer ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Pakistan and a Turkish shipbuilder signed two agreements Monday worth $33.46 million to acquire four ASD tugboats (LNG compatible) and two pilot boats. The agreements…

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