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Following the footsteps of its parent company Alibaba Group, Daraz is working to create a sustainable ecosystem in Pakistan. With the global multinationals promising and working towards a greater cause of preventing climate change, Daraz has taken initiatives in the past few months which are contributing to the build a sustainable ecosystem. Daraz has partnered in the past with organizations to ensure that the business model on which they are working on are optimized. Partnerships such as with Robinhood Army to reduce ethical binning of food works on the model where the canceled orders from dFresh are further distributed. Since…

The CCP has imposed a penalty of Rs. 44 billion (US265million) on 55 sugar mills, including the Pakistan Sugar Mills Association (PSMA). According to an order issued by the CCP full bench on Friday, the Competition Commission of Pakistan (the “Commission”) passed an order against PSMA and 81 member mills for violations of Section 4 of the Competition Act, 2010 (the “Act”). ALSO READ Finance Minister Suggests a Strategy to Prevent Hoarding of Basic Commodities Briefly, by way of background, the Commission initiated an inquiry in order to analyze “possible anti-competitive activities in the sugar industry”. To gather evidence, search…

The Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) Cyber Crime Wing Faisalabad has arrested a member of an international racket involved in online fraud of multimillion rupees. The accused used to impersonate as a girl and entice innocent people online to transfer cash to his bank accounts. He also obtained bank account details from citizens on the promise of transferring dollars and deprived them of their hard-earned money. ALSO READ Mohammad Hafeez Finally Returns to Form With a Brilliant Century in KPL FIA Deputy Director, Muhammad Rizwan, said that they traced the accused named Darlington Chimo Osuji during the investigation of a complaint. “Following an…

HBL, in collaboration with the Government of Sindh, inaugurated a COVID-19 Drive-through Vaccination Facility at the National Stadium Karachi. The facility will be operational from 10 AM to 10 PM daily and citizens will be able to avail this drive-through facility, free of charge. The vaccination is being undertaken by the Aga Khan Health Services (AKHS) team. Dr. Azra Fazal Pechuho – Minister of Health & Population Welfare, Government of Sindh, was the chief guest at the inauguration. Saeed Ghani – Minister of Information and Labour, Government of Sindh, Dr. Palitha Mahipala – WHO Representative, Head of Mission in Pakistan,…

More than 150 anti-state trends were launched on Twitter from India and Afghanistan during the last two years, an Anti-State Trends Deep Analytics Report (2019 to 2021) has revealed. According to the report compiled by the Digital Media Wing (DMW) of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MoIB), over 3.7 million tweets were sent against these anti-state trends which lasted over 1,000 hours. ALSO READ Here’s How Pakistan-Made Electronic Voting Machine Actually Works Most of the Twitter accounts involved in these 150 anti-state trends did not have many followers and appeared to be made only for sending tweets against these…

Former South African batsman, Herschelle Gibbs, has named Pakistan as one of the favorites for the upcoming T20 World Cup. Gibbs believes that Pakistan, alongside the arch-rivals, India, and ODI World champions, England, are the favorites to win the T20 World Cup. ALSO READ PCB Confirms Schedule for England’s Historic Tour of Pakistan The 47-year old said that Asian countries would make the most of the conditions in the UAE, and he expects them to go deep in the tournament. Gibbs said that apart from the three favorites, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh will pose a challenge in the mega event…

Pakistan’s veteran all-rounder, Mohammad Hafeez, finally returned to form with a brilliant century in the Kashmir Premier League match between Muzaffarabad Tigers and Mirpur Royals. Hafeez had been struggling for form throughout the year but finally got his touch back as he dismantled the Royals’ bowling unit. ALSO READ PCB Confirms Schedule for England’s Historic Tour of Pakistan Hafeez scored 110 off 55 balls as Muzaffarabad posted 227/6 in the first innings. This was the second century in the inaugural edition of KPL. Previously, wicket-keeper batsman, Zeeshan Ashraf, also a part of Muzaffarabad Tigers, scored the first century of the…

Alongside the launch of Honor’s top-of-the-line Magic3 lineup, the former Huawei subsidiary has introduced the X20 5G device with a couple of standard mid-ranger features such as 5G capability, virtual RAM expansion, and double-sided video recording. ALSO READ Xiaomi Mi Mix 4 Teardown Shows How the Under Screen Camera Works Design and Display The display on the X20 5G is a 6.67-inch FHD+LCD with a 120Hz refresh rate and a pill-shaped camera cutout that houses a 16MP selfie shooter. There is a circular camera setup on the back that looks like Honor took inspiration from Xiaomi’s Poco series. Besides that,…

Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) are secure and will end the reservations of political parties regarding rigging during elections once and for all, Federal Minister for Science and Technology, Senator Shibli Faraz, has claimed. The Minister’s remarks came during a demonstration of an EVM, developed by COMSATS University Islamabad, held at Parliament House for the lawmakers. ALSO READ CDA to Spend Rs. 10 Million to Beautify Melody Food Park Here is how the EVM developed by COMSATS University works The EVM will be started in the presence of the Polling Agents (PAs) and its seal will be closed. When a voter…

China’s Honor, the ex-budget brand of Huawei, has made a sensational return to the flagship space after being released from its embattled parent to escape U.S. export sanctions on vital smartphone components. For starters, the brand has unveiled a new and pristine Magic3 lineup that uses Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 888/888+ 5G chipsets, which are the U.S. chipmaker’s most high-end smartphone processors. The new series is aimed at enabling Honor to regain the global market share that it lost with Huawei, owing to the sanctions. Skipping the dull part, let’s get a whiff of what Honor has created this time. ALSO READ…