PR: In a major move aimed at further driving the cashless ecosystem in Pakistan, Mastercard, a leading technology company in the global payments industry, and Easypaisa, the first and largest mobile financial service (MFS) provider in the country, will now enable Masterpass QR payments for Easypaisa Mobile Account users on the Easypaisa smartphone App. Masterpass […]…Read More

Pakistan and Uzbekistan agree to boost agricultural cooperation

April 24th, 2018 | No Comments

Pakistan and Uzbekistan both the countries agree to boost agricultural cooperation through conventional and biotechnological approaches. They further discussed about sharing of information regarding the suitable agricultural technology for the adaption to the climate change during ministerial meeting between the Sikandar Hayat Bosan Federal Minister for National Food Security and Research and Laziz kudratov Deputy […]…Read More

Catapult, Australian tech going to starts operation to boost Pakistan’s sports

January 18th, 2018 | No Comments

Technology is part of our day to day life. It has also proved its applications in the field of sports. Technology applications like sports officiating technology‎, software‎, sports academies‎ and sports’ broadcast on television. Australian athlete tracking technology, Catapult Sports is going to start its operations in Pakistan to boost Pakistan’s sports by introducing modern […]…Read More

Want to win a beast machine and seriously boost your PC gaming skills?

December 25th, 2017 | No Comments

Mountain Dew is giving away 25 Origin PC Neurons to 25 lucky winners this month! The competition began on 6 December 2017 – 7 winners have been announced on Mountain Dew PK’s Facebook page – 18 PCs remain to be won. The machines have INTEL I3-7350K processors with GPU specs having 4GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX […]…Read More

Agro-industries collaborations can boost economy

October 3rd, 2017 | No Comments

Discussion of agro-industrial investors to increase their role in the economy of the country held at Muhammad Nawaz Sharif University. The aim of discussion was to set direction for new faculty of agricultural and biosystems engineering and technology. Problem faced by agro-based industries, role of agricultural engineering in agro-industries to reduce the cost of production, […]…Read More

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Mastercard and Inov8 boost cashless payments with the launch of Pakistan’s first super app ‘FonePay’

September 26th, 2017 | No Comments

PR: Paying for meals, groceries, transportation, and other everyday transactions more convenient with Masterpass QR. In a collaboration aimed at driving the wider adoption of cashless payments in Pakistan, Mastercard, a leading technology company in the global payments industry, and Inov8 Limited, one of the fastest growing financial technology companies in the region, have teamed up […]…Read More

Deal inked to boost olive production in Potohar region

August 9th, 2017 | No Comments

During the first annual meeting of the Olive Development Group (ODG), USAID Punjab Enabling Environment Project (PEEP) and Allied Foods signed a grant to establish a mobile olive extraction unit. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Government of Punjab established the ODG in May 2016 as part of their combined effort […]…Read More

Pakistan can boost its economy via biotechnology

August 4th, 2017 | No Comments

Among the biotech based crops, Pakistan ranked 7th among 26 countries of the world. It is successful in achieved acceptance of Insect Resistant (IR) biotech cotton grown on 2.9 million hectares. Global Status of Commercialization Biotech/GM Crops – 2016 reported the aforementioned facts at the International Centre for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS) of Karachi […]…Read More

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Special fund for R&D should be created to boost research culture: Dr Shahid

July 6th, 2017 | No Comments

Fifth National Conference on Physics and Emerging Science held at Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU). The Conference intended to create awareness for internationally well-matched quality research work and generating commercially feasible projects that helps the society to overcome its socio-economic problems. Vice Chancellor of AIOU Prof Shahid Siddiqui proclaimed constitution of Special Fund for Research […]…Read More

China asked to boost Pakistan’s SME sector

June 19th, 2017 | No Comments

The Federation of Pakistan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) pointed out that the government must develop an effective strategy to attract Chinese investment in joint ventures in the SME sector which offer low-cost job creation and rapid poverty reduction. Atif Ikram Sheikh, Chairman Federation of Pakistan Chamber of Commerce and Industry Regional Committee on […]…Read More

Pakistan marked World Wildlife Day with firm commitment

April 3rd, 2018 | Hina Baloch | No Comments

“This day gives us the opportunity to renew Pakistan’s commitment for nature conservation and to raise awareness of the importance of the iconic wildlife species,” this was stated by Federal Minister for Climate Change Senator Mushahidullah Khan in the International Wildlife Day 2018 message. He stressed the need for increasing acceptance for wildlife by conversation […]…Read More

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Entrepreneurship ecosystem is nurturing in Pakistan: Rizwan Ali

May 24th, 2015 | Technology Times | No Comments

Rizwan Ali is one of the co-founders of Rashanlelo.pk, foremost online grocery store of Pakistan. Rizwan is qualified, dynamic, and seasoned professional and an exponential variable behind Rashanlelo.pk success. He recently shared his experiences and opinions with Technology Times in an interview Tell us briefly about yourself and your team? Rizwan Ali: We are five founding members named Harris Imtiaz, Faisal Khan, Zeeshan, Asim and myself Rizwan Ali. We all were university…Read More

Economic remediation of Cd contaminated soils along with safe food production from sewage irrigated soils

May 21st, 2018 | Muhammad Zia-ur-Rehman | No Comments

Major agricultural area of Pakistan lies in arid and semi-arid regions and climate changes have worsen the severity in temperature. Less rainfall and increasing demand of fresh water for non-agriculture purpose has caused water shortage for agriculture sector and have necessitated the use of untreated raw city effluents for agriculture which is steeply increasing. These […]…Read More

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Plastic pollution threatening aquatic life

April 3rd, 2018 | No Comments

Freshwater fishes are now the most threatened set of marine life. Most of the threats to freshwater fishes along with other freshwater biological diversity is habitat modification, destruction, overfishing, forestry practice, climate change and water pollution. The rising trend of use of plastic bags, especially possess a huge threat to marine life. The issue of […]…Read More

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Telenor Microfinance Bank and Mastercard to boost cashless payments in Pakistan

May 21st, 2018 | No Comments