Tuesday, December 1st, 2020
Norway registers hottest November since 1900
OSLO, DEC 1 – Temperatures in November were above average last month, according to the Meteorological Institute. A warmer November hasn’t been registered since 1900. Admittedly, this year’s November shares the record with the year’s penultimate month of 2011. November of 2020 nevertheless led to several places experiencing the warmest month of November in over 150 years. New records At Torungen lighthouse near Arendal, at Lista in Agder, and at Utsira in Rogaland, it has never been warmer in November since the measurements started in 1867, according to Norwegian BroadcastingRead More
Oslo’s New Year’s fireworks canceled due to infection control considerations
OSLO – The New Year’s fireworks in Oslo are canceled due to infection control considerations, the municipality states. “An assessment has been made of whether the event could take place within the infection control rules and the guidelines that are available today, but the municipality can not see how to move forward without it leading to accumulations of people and greater risk of infection,” the Urban Environment Agency wrote in a press release. Richard Kongsteien, communications director at the Urban Environment Agency, says it is a sad but correct thingRead More
ChildLife Foundation selected oracle cloud infrastructure to help expand life-saving operations
DNA Islamabad —December 01: ChildLife Foundation (ChildLife) has selected Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to support its third party hospital management system application. As a result, ChildLife has significantly increased the utilization of the application by improving its availability and performance, at a reduced cost. This is helping it direct the maximum amount of funding and resource towards achieving its mission: providing quality and free-of-cost emergency healthcare to every child in Pakistan. ChildLife operates in 21 hospitals with 10 state-of-the-art, model emergency rooms in all public-teaching hospitals across Sindh and Baluchistan provinces and 11Read More
JWG reviews the progress of Gwadar projects
DNA ISLAMABAD, DEC 1 – The fifth Meeting of the Joint Working Group on Gwadar was held through a video link, Gwadar Pro reported on Tuesday. The meeting reviewed the progress of projects in Gwadar. Both sides expressed satisfaction over the progress made in port development and the Chinese side appreciated the support provided by Pakistan in the port operationalization, particularly enabling the Afghan transit trade through Gwadar. The meeting was co-chaired by Secretary Ministry of Planning, Development and Special Initiatives (PD&SI) Mathar Niaz Rana from the Pakistan side andRead More
Masood Alam Rizvi appointed as Secy General FPCCI
Karachi (DNA) Mian Anjum Nisar, President of the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) has appointed Masood Alam Rizvi as the Secretary General of the organization with effect from the 1st of December, 2020 in accordance with rules and procedures laid out in Trade Organization Ordinance of Pakistan. Mr. Masood Alam Rizvi has a long experience of serving both in the public and private sectors. Starting his carrier as Assistant Commissioner and rising up to the level of Federal Secretary. After retirement he served in the private sectorRead More
Easypaisa Bags Internationally Acclaimed Emerging Payments Award for 2020
ISLAMABAD, DEC 1 (DNA) – Easypaisa, Pakistan’s leading digital payments platform has yet again added another feather to its cap by winning the Emerging Payments Award 2020 for the ‘Best Financial Inclusion Payments Initiative’. The renowned mobile banking platform was one of the two winners, out of four contestants, to bag the awards. The winners were announced recently at the virtual Emerging Payments Awards Ceremony, streamed online for the global community to participate. The Awards celebrate innovation and collaboration by recognizing companies that have made significant advances in payments. NowRead More