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Madeeha Usman FCCA, an ACCA qualified professional accountant from Pakistan, who’s currently running a business ‘The Kalculators’ in Australia has won four awards at a recently held Ausmumpreneur awards. The AusMumpreneur Awards are presented by ‘The Women’s Business School’ and were created to inspire, celebrate and provide a community for Australian entrepreneurs, like Madeeha. After receiving this news, Madeeha said she was excited to win in all the four categories in the 2020 AusMumpreneur Awards in such a challenging time. She was declared winner in following four categories: People Choice Customer Service Award Rising Star Award Business Excellence Award, WA…

Karachi (Muhammad Yasir) Sports legend ShahidAfridi has said that the government and private schools after their reopening should religiously follow the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for COVID 19 given by the state, as any leniency in this regard is likely to create irreversible damage to the health of students, teachers and communities at large, in addition to the cause of education that already has been adversely effected over the past six months. “These SOPs should not be neglected as like any other set of government’s rules that are generally disregarded by us as a national habit like the traffic laws…

Karachi (Muhammad Yasir) The Centre for Excellence in Journalism (CEJ) at the IBA Karachi conducted an interactive online workshop on internal newsroom dynamics in collaboration with Deutsche Welle (DW) on September 11, 2020. The title of the workshop was The Elephant in the Newsroom: a conversation about bullying and toxic newsroom cultures. The session was moderated by senior journalist Shahzeb Jillani, who is working at DW’s Digital newsroom in Bonn. He has worked in many roles in Pakistani newsrooms, both print and television and as a multimedia journalist for radio and digital in Beirut, Washington, London. He was joined by…

Karachi (Muhammad Yasir) The IBA Karachi reopened for the Fall 2020 academic session under strict compliance of the COVID-19 government guidelines. After being away from campus for more than six months, the staff and faculty members, finally welcomed the students to Main and City campus. The Executive Director, Dr. S. Akbar Zaidi and the Registrar, Dr. Mohammad Asad Ilyas, were present at each campus to warmly welcome the students.  Special measures, developed especially for the ongoing pandemic, were enforced for staff, faculty, students, and visitors at both campuses. Classes were held as per government guidelines to maintain social distancing protocol…

Lahore (Muhammad Yasir) Haleeb Foods (HFL) one of the pioneer dairy and beverages company of Pakistan delivers PKR 1 million financial assistance collected through its social-development initiative “Donate to Educate – Agay Barhay Ga Pakistan”. To support Free of Cost Education for children of underprivileged communities, Haleeb had partnered with Master Ayub for this cause. For the past 30 years, Master Ayub has been educating street children, Free of Cost, in a Park-School, in Islamabad. With a pledge to provide financial assistance to Master Ayub, to support his selfled cause, Haleeb initiated a campaign to donate 3 rupees, per liter pack…

The best thing to consider if you are planning to study abroad is to get an insight into all the required processes and the value that degree will add to your professional career. One such platform which helps aspiring students pick the right path is IDP, International Education Specialists. IDP Education is a world leader in international student placement services and a leading event management company of global education events and conferences. With a network of over 100 international student placement centers, IDP has a global presence in more than 32 countries. IDP Pakistan in associations with its partner institutions in UK,…

(Muhammad Yasir) Lahore 6th September 2020, The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan (ICAP) and Institute of Business Administration (IBA)  laid the foundation of exclusive ICAP-IBA Research Unit (IIRU)  on Friday 4th September with aim to promote research in the field of accounting and finance. The two institutes expressed their intention to promote research and development in Pakistan by attracting and retaining outstanding scholars having research interest in the areas relevant to the profession, including finance, accounting, auditing, corporate governance and taxation. ICAP and IBA sponsors of the IIRU will provide the requisite funding, in shape of grants to the…

Provision of financial assistance to 2 NTHP students Support will cover all admission, tuition, hostel and mess charges Karachi (Muhammad Yasir)  The Habib Metropolitan Bank Limited (HMBL) launched HABIBMETRO Scholarship Award at an MOU signing ceremony held at the IBA Karachi. The President & CEO HMBL, Mr. Mohsin Ali Nathani, and the Executive Director, IBA Karachi, Dr. S Akbar Zaidi signed the agreement through which two (2) undergraduate students from the IBA National Talent Hunt Program (NTHP) will be financed for the duration of their studies. As per the agreement, the scholarships will be awarded on a need-cum-merit basis, keeping…

Participants from 13 cities across the country ready to take on new job opportunities Lahore (Muhammad Yasir) Google recently held a virtual graduation event celebrating the first cohort of graduates from its inaugural Google Cloud student developer program in Pakistan. Called CloudSeekho, the initiative by Google is aimed at helping students learn cloud skills at home at their own pace and prepare themselves with job-ready skills. The initiative consists of self-study online labs provided by Google’s QwikLabs platform for student developers in Pakistan where they are able to learn cloud skills and technologies on Google Cloud Platform. Launched in June,…

Lahore (Muhammad Yasir) The Huawei ICT Academy program will increase the number of training slots for Pakistani students four fold, from 800 per year to over 3,000 per year. A strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to this effect was signed between the Higher Education Commission (HEC) and Huawei Technologies Pakistan. Under the MoU, Huawei ICT Academies will be established in eight new universities,which will join existing 15 academies by the end of 2020, bringing the total number of universities to 23. In addition, the Training Academies in 5 of the existing universities will be upgraded. The program will provide important…