Tech Illusions

  Beaconhouse, Pakistan’s largest network of private educational institutions organized a quiz competition titled ‘Ubhartay Sitaray’ at the Walton Campus. The quiz was based on the general knowledge curriculum for Classes I and II in accordance with the 'National Curriculum of Pakistan’. It is the first time that Beaconhouse has added an additional school subject in Urdu, which addresses key concepts from General Science, Social Sciences and Ethics. This competition was designed to provide students with an opportunity to showcase their newly-learned skills and celebrate their Urdu language competency. Chief Guest, Prof. Dr. Taimur Rehman from LUMS along with Principal Beaconhouse Walton Campus Miss. Tehmina Lodhi, students, parents and teachers attended the competition. Four teams from Lahore, Rawalpindi, Multan and Islamabad reached the final round. Lahore Model Town G17 campus team won the competition. The quiz competition was based on an innovative interdisciplinary approa...

ACCA’s Public Sector Conference looks at the challenges facing thepublic sector and suggests ways forward to transform the sector The public sector needs to respond to multiple global challenges to create a safe, sustainable, and prosperous future that works for all.  ACCA’s virtual public sector conference explored the challenges and the solutions that face public sector financial professionals as they work towards transforming the public sector. Such a task would be a challenge at any time but it is made significantly harder by a combination of war, high rates of inflation and a pressing climate challenge.  Accountancy is at the centre of public sector transformation. Finance professionals need the rightskills to improve financial management and drive policy and spending decisions. New thinking in the public sector has never been more important and the conference heard about ACCA’s recently published guides on professionalising the public sector, launched with IFAC on ...

In the current era of technology, TCL is one of the leading television manufacturers in the world. They have been awarded more than 5,000 awards in more than 200 countries around the world for their excellence in product quality and design. TCL has catered to the entertainment niche for people of all ages, be it families in their TV lounges or gamers in their competitions. In addition to providing top-quality products, TCL XL Collection TV is designed for big-screen entertainment and offers an impressive 75 inches of screen real estate with four times more pixels than standard HD TVs! The latest series of televisions are engineered with 4K HDR 10+ and Dolby Vision IQ high dynamic range (HDR) technology to deliver exceptional picture performance with vivid color contrast and brightness levels that exceed those of traditional LCD TVs while supporting all HDR formats including Dolby Vision™ technology from Netflix® or VUDU® UHD content from Google Play™ Movies & TV and more! Thi...

Syngenta Pakistan Limited, a leading agriculture innovation and technology company – providing crop protection, biologicals, seeds, crop enhancement products and digital services to millions of Pakistani farmers, has pledged a donation of PKR 3 million to The Citizens Foundation (TCF) for the rehabilitation of TCF school in Badin district of Sindh province which was impacted by the recent floods. In 2022, Pakistan witnessed unprecedented heavy rains and super floods which have caused devastation across the country. The education sector was not an exception to this havoc whereby over 2 million children were left without education as floods destroyed 27000 schools. The longer the schools remain closed, the greater the risk of children dropping out of school and facing learning losses emerge. In Badin alone, over 250,000 people and approximately 48,800 families have been badly affected due to floods. Syngenta Pakistan, being a socially responsible organization, has stepped up to support t...

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ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) backs green budgeting for the public sector everywhere to implement climate commitments and achieve their environmental goals. In  Green budgeting: a toolkit for public sector finance professionals  published today, ACCA sets out the reasons for considering green budgeting and the methods that can be adopted. It highlights the crucial role that finance professionals must play in making action on climate change a reality. John Lelliott, OBE, FCCA, chair of ACCA’s Global Forum for Sustainability and former finance director at the UK Crown Estate, wrote a foreword to the toolkit. He says: ‘Action to address the climate crisis requires change across the entire public sector. Climate considerations must be central to public sector organisations’ decision-making processes. The budget cycle is at the heart of the way organisations implement their objectives.’ Green budgeting supports progress towards national and internati...

  Syngenta Pakistan Limited, a leading agriculture innovation and technology company - providing crop protection, biologicals, seeds, crop-enhancement products and digital services to millions of Pakistani farmers, has successfully launched the updated version of its “Cropwise Grower” app which will now allow the farmers to conveniently detect and diagnose crop pests & diseases by simply taking a picture of a crop while also guiding farmers about the recommended products and application technology – all in 5 seconds time with over 93% accuracy versus the usual human accuracy of 72%. This ‘Snap, Diagnosis and Solution’ feature, powered by an artificial intelligence technology company called Plantix, gives a competitive edge to the Cropwise Grower app among all the other locally-available apps – this is a first-of-its-kind offering in the crop protection industry. The Cropwise Grower app also provides growers with access to agronomic advice, weather forecasts,   recomme...

This International Children’s Day, Peek Freans Gluco has launched a new rhyme, ‘Qadam Barhaein Hum’ in their popular series in the children’s edutainment category, called Gluco Kahani. This rhyme comes as a gift to Gluco Kahani’s young fans through which they can learn social, moral, and ethical values in their national language Urdu. Gluco Kahani is a platform launched under the umbrella of Peek Freans Gluco in partnership with Bilal Maqsood and Talisman Animation featuring rhymes in our local language with the agenda to give purposeful content to our future generation. Together with Bilal’s soulful voice, these rhymes directed by Umer Adil, provide quality content with invaluable life lessons for children. Our latest rhyme relays a meaningful and heart touching message in the context of the difficult times Pakistan is experiencing – that of catastrophic floods faced by millions of Pakistanis. ‘ Qadam Barhaein Hum’  is a metaphoric depiction of the nation coming together to help t...

To promote the spirit of eSports, Pakistan’s No.1 LED TV brand, TCL Electronics, brought the biggest Football E-Gaming Event, “TCL Gamers League,” to Karachi and Lahore, with a massive prize pool of PKR 1.5 million. The Grand Finale was organized at Packages Mall, Lahore, on November 20, where 24 finalists competed to win fantastic prizes, which included cash prizes and TCL LED TVs. TCL Gamers League recorded a massive footfall of more than 10,000 people who attended the thrilling event full of exciting games and many prizes for participants. Regarding the event, TCL marketing Head Mr. Majid Khan Niazi commented, “TCL is delighted to promote esports culture in Pakistan. We look forward to strategically facilitating such initiatives and promoting young talent from all over Pakistan. We aim to carry this trend and make this a yearly affair where young individuals and families can participate and have a great experience.” TCL has remained the leading player in the Global Consumer Electron...

  Free Fire Pakistan has released a live action music video featuring cricket superstars Babar Azam, Shadab Khan, Shaheen Afridi and Shoaib Malik as superheroes. The veteran and the Runner ups for the T20 World Cup have been in the limelight for their heroics on and off the field and befittingly feature as Superheroes in this action packed film.   Pakistan's favorite cricket players have appeared in a live action film for the first time, as they each offer their own cricket bundles in the world’s most popular battle royale game. Users will have the opportunity to see their cricketing heroes as superheroes and use their in-game bundles. Babar Azam commented on the collaboration, saying, "It brings me enormous joy to represent Free Fire, the brand that has been driving the Esports revolution in Pakistan. Through this effective collaboration we are bringing something unique for our fans and I really hope they love it.” "It's an honour to join the renowned group of Free F...