ABU DHABI: In a world first, Abu Dhabi Airports has partnered with Meta Touch, a ground-breaking UAE company, to deploy new touchless technology across 53 elevators at Abu Dhabi International Airport (AUH), helping to prevent cross-infection from interacting with elevator buttons and enable a Covid-19-free airport environment. The new technology, Tchk (Touch-less Keypad Technology), was designed and manufactured by Meta Touch, a start-up based at the UAE University Science and Innovation Park (UAEU SIP), which develops innovative solutions designed to support health and safety. Tchk is a touchless control panel that allows users to command an elevator without physically pressing…
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DUBAI: Emirates resumed its flight operations from Pakistan, operating flights from Karachi and Lahore to Dubai. The first scheduled flight from Islamabad will take off on Thursday. The resumption comes after over two months of travel restrictions imposed globally due to the Covid-19 outbreak. Emirates is operating 14 weekly flights to Dubai, including seven from Karachi, five from Lahore and two from Islamabad using its modern Boeing 777-300ER aircraft. “We are extremely pleased to resume services successfully from Pakistan, and thank the authorities for the arrangements and their assistance. Emirates has implemented a comprehensive set of measures at every step…
MADRID: Spain will open up land borders with France and Portugal on June 22 and also aims to start welcoming tourists to some islands and other areas that have the coronavirus under control around the same time, a minister said on Thursday. Frontiers with France and Portugal have been shut to everyone but Spaniards, cross-border workers and truck drivers since a mid-March lockdown to curb what was then one of the world’s worst coronavirus outbreaks. But with its rate of deaths and infections sharply down, Spain is among nations trying to gradually restore freedom of movement in Europe’s usually border-free…
NEW DELHI: India will throw open shopping malls, restaurants and places of worship that typically attract large crowds next week, officials said, even though coronavirus infections are rising at the fastest daily rate than at any time in the past three months. Anxious to jump-start an economy crippled by COVID-19 and put millions of people back to work, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is dismantling its vast lockdown of the 1.3 billion population imposed in March. Strict guidelines will accompany the loosening of restrictions on Monday, however. Hotel guests will be tested for fever, masks will be compulsory at all…
BEIJING: Endless theme park queues and sold-out ticket booths never looked better as China’s “cooped-up” consumers are stepping out again after the COVID-19 outbreak has been largely brought under control domestically. Hotel bookings have returned to about 50 percent of normal levels, while airlines have generally resumed operations at more than half of their capacity, based on information from industry leaders. According to the Government Report, China will extend the exemption of value-added taxes for the tourism industry until the end of the year, and will support the recovery and development of tourism as part of efforts to shore up…
KARACHI: The Civil Aviation Authority has given permission to repair the main runway at Lahore’s Allama Iqbal airport, according to a notification. The 18-L runaway at the airport has been closed for all the flights and the airlines have been told to use run away 36-L instead. The work on the main runway will start on June 4 and it will reopen on August 4 for domestic and international flights, the CAA said. In a very surprising way, the CAA also instructed the airlines to curtail the number of passengers in order to reduce the weight of planes. It warned…
GILGIT: Government of Gilgit-Baltistan has decided to impose a 14-day stricter lockdown in Gilgit, Skardu, Astore and Hunza districts to curtail the spread of Coronavirus. Addressing the meeting of Provincial Coordination Committee, Chief Minister Gilgit-Baltistan has said that the step was being taken on the recommendations of health experts, Home and Health Departments and law enforcement agencies. Medical stores, shops of essential items, vegetable vendors and businesses affiliated with construction industry will be allowed to operate under stricter SOPs. The meeting has decided that people from other parts of the country will not be allowed to enter Gilgit-Baltistan. They said…
ISLAMABAD: The Tourism Recovery Action Committee (TRAC) has formulated a three-pronged strategy to mitigate socio-economic impact of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) on tourism sector which has been remained closed since impositions of the lockdowns across the country for containing the virus spread. The TRAC also developed the standard operating procedures (SOPs) for hotels and accommodation facilities, food outlets/eateries, tours operator companies, tourist transportation and airlines to address issue of health, hygiene and safety of the tourists, employees and businesses. The committee was formed by the National Tourism Coordination board (NTCB) recently to evolve immediate support measures for tourism businesses and…
DOHA: Qatar Airways’ share of the passenger and air cargo market has grown significantly over the past three months, marking Qatar Airways the current largest passenger airline and the largest cargo airline in the world. Qatar Airways Cargo has prioritised medical and aid shipments working closely with governments and NGOs to transport over 200,000 tonnes of essential supplies to impacted regions. The airline has continued to operate a significant schedule operating over 15,000 flights to take over 1.8 million people home. Qatar Airways Cargo has become the leader in global air freight since the blockade was imposed on June 5,…
KARACHI At this point in time, survival of some ancient rock art may not be the most important item in Pakistan, but here it is anyway. There is a possibility that due to the construction of the Diamer-Basha Dam, some 30,000 carvings and inscriptions will sink in water and will vanish forever. [huge_it_slider id=”553″] A collage of carvings and inscriptions of different periods has pointed that this extraordinary heritage is on the brink of destruction on the proposed site of the Diamer-Basha Dam. The mountainous region of Pakistan which lies between the western Himalayas, the Korakoram in the east and…