Digital banking: Raqami partners with a fintech firm
DigiBanc’s advanced features and modular architecture empower Raqami to deliver a secure, scalable, and customer-centric banking experience.
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Technology
Digital payments: Raqami partners with Euronet
Digital transactions account for an estimated 80% of total retail transactions processed by banks, MFBs, and EMIs, with only 20% accounted for by over-the-counter (OTC) transactions. Similarly, the total number of ATMs now exceeds 18,000 while POS machines have increased to over 100,000.
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WordUp: an award-winning English learning app
English learning app based on Artificial Intelligence (AI), downloaded by over five million users.
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Meta expands digital literacy programme to G-B
The programme has reached 130,000 students and 3,094 teachers across 28 districts of the country providing them with a collection of accessible learning modules that help people think critically and share online thoughtfully, as well as empowering them with the skills needed to be informed and safe online.
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GilgitApp: a startup making its mark in eCommerce
Through GilgitApp, you can buy and sell a wide range of products, including cars, motorbikes, mobile phones, laptops, home appliances, rent a property and pets.
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Billionaires like Musk don’t know about democracy
By Paris Marx Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has bought Twitter. Musk says he’s trying to safeguard democracy and
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We don’t need billionaires like Elon Musk
By Paris Marx Elon Musk’s bid to buy Twitter in the name of free speech is the latest example of
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Youth challenge: 2 teams qualify for global contest
The programme was launched by UNDP, Unicef in collaboration with SoLF in Pakistan High Asia Herald Report Islamabad: Two Pakistani
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PM lays foundation for first IT park in Hunza
Prime Minister Imran Khan today unveiled the plaque at a ceremony in Chinar Bagh here to lay the foundation of the first information technology park located at Nasirabad, Hunza. The IT Park will provide infrastructure with uninterrupted power supply, high-speed internet facility and a co-working space for businesses, start-ups, freelancers and trade bodies.
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Youth engagement key to effective development
YCD project is an initiative under the Programme for Poverty Reduction (PPR) of PPAF which aimed to improve the socio-economic landscape of the most underdeveloped rural areas of Balochistan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) including the ex-FATA region now part of KP
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Women disconnected
News Desk Islamabad: The majority of women face restrictions from their families when using the internet, a new study finds.
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Students demand better telecom service for GB
The people of Gilgit-Baltistan are unable to cope with the situation due to degraded 4G often termed as Long Term Evolution (LTE) and fixed broadband internet services provided by SCO.
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‘New techs must serve, not hinder, right to protest’
News Desk The internet and new digital tools are being manipulated as never before to infringe on people’s right to
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Students protest against nonavailability of internet service
by Gul Nayab Yasin (GB): Frustrated by non-availability of internet connectivity and electricity, students in rural areas across Pakistan, Azad
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Chinese team summit Mount Everest during pandemic
The team is there to re-measure the height of Everest, which is on the two countries’ border A team of
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