1 Texas Longhorns face off against the No. 4 Louisville Cardinals in the NCAA Tournament national championship match trying to reverse the only unsettling trend in head coach Jerritt Elliott’s superlative tenure — a 1-4 record in the final. “We’ve got a lot of respect for what Louisville does and the competitive team they have. Louisville has already made history, becoming the first Cardinals team to play for a national championship, as well as the first ACC team to do so. If Louisville does win, Dani Busboom Kelly will become the first woman catch to secure a national title.

LAHORE: In a bid to promote extreme athletes activities, for the first time in history, the work of recording the wingsuit path in the style of Google Maps has started in Pakistan. Nasir informed that his company was promoting extreme sports with the collaboration of his two partners, one of whom is American and British. This became a record that no one has ever made before in Pakistan,” he said. However, no one has yet used a chopper for wingsuits or skydiving. If such expenses are sponsored, these activities can be continued in a good way and foreign tourists will also visit Pakistan for these activities, which will also benefit the economy of Pakistan,” he concluded.

Share:After days of speculation, anticipation, and apprehension that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s "final" plan to dissolve two provincial assemblies could face long delay, the deposed premier and PTI chief Imran Khan announced to dissolve the Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa assemblies on December 23 (Friday). “You can ask any industrialist, labour, and farmer; their finances cannot be managed amid the ongoing economic situation," Imran continued. Imran Khan expressed his concerns saying that the ruling coalition might not hold general elections even in October 2023. Slamming the Electoral watchdog’s Sikandar Sultan Raja , the PTI chief said that "The election commission is conniving with them. A very dishonest man is involved with them, who will tell them ways to delay elections.”

The Pentagon's new push to investigate reports of UFOs has so far not yielded any evidence to suggest that aliens have visited Earth or crash-landed here, senior military leaders said on Friday. However, the Pentagon's effort to investigate anomalous, unidentified objects -- whether they are in space, the skies or even underwater -- led to hundreds of new reports that are now being investigated, they say. But so far they have seen nothing that indicates intelligent alien life. We will go through it all," Kirkpatrick said, speaking at the first news conference since AARO was established in July. In 1994, the Air Force said it had completed a study to locate records relating to the 1947 "Roswell incident" in New Mexico.

The PML-N leadership has reportedly given a green signal to submit a motion of no-confidence in the provincial assembly in a bid to prevent the possible dissolution of the provincial assembly by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). As per PML-N sources, the no-confidence motion was signed by party members and they were directed to gather in the office of former provincial education minister Rana Mashhood Ahmed Khan. Read: Sticking to assemblies’ dissolution in December: ImranThe members of the Punjab Assembly are expected to submit the no-confidence motion soon. The PML-N has started contacting the Assembly Secretariat to submit the motion as the secretariat is closed on Saturdays and Sundays. The party has reportedly decided to dissolve the Punjab Assembly in the initial phase, while the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Assembly in the second phase.

Lucknow: A book reading session of “NilaaZewar” translated from German Language by Dr Shipra Chaturvedi,was organised by Metaphor literature festival at hotel Lebua. Fortunately, she was rescued by Austrian police, began herlife afresh, raised her children and gave meaning to all the lives she touched. The book reading and a conversationthereafter was conducted by Mr. P K Tiwari. The book reading programmewas attended by people from varied backgrounds. Their active participationmade the conversation livelier and unfurled various colours of the novel.

By Johnny SandersSports EditorTuesday night, Pinson Valley welcomed fellow 6A and cross-town rival Center Point Eagles to their gym but they were not very welcoming. Meanwhile, the defense held Center Point to just 7 points in the first frame. Center Point continued to struggle getting anything going, scoring just 6 in the period. Leading scorers for Center Point were Jeremy Chatman with 23 points and Khryston Travis with 6 points. Center Point, now 4-7, will try to rebound against the Clay Chalkville Cougars Thursday night.

Share:LAHORE - Chief Minister Punjab Chaudhry Parvez Elahi has said the nation sa­lutes great sacrificesof the Army Public School (APS) martyrs. In his message on the anniversary of mar­tyrs of the Army Public School Peshawar, he said that the martyrs of APS united Pakistani nation against terror­ism. The December 16 would always remind us of the great sacri­fices of the martyrs of Army Public School and the nation would always remember the everlasting sacrifices of the children and teachers of Army Pub­lic School, he added. The CM said that children laid the foun­dation of a safe and peaceful Pakistan with their precious blood, adding small flowers offered their precious lives for a great cause. Parvez Elahi reiter­ated that the great sac­rifices of the martyred children gave new cour­age and determination to the nation.

Rich tributes were paid to the victims of the Army Public School (APS) massacre on the eighth anniversary of the tragic attack here on Friday. The parents of victims laid a floral wreath on the yadgar-e-shuhada inside the school and offered fateha. Parents of the APS victims stage protestMeanwhile, the parents of the APS victims staged a protest in Peshawar, demanding justice for their children. They said that till this day they had no idea who carried the attack at APS and what was the main purpose for this manslaughter. It may be mentione d here that government claim that all the facilitators of the APS attack had been arrested, convicted and hanged but the families of the martyrs are not satisfied with the explanation.

LAHORE: Religious leaders Friday said the separation of East Pakistan will always be a deep incurable wound on the soul of Pakistani nation. Tanzeem Islami ameer Shujauddin Sheikh said the fall of Dhaka was the result of not giving the ideology of Pakistan-Islam-a practical shape. He said the Dhaka fall happened because of subjecting people of East Pakistan to excessive force. Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP) ameer Hafiz Saad Hussain Rizvi said December 16 had given the nation incurable deep wounds in the form of Dhaka fall and carnage at APS Peshawar. Dhaka fall tragedy taught us that if no hurdle is created in the way of transparent fair elections, then all problems could be solved, he maintained.

Share:UNITED NATIONS - Pakistan on Friday said that it would not tolerate cross-border terrorism by the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) or other terrorist groups and that the country reserved the right to take direct action against them. We reserve the right to take direct action against them,” the foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said addressing an event to commemorate the 8th anniversary of the terrorist attack on Army Public School in Peshawar held here at the UN Headquarters. The attack was claimed by the so-called Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), an entity listed as a terrorist organization by the Security Council and many Member States, he added. “This terrorist attack was particularly heinous because the clear aim of the terrorists was to kill children. The foreign minister told the gathering that he had also lost his mother in a terrorist attack carried out by the same terrorist organisation.

GDB 31.0 Wrap Up: Brutal mistakes in the defensive zone allowed the Blues to come back, win 4-3 in the shootoutI’m so annoyed. Final Score: 4-3 Blues in the shootoutWelcome to our Oilers game day content presented by NHL lines site Betway! So when Zach Hyman opened the scoring just over a minute into the period with a power play goal, it was hard to imagine a better start than the one the Oilers got. At the end of the day, mistakes cost the Oilers a win and it was the same guy that was responsible for both. Sometimes I think back to the Eakins era and how frustrating it was to have the Oilers go through power play after power play without being able to score, and how different that is from where we’re at now.

For Fresno State, DB Chrishawn Gordon (Valley Center) has played in all 13 games and has 15 tackles. Sims, a transfer from Illinois, has 10 carries in six games while Allen has played in four games. • RB Aiden Calvert (Mater Dei Catholic) has played in four games for Air Force, which plays Baylor in Thursday’s Armed Forces Bowl. Pre-New Year’s games• Freshman Gracen Halton (St. Augustine) has played in nine games with 10 tackles for Oklahoma, which plays Florida State in the Dec. 29 Cheez-It Bowl. Jan. 2 games• Utah has a local player on each side of the ball for its Rose Bowl match with Penn State.

The prime minister said Pakistan was following investor-friendly policies to encourage the foreign businessmen explore the investment opportunities. The business group of Naguib Sawiris has made successful investments in telecommunication and real estate sectors in Pakistan. Housing societies and modern residential buildings for overseas PakistanisMeanwhile, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday directed the authorities concerned to develop housing societies and modern residential buildings for overseas Pakistanis in the federal capital. The senior officers of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) briefed the prime minister on the prospects of investment by overseas Pakistanis in the housing sector. The prime minister also directed for proper marketing of the CDA’s projects which had the potential to attract investment.

PhD candidate Muhammad Haris and Professor Nicky Eshtiaghi (left to right) with the magnetic material that they developed into adsorbents that remove microplastics and dissolved pollutants from water. A magnet attracts the material that the team used to make adsorbents that remove microplastics and dissolved pollutants from water. “Existing methods could take days to remove microplastics from water, while our cheap and sustainable invention achieves better results in just one hour,” said the lead researcher, Professor Nicky Esthtiaghi in a statement published by Australia’s RMIT University. By contrast, conventional purification techniques take days to complete, and even only capture plastic particles of few millimeters but tinier microplastics were unable to be captured before this invention. When wastewater passes through the structure, it captures the invisible plastic particles and other pollutants.