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A surprise Yuletide visitor has brought us a wonderful Christmas present Last week Bunny and I received a surprise visit from a bearer of gifts who, in our minds, had long become a myth. No, it wasn’t Santa Claus. It was someone even more legendary: a postman. We couldn’t remember the last time we’d been visited by, or even seen, a real postman, a species distinct from the ubiquitous couriers. Along with gramophones, black-and-white TVs, and other relics, postmen have disappeared from our lives as though they’d never existed, having been vanished by a wave of the magical wand of digital technology, of laptops, and emails, and smartphones. The postman brought us a Christmas card from friends in London, Roopa and Dan. Like postmen, greetings cards, Christmas or any other, have been dematerialised, banished by the same digitised wizardry as postmen, being replaced by computer-generated graphics and emojis. When Bunny and I lived in Calcutta, every Yuletide season we’d hang up the Christmas and New Year cards we’d get from distant friends and relations, who in turn would get the cards we’d send out in an unbreakable tradition. We’d decide which charitable cause card we’d get – CRY, or HelpAge, or the World Wildlife Fund – and draw up a list of all those we’d send them to. Then there were the postage stamps to be got, from the Park Street post office. We knew the postal rates for the cards to be delivered within the country, but the postage for the ones meant for foreign shores had to be ascertained from the post office. The envelopes for the cards being sent abroad would carefully have to be marked CARD ONLY and BY AIR MAIL, to which PAR AVION would be added if we wanted to sound French, to obviate the possibility of their being shipped off by sea to arrive at their destination in the middle of next summer. The postman’s visit vividly brought all this back to us. The card wasn’t the only thing the postman gave us. He also gave us the gift of memory of times long past. Maybe, after all, he was Santa Claus in disguise.My Turn: A line in the sandShadi Bartsch Remember the story about the elephant seen from different perspectives? Here’s a twist. A biologist with a telescope peered at the animal and said, I see a hairy grayness horizon to horizon. A toenail fungus specialist examined its feet, and prescribed antibiotics. A climate change specialist didn’t see the elephant because he was fixated on plucking the dry grass. A physicist looked at the elephant and had nothing to say. Elon Musk was there, and he told them not to waste their time standing around an elephant. We need results in quantum mechanics, he explained; we need superconductivity at room temperature, we need research piped straight to technology. We need science to serve technology, which as you know improves man’s condition. This may not be the story as you remember it, but I assure you that a few things about it are true. The people around the elephant are scientists, but even in science, we can only see with the tools we have, and we create those tools in anticipation of what we might see. As a result, we are limited in our capacity to break out of this circle. We are primed to see or not in a certain way. However, breakouts can and do happen — often when two incommensurate ideas meet each other. Consider what happened when homo economicus or “economic man,” theory met psychology: a new field was born, behavioral psychology. Or consider the friction between gravity and God, a meeting of concepts that caused a huge shift in human society’s relationship to astronomy and divinity. Second, it’s not by chance that the examples cross the bridge between what we call humanistic knowledge and what we call science. Their conceptual distance from each other results in the possibility for innovation. The role played by metaphors in biology introduces future paths for research. Schizophrenics have a better prognosis when they are told they’re like shamans. Darwin’s nature acts, despite herself, as a causal force — like the very God that evolution puts into question. Falling in love felt so powerful that the ancients thought seeing the love object caused a wound in your eyes. It worked well with the theory that eyes emitted rays. You cannot, it turns out, take the human out of the science. Third, in separating the humanities and science, we are voting to blind ourselves for the future and to deplete the richness of multiple perspectives on reality. Worse, our now-isolated sciences are in danger of being kidnapped and reared as technology’s handmaiden. It wasn’t always so: the Aristotles, Leonardos and al-Haythams — even the Turings — had an intellectual background that incorporated the humanities, the social sciences, and the sciences, and their discoveries came out of that multifaceted approach. Now we have teams of specialists working for market-minded research that is not about truth, or even the search for truth, but for profit. Science is done at scale, and that is making a huge difference to its relationship to other fields of knowledge. There’s a place where we can intervene, but no one seems to be doing it. That place is higher education. We could teach our students that there is no hard boundary between science and humanistic learning. We could teach them how these fields influence each other. We could take down the hard walls around different fields, both bureaucratically and literally. Instead, we reproduce these unhealthy gulfs in our university’s outdated departments and divisions, which generate the kind of specialist knowledge without context that is our growing problem. If we want education to be relevant to the bigger problems we all face, this has to change. Perhaps the public feels this already, or our colleges wouldn’t be in a crisis of irrelevance. We need to put these forms of knowledge back together so that they can work with each other. Shadi Bartsch is a professor in humanities at the University of Chicago and former director of the Institute on the Formation of Knowledge.king fish 。

The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo had conferred a Presidential Charter on The Ensign Global College, has received a Presidential Charter making it s fully fledged university to offer its own degrees, diplomas and certificates. Now known as the Ensign Global University, the university college established in 2014, for the nearly eight was was affiliated with the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) , Kumasi. The President , Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo- Addo who conferred the Presidential Charter on the private tertiary institution at a ceremony in Accra on Thursday underscored his government’s commitment to academic excellence, innovation and nation-building. The President of the University , Professor Stephen C Adler sharing his joy over the achievement of the academic milestone, expressed gratitude to President Akufo-Addo and reiterated the College’s vision to be a world-class academic institution, built upon a foundation of excellence in public health and service, that promotes prosperity and growth in Africa. “The awarding of a Presidential Charter to Ensign Global College ushers in a new era of growth and impact for our beloved institution. “We aim to use this newly acquired status as an independent private institution of higher education to extend our impact solving the great challenges facing Ghana, Africa and the world. We are now poised to extend our reach by expanding our work in public health while we introduce new programmatic areas to respond to the needs essential to achieving prosperity. We will do this through graduates who are highly competent and innovative leaders, research and knowledge curation that leads to groundbreaking solutions, and engaged service with people, communities, and institutions around the world, “ he said. Prof Adler said as part of its new initiatives, Ensign Global University will be launching new health and safety programmes aimed at addressing emerging threats, particularly those caused by environmental degradation. Additionally, the President of the Ensign Global university was committed to tackling human trafficking as a public health issue and will facilitate the Master of Business Creation programme, run by the University of Utah in the United States. According to him, Ensign was a private, not-for-profit, non-sectarian tertiary institution located in Kpong in the Eastern Region of the country renowned for training global leaders in public health with innovative academic programmes that addresses rapidly evolving health challenges in Ghana. The university was currently running a Master of Public Health (MPH) programme accredited by the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) with its MPH Programme also accredited by the US-based and globally recognised Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH). The College was established by Dr. Lynnette and Bob Gay in 2014 out of their desire and passion to transform public health education in West Africa. For the past 10 years, it has worked towards transforming public health education in Ghana through its public health professional training and initiatives such as the Health2Go project, Centre for Global Surgery and Centre for Medical Innovation. It also recently inaugurated a newly completed Centre for Leadership, Innovation, and Prosperity (CLIP). BY TIMES REPORTERIt's the most wonderful time of the year! It's the time of year when you rekindle past friendships, visit with family, and look forward to putting together your seventh mock draft in three days as the Chicago Bears have been out of the playoff picture since Halloween. Another year, another disappointing season for the Bears' faithful. The team continues to reel and limp toward the conclusion of the season despite Caleb Williams being on the cusp of breaking franchise records held by Erik Kramer. It's fitting that as we air our grievances towards this team in Festivus fashion, the franchise passing yards leader shares his namesake with the cooky next-door neighbor to Jerry Seinfeld. So, I wanted to ask my brethren at On Tap Sports what their Christmas wish would be if given their druthers and afforded one wish granted by St. Nick himself. No constraints. No holds barred. Let's fix the Bears on Christmas – a Christmas miracle if you will, and this team could be poised to win its first playoff game under the leadership of George McCaskey. Seth Conklin : Give me the Lions' offensive line It would be simple and practical, and would fix an issue that Ryan Poles has not been able to remedy in his three years as the Bears' General Manager. It's equal parts infuriating and awe-inspiring to watch the Detroit Lions pick up five yards any time they elect to run behind future Hall-of-Fame right tackle Penei Sewell. When Brad Holmes was brought into Detroit alongside Dan Campbell, their focus on fixing the offensive line was a crucial mission from the jump. The Lions had a solid bulwark to work with prior to Campbell's arrival, with left tackle Taylor Decker and center Frank Ragnow being budding stars but not fully developed. When Holmes and Campbell drafted Penei Sewell in 2021 and signed guard Kevin Zeitler this offseason, their line propelled to tops in the league. It's been a methodical construction for the Lions' line, one that is constantly being supplemented both in free agency and through the draft. Resources are consistently poured into their line, and it's been a key component to Jared Goff's career resurrection. So, Santa, whaddya say? Can you deliver five 300+ pounders down the chimney and into Halas Hall? Samir Patel : George sells the team! It's no surprise that the fish rots from the head, and the McCaskeys have represented a stinky fish since their takeover. George McCaskey seems like a nice guy, a real humanitarian who enjoys cozying up with the fanbase and saying all the right things. But, like Buster Bluth, he's not much of an intellect when it comes to the football side of his football team . The Washington Commanders are a great example of what happens when competent ownership ousts a league pariah. Josh Harris, who also owns the Philadelphia 76ers and New Jersey Devils, purchased the Commanders last season and wasted no time in supplementing his front office with viable football people to run his football team. Adam Peters was brought over from the San Francisco 49ers, and Dan Quinn was hired to oversee a rebuild in the nation's capital. The result? The Commanders are a surprising 10-5, their first 10-win season since 2012. Ownership isn't some boogeyman, but the Bears' brass does favor nepotism and cronyism over any semblance of a meritocracy. Kevin Warren continues to be a wild card in that regard, but until there's tangible evidence that things are going to be different, then the fanbase can only do what our own Samir did: write a letter to the North Pole and beg for a change. Q: "I wish Jeffrey Lurie owned the team and brought Howie Roseman with him." It really is sickening to watch another storied franchise continue to make all the right moves while simultaneously having a fanbase that pelts Santa with AA batteries. The Philadelphia Eagles have been a poster child for sustained success; after winning a Super Bowl with Nick Foles and Doug Pederson in 2017, Roseman moved on after a few rough seasons from each and reached another Super Bowl with Nick Sirianni and Jalen Hurts. The Eagles, like the Lions, continue to inject talent into each of their lines. Their offensive line hasn't skipped a beat since All-World center Jason Kelce retired with the Eagles drafting Cam Jurgens back in 2022 as the heir-apparent. Roseman has been with the Eagles since 2000 and has been their general manager since 2010. In those 24+ years with the organization, the Eagles have rarely had any depth issues with any of their lines. Whether it was players like Jason Peters and Jon Runyan, Lane Johnson and Brandon Brooks, or Jordan Mailata and Cam Jurgens, the Eagles have had a solid, talented front-five to block for their quarterbacks. It is a straightforward team-building strategy that the Bears can't grapple with. From Jerry Angelo to Ryan Poles, the Bears seem almost to hold their nose when it comes to drafting hog mollies, and it shouldn't be a surprise that it's cost the team when it comes to developing their past three quarterbacks. Ron Luce: " All I want for Christmas is for the Bears to go to another city so they can't torture me anymore..." Bears fans are a special breed of masochists; we tune in to watch this team disappoint us weekly, and we do so during the holiday season. That said, since Kevin Warren can't find a place to build the new stadium after two years of aimless meandering the greater Chicago area, Ron may actually get his wish. There's an air of quiet apathy from the Chicago faithful this year. Soldier Field was reverberating with Jared Goff chants this past Sunday, and a once passionate fanbase seems almost resigned to each year of continued disappointment. As for myself, if I could ask Santa for one thing for the Bears, it'd be world peace. Just kidding, screw that. Give me Ozzie Newsome to replace Kevin Warren as team president. Newsome is what everyone is hoping Kevin Warren can become: a football lifer with a multitude of contacts. However, where they're different is that Newsome has experience building a Super Bowl-winning roster (twice) and a keen business sense to keep the Ravens both cap-healthy and flush with draft capital. So, Santa, if you're listening and have some extra room in your sack, a few of us have just some minor requests for our beloved Bears. After all, it'll take a Christmas miracle to fix the cycle of depression that's plagued this organization since its Super Bowl win almost forty years ago. This article first appeared on On Tap Sports Net and was syndicated with permission.

The news that PV Sindhu, who has become India's strength on the badminton courts, is getting married had come out recently. The groom is Hyderabad native Venkata Datta Sai, a family friend and executive director of the leading software company Posidex Technologies. Now the engagement pictures of both are going viral on social media. In the picture, PV Sindhu and fiance Venkata Dutta Sai are seen exchanging their wedding rings next to a sign that says 'Miss to Mrs'. Sindhu herself shared the pictures on her official page. Kahlil Gibran's poem "When love beckons to you, follow him, for love gives naught but itself," is given as a caption to the photo. The wedding will take place on December 22 in Udaipur, Rajasthan. The ceremonies will begin on the 20th. The wedding reception will be held in Hyderabad on 24th. 29-year-old Sindhu had won silver at the 2016 Rio Olympics and bronze at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Sindhu, who has won several international medals, including one gold, two silvers and a bronze at the World Championships, has been out of form for some time. She has regained her form by winning the women's title at the Syed Modi tournament. Sindhu has decided to come back to the competition stage in January after her wedding. Sindhu is the daughter of former national volleyball player PV Ramana and P Vijaya.Chinese President Xi Jinping will preside over a day of celebrations in Macau and inaugurate the city's new leader on Friday to mark 25 years since the former colony was returned to China. Macau is regarded by China as a shining example of its "One Country, Two Systems" model, and Xi praised the city as a "pearl in the nation's palm" at the start of his three-day visit. The Chinese casino hub has grown from a Portuguese trading outpost to the world's casino capital by gaming revenue and a popular destination for Chinese tourists. When Macau reverted to Chinese rule on December 20, 1999, Beijing promised that the city's "capitalist system and way of life shall remain unchanged for 50 years". Arriving in the city on Wednesday, Xi lauded Macau's "world-recognised success" in implementing the "One Country, Two Systems" framework and said the city had a bright future. "Macau is a pearl in the nation's palm, and I have always kept in my thoughts its development and the welfare of all its people," Xi said. The Chinese president added that he would use his trip for "extensive and in-depth exchanges with our friends from all places, and discuss plans for Macau's development". Friday's festivities will be centred around the inauguration of Sam Hou-fai, the former president of Macau's apex court, as the city's fourth post-handover leader, replacing Ho Iat-seng. Security was tight around the city on Thursday, with roadblocks set up around an event venue and authorities increasing checks on inbound visitors. Following the end of 442 years of Portuguese rule, Macau's fortunes have risen in lockstep with China's economic growth. It is the only place in China where casino gambling is permitted and has long surpassed Las Vegas as the world's top casino hub, fuelled by two decades of Chinese visitor spending. Macau, which has a resident population of 687,000, saw just over 29 million visitor arrivals in the first 10 months of the year. Its GDP has soared from $6.4 billion in 1999 to more than $47 billion last year, and its population is the richest in China on a per capita basis. Under orders from Beijing to diversify the economy, Macau leaders have proposed fields such as financial services, technology and Chinese medicine as new economic drivers. But as of November, gaming-related taxes still made up 81 percent of government revenue and experts say Macau is years away from weaning itself off casino wealth. Xi on Thursday visited the Macau University of Science and Technology and was "briefed on the development of two state-level key laboratories" that involved Chinese medicine and planetary science, according to state news agency Xinhua. He also visited the Guangdong-Macao In-Depth Cooperation Zone on Hengqin Island, speaking to residents and people there in charge of planning, construction, management and services, Xinhua reported. Hengqin Island, a landmass adjacent to Macau and three times its size, was partly leased by Beijing to Macau to boost its land supply for non-gaming development. hol/oho/sco

Wednesday, December 25, 2024 Facebook Instagram Twitter WhatsApp Youtube Personal Finance Education Entertainment Jobs Alert Sports Hindi Technology Complaint Redressal. Fact-Checking Policy Correction policy Authors and Team DNPA Code of Ethics Onwership and Funding Cookie Policy Terms of Service Disclaimer Contact US About Us More Search Home Technology Jio Airtel Vi will have to launch cheap plans, TRAI has given... Technology Jio Airtel Vi will have to launch cheap plans, TRAI has given the decision By Shyamu Maurya December 25, 2024 0 20 Share Facebook Twitter Pinterest WhatsApp Telegram Jio Airtel Vi will have to launch cheap plans, TRAI has given the decision TRAI has taken a big decision in the interest of customers to get rid of expensive recharge plans. TRAI has ordered telecom companies like Jio, Airtel, Vodafone-Idea and BSNL to launch calling and messaging only plans without data. Along with this, it has also ordered to launch 10 rupees voucher. Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has given a big relief to mobile customers. Actually TRAI has introduced calling and messaging only recharge plan to stop the loot of expensive recharge plans. In such a situation, telecom companies like Jio, Airtel and Vodafone-Idea will have to introduce cheap calling messaging only recharge plan. This recharge plan will be for those smartphone users who want only messaging and calling plan without data. TRAI has allowed telecom operators to launch low cost recharge voucher plan. Its price can be at least 10 rupees. Recharge plans without data will be launched In fact, today many smartphone users use the internet through Wi-Fi. Also, many smartphone users in rural areas need only calling and messaging plans, but they are forced to recharge mobile data because big telecom operators like Jio, Airtel and BSNL do not offer plans without data. In such a situation, there was a long-standing demand from customers that telecom companies should launch calling and messaging only plans without data. TRAI changed the rules TRAI, justifying the demand of customers, has ordered telecom companies to introduce messaging and calling only plans. For this, TRAI has changed the tariff rules. In such a situation, it has become mandatory for all telecom operators to launch calling and messaging plans. Also, TRAI has increased the existing validity of 90 days of special recharge coupon to 365 days. Which users will get the benefit According to TRAI’s report, about 150 million subscribers in the country use feature phones, who do not need data. For such users, recharge plans without data should be introduced. There are about 150 million 2G users in the country. Also, there are many users who use dual SIM in the phone. Plans without data can prove to be beneficial for such users. 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ALLY PALLY has been left stunned after EastEnders icon Shaun Williamson belted out a 1980s hit on the stage. The actor - who played Barry - took to the stage to perform for the crowd. Advertisement 2 Shaun Williamson performed at Ally Pally Credit: Rex 2 He sang the 1980s tune '(Something Inside) So Strong' to the crowd Credit: x Williamson , 59, was filmed by audience members singing the 1987 Labi Siffre tune '(Something Inside) So Strong'. He was joined in his performance by the backing darts cheerleaders as they danced along. Follow all the action from the World Darts Championship as it happens with SunSport's LIVE blog As he finished, plenty of fans from the seats applauded his efforts. READ MORE ON DARTS BULLY BOY Freddie Flintoff hails his ‘finest sporting achievement’ while hosting Bullseye A video of the performance was shared on social media with many fans loving it. Advertisement One posted: "The moment of 2024. The man is an icon." A second wrote: "Cultural icon." A third commented: "Try telling me the darts is not the greatest show on earth!" Most read in Darts Gossip LOW BLOW Rangers 'open to transfer offers' for star once targeted by Manchester City SIMPLE DECISION Celtic-daft singer made Italian team change blue strips to green hoops Latest AIR DEATH HORROR Tragedy as pilot dies in horror plane crash near Scots airport Breaking HORROR ATTACK Teen, 16, rushed to hospital after being stabbed by gang in major Scots city A fourth said: "Incredible." Advertisement CASINO SPECIAL - BEST CASINO BONUSES FROM £10 DEPOSITS Another added: "Two of my all-time favourite things combined. "The darts worlds and Barry singing that song. I must be in heaven." EastEnders legend Shaun Williamson reveals very different career 19 years after leaving the soap EastEnders, BBC One World Darts Championship - top stories READ MORE on all the build-up to the Ally Pally extravaganza... All the info: All the action as it happens in our LIVE BLOG Everything you need to know about the Ally Pally extravaganza How much prize money can be won? What is the format for the tournament? Who are the Sky Sports presenters and pundits ? News, features and interviews: Mardle to take step back after tragic death of wife Donna Emma Paton reveals rise as Queen of Darts Littler loses record to breakthrough star Peter Wright 'lost it' in emotional moment with daughter MVG pays tribute to Wayne Mardle's wife Donna Watch Littler hit 180 as Bullseye makes return to TV Commentator stunned with player's bizarre routine Nick Kenny bursts into tears after beating Van Barneveld Littler storms into third round with impressive win Littler breaks down in parents arms after emotional win It comes 10 years on from Williamson's iconic performance of the same song at the World Indoor Bowls Championships in Great Yarmouth. Advertisement He sang to the bowls crowd before the tense final, which saw Scotland's Darren Burnett beat local ace Mervyn King. Williamson was killed off in EastEnders back in 2004 as his character Barry was pushed off a cliff. He recently admitted that quitting the iconic soap was his best decision . Meanwhile at the PDC World Championship has seen plenty more drama. Advertisement Read more on the Scottish Sun DECEMBRRR Scots blasted with snowfall days before Christmas as storms cause transport chaos FLOOR PHILLER Rangers boss Philippe Clement spotted dancing in popular Glasgow bar Tournament favourite Luke Littler broke down in tears after his second round win over Ryan Mielke . Gary Anderson suffered a shock exit to Jeffrey de Graaf and blamed his loss on cutting down TREES . List of all-time Darts World Champions BELOW is a list of Darts world champions by year. The list does not include winners from the pre-Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) era or BDO world champions. That means Raymond van Barneveld, for example, is only listed once - Barney also won four BDO titles - and none of Eric Bristow's five BDO titles are included. 1994 - Dennis Priestley 1995 - Phil Taylor 1996 - Phil Taylor (2) 1997 - Phil Taylor (3) 1998 - Phil Taylor (4) 1999 - Phil Taylor (5) 2000 - Phil Taylor (6) 2001 - Phil Taylor (7) 2002 - Phil Taylor (8) 2003 - John Part 2004 - Phil Taylor (9) 2005 - Phil Taylor (10) 2006 - Phil Taylor (11) 2007 - Raymond van Barneveld 2008 - John Part (2) 2009 - Phil Taylor (12) 2010 - Phil Taylor (13) 2011 - Adrian Lewis 2012 - Adrian Lewis (2) 2013 - Phil Taylor (14) 2014 - Michael van Gerwen 2015 - Gary Anderson 2016 - Gary Anderson (2) 2017 - Michael van Gerwen (2) 2018 - Rob Cross 2019 - Michael van Gerwen (3) 2020 - Peter Wright 2021 - Gerwyn Price 2022 - Peter Wright (2) 2023 - Michael Smith 2024 - Luke Humphries Most World Titles 14 - Phil Taylor 3 - Michael van Gerwen 2 - John Part, Adrian Lewis, Gary Anderson, Peter Wright 1 - Dennis Priestley, Raymond van Barneveld, Rob Cross, Gerwyn Price, Michael Smith, Luke Humphries

T'puram: A 17-year-old girl from Attipra has gone missing after she left for school from home on Thursday morning. Kazhakkoottam police intensified search for her after registering a case. CCTV footage shows that the girl, a Plus One student at Kumarapuram Govt Higher Secondary School, was seen boarding a bus to Kumarapuram from Attipra in the morning. However, it is yet to be known where she alighted as she was absent from classes. The girl's mother contacted the schoolteacher after she did not return home by evening. When the teacher informed her that the girl was absent from the class, the mother soon approached police with a complaint. Police began a probe after registering a missing case under Section 57 of the Kerala Police Act. "The tower location of the girl's mobile phone showed at Nedumangad. But we could not trace her so far. We have intensified the search in the locality, and alerts have been passed to all police, bus and railway stations. The photograph of the girl was shared on various social media groups to trace her," police said. The girl was wearing a uniform when she went missing, and there were reports that the girl was abducted by a 23-year-old youth. "He is also missing, and his mobile phone remains switched off. Classmates of the student informed that the girl was seen communicating with the youth near the school several times," police added. TNNPakistan will face India in a blockbuster clash in the group stage of next year's ICC Champions Trophy. ( More Cricket News ) The ODI tournament is returning to the schedule in 2025 after an eight-year absence, with Pakistan winning the last edition in 2017. Group A sees co-hosts Pakistan drawn against rivals India, as well as New Zealand and Bangladesh. England, Australia, South Africa and Afghanistan will compete in Group B. Pakistan will face India on February 23, with Dubai chosen as the neutral venue after India refused to travel to Pakistan due to ongoing political tensions between the two countries. Check out the full fixtures for the ICC Champions Trophy 2025. pic.twitter.com/oecuikydca This means India, who have not played in Pakistan since 2008, will play all three group matches in the United Arab Emirates, plus the first semi-final on March 9, should they advance. The final, which is set to take place in Lahore, would move to Dubai if India were to reach it. England, who have never won the event, will face Australia in their first match on February 22. The Champions Trophy will be the first global event Pakistan has hosted since 1996.

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In his first campaign ad this year, President Joe Biden asked a question over images of Martin Luther King Jr. and January 6 rioters: “What will we do to maintain our democracy? History’s watching.” For a few more weeks, Biden retains the responsibilities and powers of the nation’s highest office. If he believes his words, he must take urgent action to strengthen our democracy, even as he works to ensure a peaceful transfer of power. President-elect Donald Trump has made little secret of his desire for unchecked power, whether to be a dictator on day one, weaponize the Department of Justice against perceived enemies or strip broadcast licenses from disfavored media outlets. But this has yet to come to pass. America only has one president at a time. If Biden’s campaign ad was more than political bluster — and his lifetime of dedicated public service suggests it was heartfelt — he must now do everything he can to safeguard our fundamental rights. So what can he do? First, he can shore up protections for the dedicated career civil servants who keep us safe. Doctors, scientists and bank inspectors ensure the prescribed drugs are safe, our water is free of toxins, our jobs won’t cause us injury and our life’s savings won’t disappear when we make a deposit. Civil servants in agencies such as the FBI, CIA and Defense Department keep us safe from terrorists and foreign adversaries. With his billionaire Cabinet picks and quid-pro-quo style, Trump will replace servants of the people with those who serve him. He doesn’t want career civil servants to blow the whistle when his actions sacrifice Americans’ safety and well-being to benefit his wealthy friends. Solidifying job protections for civil servants gives them what authoritarians hate most: the ability to stand up, speak truth and ensure our laws are followed. Biden says he’s the most labor-friendly president in a generation. Now he must aggressively side with public workers in contract negotiations and offer whistleblower training to put our health and safety over the interests of billionaires. Second, Biden can recognize the Equal Rights Amendment to protect women. Many in Trump’s orbit are pushing him to use draconian measures to block Americans’ access to reproductive care. His nominee for defense secretary has said he believes women are less effective fighters and shouldn’t serve in ground combat units. Trump also could scale back efforts to combat sex discrimination in the workplace and health care. The ERA could offer vital constitutional protections. Virginia ratified it in 2020 and was the last state needed to bring it into force, but it has yet to be formally recognized as the 28th Amendment to the Constitution. This is the case even as the nation’s leading scholars and the American Bar Association argue it has already been adopted. Biden has the power to clarify this once and for all. Finally, Biden should do all he can to prepare our military, law enforcement and intelligence communities to uphold the rule of law and push back against attempts to weaponize them against law-abiding citizens. The Republican-led House of Representatives has passed two bills to safeguard journalists and stop the government from purchasing Americans’ private location, web history and search data without a warrant. Biden must press the Senate to take immediate action on these bills. Through training and guidance, he also can reiterate that presidential immunity does not shield military and law enforcement officers from the legal requirement to follow only lawful orders. Additionally, his administration can lay out constraints on the domestic deployment of federal forces, even if they are ultimately reversed. Biden’s term isn’t over, nor is his responsibility to the children and grandchildren watching him, waiting to see what kind of America they will inherit. Urgent actions are sitting on the most powerful desk in America. We must now ask the lifelong statesman and patriot who sits behind it: What will you do to protect our democracy? Olinsky is the senior vice president for structural reform and governance policy at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. He wrote this for InsideSources.com . Be the first to know Get local news delivered to your inbox!China's Xi to lead Macau handover anniversary celebrations

Over the past two days, President-elect Donald Trump has made clear that he has designs for American territorial expansion, declaring that the United States has both security concerns and commercial interests that can best be addressed by bringing the Panama Canal and Greenland under American control or outright ownership. Trump’s tone has had none of the trolling jocularity that surrounded his repeated suggestions in recent weeks that Canada should become America’s “51st state,” including his social media references to the country’s beleaguered prime minister as “Governor Justin Trudeau.” Instead, while naming a new ambassador to Denmark — which controls Greenland’s foreign and defense affairs — Trump made clear on Sunday that his first-term offer to buy the landmass could, in the coming term, become a deal the Danes cannot refuse. He appears to covet Greenland both for its strategic location at a time when the melting of Arctic ice is opening new commercial and naval competition and for its reserves of rare earth minerals needed for advanced technology. “For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World,” Trump wrote on social media, “the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity.” On Saturday evening, he had accused Panama of price-gouging American ships traversing the canal, and suggested that unless that changed, he would abandon the Jimmy Carter-era treaty that returned all control of the canal zone to Panama. “The fees being charged by Panama are ridiculous,” he wrote, just before an increase in the charges scheduled for Jan. 1. “This complete ‘rip-off’ of our country will immediately stop.” He went on to express worry that the canal could fall into the “wrong hands,” an apparent reference to China, the second-largest user of the canal. A Hong Kong-based firm controls two ports near the canal, but China has no control over the canal itself. Not surprisingly, the government of Greenland immediately rejected Trump’s demands, as it did in 2019, when he first floated the idea. “Greenland is ours,” Prime Minister Mute B. Egede said in a statement. “We are not for sale and will never be for sale. We must not lose our long struggle for freedom.” The Danish prime minister’s office was more circumspect, writing in a statement that the government was “looking forward to working with the new administration” and offering no further comment on Trump’s remarks. After Trump brought up the Panama Canal again in a speech on Sunday, Panama’s president, José Raúl Mulino, said in a video that “every square meter of the Panama Canal and its adjacent zones is part of Panama, and it will continue to be.” He added: “Our country’s sovereignty and independence are not negotiable.” But the president-elect’s statements — and the not-so-subtle threats behind them — were another reminder that his version of “America First” is not an isolationist creed. His aggressive interpretation of the phrase evokes the expansionism, or colonialism, of President Theodore Roosevelt, who cemented control of the Philippines after the Spanish-American War. And it reflects the instincts of a real estate developer who suddenly has the power of the world’s largest military to back up his negotiating strategy. Trump has often suggested that he does not always see the sovereignty of other nations’ borders as sacrosanct. When Russia invaded Ukraine, his first response was not a condemnation of the blatant land grab, but rather the observation that President Vladimir Putin’s move was an act of “genius.” Even now, as Trump seeks a deal to end the war in Ukraine, he has never said that the country’s borders must be restored, a key demand of the United States and NATO — he has only promised a “deal” to end the fighting. In the cases of Greenland and Panama, both commercial and national security interests are at play. Trump’s desire for Greenland was made explicit in the first term, when a wealthy New York friend of his, Ronald S. Lauder, the New York cosmetics heir, put the idea in his head. In the Trump White House in 2019, the National Security Council was suddenly delving into the details of how the United States would pull off a land acquisition of that size. Trump kept pressing the point with Denmark, which consistently rebuffed him. Trump was not the first president to make the case: Harry S. Truman wanted to buy Greenland after World War II, as part of a Cold War strategy for boxing out Soviet forces. Trump can make a parallel argument, especially as Russia, China and the United States jockey for control of Arctic routes for commercial shipping and naval assets. Arctic experts did not dismiss Trump’s Greenland bid as a joke. “Not that many people are laughing about it now,” said Marc Jacobsen, an associate professor at the Royal Danish Defense College in Denmark who focuses on Arctic security. Jacobsen noted that the reaction in Denmark to Trump’s latest bid had been one of fury (one Danish politician called it “an unusually strange way to be an ally”). But, he said, Greenlanders — who have long sought independence — may seek to use Trump’s interest as an opportunity to further strengthen economic ties with the United States. Since 2009, Greenland has had the right to declare its independence, but the vast territory of about 56,000 people is still heavily dependent on Denmark and has never chosen to pursue that path. Trump’s interest could give Greenland an opening for more U.S. investments, including in tourism or rare earth mining, he said. “Was it crazy when the U.S. acquired Alaska? Was it crazy when the U.S. built the Panama Canal?” asked Sherri Goodman, a former Pentagon official and a senior fellow with the Wilson Center Polar Institute, a Washington-based think tank. Goodman, whose book “Threat Multiplier: Climate, Military Leadership, and the Fight for Global Security” centers in part on the Arctic, said the United States did have a strong interest in ensuring that China in particular does not develop a strong presence in Greenland. China’s ambitions in the Arctic have grown, and in 2018 it laid out plans to build infrastructure and develop shipping lanes opened by climate change. Goodman said the United States should continue to prevent China from gaining a foothold in the doorstep to North America, but said Greenlanders must decide their own fate. “We want to have all those territories proximate to our own mainland territory to protect us and also to prevent an adversary from using it to our strategic disadvantage,” Goodman said. “On the other hand, there is international law and international order and sovereignty, and Greenland is still a part of Denmark.” When it comes to Panama, Trump may also hold a distant personal grudge. In 2018, Panamanian police officers ousted the Trump Organization from the Trump International Hotel in Panama City after a protracted legal battle between the president-elect’s family and the majority owner of the property. The Trump name subsequently came down. The company had held a contract to manage the property. David L. Goldwyn, who served at the State Department under Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, noted that Greenland has tremendous undeveloped natural resources, including more than 43 of the 50 so-called critical rare earth elements used to make electric vehicles, wind turbines and other clean technology. “Certainly if Greenland chose to develop these resources, it would provide a significant alternative to China, although it is China’s capacity to process those minerals which gives it its current advantage,” he said. But Goldwyn said that in addition to Denmark’s sovereignty, Trump might find that Greenland’s Indigenous communities do not want mining and resource extraction as much as he does. “It is highly unlikely resource extraction could be forced on an unwilling population,” he said. “A more fruitful path might be to collaborate with the Danish government and Greenland’s population on ways to safely and sustainably develop those resources.” This article originally appeared in The New York Times . © 2024 The New York Times Company

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