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Time of India
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
'Good For Nothing' teaser from 'Sitaare Zameen Par' promises riveting physical training sequences
1 2 The teaser of the first song ' Good For Nothing ' from the upcoming Aamir Khan-starrer ' Sitaare Zameen Par ' was unveiled on Wednesday. It offers a peek into the jolly, fun, and humorous journey of Coach Gulshan, played by Aamir and his talented team. The teaser shows Aamir's character training his team for basketball, promising a glimpse into the madness that's about to unfold when the full song releases on Thursday. Good for Nothing - Teaser | Sitaare Zameen Par | Aamir Khan | Shankar Mahadevan | Amitabh B | SEL The song features the vocals of Shankar Mahadevan and Amitabh Bhattacharya, with Neil Mukherjee on guitar and Sheldon D'Silva on bass. Aamir Khan's New Role in Sitaare Zameen Par 'Sitaare Zameen Par' is a spiritual sequel to the 2007 superhit 'Taare Zameen Par', which marked the directorial debut of Aamir. The trailer of the film has struck the right chord with viewers, who are eagerly anticipating more from this heartwarming family entertainer. The film also stars Genelia Deshmukh, Aroush Datta, Gopi Krishna Varma, Samvit Desai, Vedant Sharma, Ayush Bhansali, Ashish Pendse, Rishi Shahani, Rishabh Jain, Naman Mishra, and Simran Mangeshkar. Directed by R. S. Prasanna, who previously helmed the barrier-breaking blockbuster 'Shubh Mangal Saavdhan', now returns with the biggest collaboration with Aamir Khan Productions' 'Sitaare Zameen Par'. The lyrics are penned by Amitabh Bhattacharya and music is composed by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy. The screenplay is written By Divy Nidhi Sharma. The film is produced by Aamir Khan and Aparna Purohit, with Ravi Bhagchandka as the producer, under the banner of Aamir Khan Productions. Directed by R. S. Prasanna, 'Sitaare Zameen Par' is set to be released in theatres only on June 20, 2025. The film will later be released directly on YouTube under the 'Pay per view' model. Check out our list of the latest Hindi , English , Tamil , Telugu , Malayalam , and Kannada movies . Don't miss our picks for the best Hindi movies , best Tamil movies, and best Telugu films .
BBC News
01-05-2025
- Business
- BBC News
States approves idea of loan to buy Sark electricity firm
Sark's government could receive up to £1.5m in a loan from the States of Guernsey, politicians have Chief Pleas requested the money to purchase Sark Electricity Limited (SEL) and bring the island's only electricity supplier into public States voted for the plans by an overwhelming majority. Vice President of Policy and Resources Heidi Soulsby said: "We believed we had a moral obligation to support our sister island on such an important matter for them." Deputy Soulsby added: "It will be for Sark to agree the terms as set out."Chief Pleas previously wrote to Guernsey's Policy and Resources Committee requesting the loan to purchase States proposed conditions for the loan which included import duties on alcohol, fuel and tobacco being used as a security guarantee in the event of said: "We needed to ensure we did not put Guernsey taxpayers' money at risk and so the loan facility comes with conditions."These include Sark's participation in the Bailiwick Commission to look at our constitutional relationship and its commitment to a full review of its taxation system to ensure financial stability."An interim report is due to return to the States by the end of the year.
Indian Express
23-04-2025
- Indian Express
‘Derogatory' circular against judiciary: Bombay HC orders 1 week in jail for Navi Mumbai housing society functionary
The Bombay High Court Wednesday sentenced a member of the managing committee of a Navi Mumbai housing society to one-week simple imprisonment and fined her Rs 2,000 for criminal contempt of the court. However, on the request made by the woman's lawyer, the high court stayed operation of its order and suspended her sentence for 10 days to enable her to appeal against it. The court convicted Vineeta Srinandan, the cultural director of Seawoods Estates Limited (SEL), for using 'derogatory' language against the judiciary in a circular disobeying its order related to a dispute between the society and a resident over the feeding of stray dogs. SEL manages a residential complex consisting of more than 1,500 flats. Pronouncing the order, the court said it will not accept 'crocodile tears' by Srinandan along with 'routine sorry mantra' or 'apology' purportedly being tendered by the contemnor. The society was accused of not allowing one of its members to feed stray dogs and not permitting her maid to enter the society. On January 21, the high court passed an order on an interim application filed by one Leela Verma, who claimed that SEL and its managing committee members were restraining her domestic help from entering her house in the society or premise because she was feeding dogs, rendering her without any assistance in most difficult times and causing harassment. The high court then directed the housing society not to prevent domestic help from visiting her only because she was feeding dogs in the society's premises. It said that by doing so, the society was breaching her fundamental rights. Srinandan subsequently issued the circular/communication using 'derogatory' language against the judiciary. Srinandan and her authorised representative Alok Agarwal authored the circular. In February, the high court issued a show-cause notice as to why contempt action should not be taken against Srinandan. A bench of Justices Girish S Kulkarni and Advait M Sethna said contempt proceedings were required to be initiated for 'brazen and derogatory' comments against the judicial system in the circular, as the language in the communication 'lowers dignity of the court and also interferes in administration of justice'. The court then asked the managing committee of the society/board of directors (BoD) of the firm managing the society to pass a resolution expressing regret and remorse for the action by Srinandan along with 'impunity and tenor' in her writings. The high court on Wednesday held that her communication showed 'clear disregard' to its January 21 order and a remark such as calling the court 'dog mafia' was not expected from an educated person. 'In our clear opinion, the contemnor has taken all the opportunities even to justify on merits the circumstances under which, she has issued such objectionable writing and at the same time, has recited the apology mantra. We do not accept any apology, which does not show any contrition or any genuine remorse. Such apology in our opinion, is merely a weapon in defence with an impression that the contemnor can get away by such recitals,' the bench noted in the order. It added, 'Thus, such conduct of the contemnor cannot escape punishment, being a consequence of her severe contumacious acts of making scurrilous and scandalizing remarks against the Courts and the Judges. We are of the clear opinion that the contemnor is guilty of having committed criminal contempt of Court and accordingly, deserves maximum punishment to be awarded. The iron hands of law apply equally irrespective of the category of the contemnors. However, in the facts and circumstances of the case, we intend to impose a lesser punishment.'
Yahoo
18-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
With an ally in the White House, Moms for Liberty renews its fight against a longtime target
In a small recording studio near Nashville, Tennessee, conservative activist Kelly Schenkoske urged an online audience of parents to scour school district websites for contracts that mention social and emotional learning. "Social-emotional learning is far more than just kindness," Schenkoske said. "It is a bait and switch." The bait, according to Schenkoske and other panelists at the recent Moms for Liberty training event, is small shifts in the school day to introduce students to lessons about virtuous qualities like empathy and compassion. The switch, they said, is to make children sympathetic to what they see as progressive ideas, ranging from open borders and acceptance of homosexuality to gun control, action against climate change, and redistribution of wealth. "You send your child with your value system, your own beliefs, and now they're getting the government's value system installed into them," warned Schenkoske, who hosts a podcast from her California home about education and parent rights. The two-hour training session was the first installment in Moms for Liberty U, an online course meant to drive conservative parent activism in the group's continuing effort to sway local and national education agendas, Chalkbeat reports. That it focused on social and emotional learning illustrates the staying power of conservatives' concerns about schools' role in addressing student well-being. These concerns stretch back years, even as research on SEL shows wide-ranging benefits for students. Now Moms for Liberty has an ally in the White House, with President Donald Trump painting schools as centers of radical indoctrination and signing executive orders that seek to stamp out teaching about systemic racism and policies supportive of transgender youth. The group's future trainings will cover critical race theory, restorative justice, sex education, library content, Marxism, and more — topics that are under scrutiny by the new administration and more prominent in public conversation. Tiffany Justice, a Florida mom, activist, and former school board member who co-founded Moms for Liberty, sees SEL at the root of everything. She hopes the administration soon will call it out by name too. Parents who agree with the Trump administration can "take those executive orders, that messaging, and really make it come alive throughout the entire country," Justice told Chalkbeat. Social and emotional learning is an educational approach introduced in the 1960s to teach life skills designed to help children manage stress, treat others with respect and empathy, work cooperatively, and recognize and regulate their emotions. The use of SEL tools has increased as educators seek to help students rebound academically and emotionally from disruptions to schooling and children's daily lives after the COVID pandemic emerged in early 2020. About 83% of principals reported last year that their schools use an SEL curriculum or program, compared with 73% in the 2021-22 school year and 46% in 2017-18, based on a nationally representative survey by RAND Corp. and the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning, or CASEL. Educators say the pandemic deeply affected students' mental health, contributing to higher rates of depression and anxiety. And national studies highlight an urgent need to provide kids with tailor-made interventions. An infusion of federal aid for education during the pandemic helped to fuel the growth in SEL adoption. The programs vary in quality. But a large analysis of studies on SEL published in 2023 found a wide range of positive effects, including better academic performance, homework completion, and attendance, a major area of concern nationwide since the pandemic. Though teachers sometimes complain that SEL is one more thing piled on their very full plates and could distract from pure academics, the analysis also found that programs led by teachers had more positive effects than those led by counselors or outsiders. "It's frustrating to see the science and impacts in schools and then to see the noise around the banning of SEL," said Christina Cipriano, an associate professor at Yale University and lead author of the meta-analysis, which synthesized more than 400 studies over 13 years that collectively included half a million children. Cipriano recalled a trip to Washington, D.C., to talk with policymakers about using science to make decisions, including about social and emotional learning. One Republican congressional staffer told her that their constituents would love everything about her work — except the name. "You have a Control-F problem," the staffer said, referring to the computer keyboard command that lets someone easily find a term in documents such as school district contracts to purchase SEL products and services. Polls back that up. Large numbers of parents support the idea that schools should teach interpersonal skills and self-regulation, but far fewer react positively to the term "social and emotional learning." Justice, now a visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank with close ties to the Trump administration, described social and emotional learning as a "Trojan horse" that opens students to ways of thinking that run counter to what parents teach at home. For example, an emphasis on kindness might lead a student to feel pressure to use a transgender classmate's preferred pronouns, she said, when that makes the first student uncomfortable and runs counter to their parents' values. That's why Moms for Liberty U started its parent training series with a focus on social and emotional learning. "We had to start here, because this is what opens the child up to the indoctrination," Justice said. "It's the programming mechanism that allows for gender ideology to come in, for critical race theory to come in." The training session, which was taped early this year, describes SEL as being tucked into dozens of programs and tools in common use in schools, from teacher-parent messaging platforms to programs designed to make recess a more positive experience. Panelists named surveys on youth well-being as another example of SEL. Alex Neuman, a conservative author who appeared on the inaugural training panel, said the ultimate goal of SEL is "de-Christianizing education," something he traces back to Horace Mann, the 19th century social reformer considered one of the fathers of public education. Panelist Jennifer Kom, a psychology professor at Bethany Lutheran College in Minnesota, said SEL forces teachers to be therapists and leads children to disclose personal matters that can lead to bullying. Their arguments were enough to convince Tennessee mom Genevieve Pahos to take her activism a step further. Pahos was part of a small live audience at the taping. A Moms for Liberty chapter leader in Williamson County, south of Nashville, she already had heard many of the arguments against SEL, but she said the session inspired her to start filing more public records requests about SEL programs in her local districts. "I learned a lot from some of the speakers," she said, "about how to find out what's really happening in our schools." Speaking to Chalkbeat after the training session, Justice said schools should stick to academics. "Kids are sad sometimes; it's OK to be sad sometimes," she said. "But we need to help children be resilient and find their way through (sadness) by finding interest in life and success in school and giving them the confidence that they get from mastery of skills in the classroom." Put another way: "It ends up having kids marinating in their feelings all day. It's very hard to focus on learning math if we're all talking about, you know, Johnny's dog that died." Even supporters of social and emotional learning are sometimes fuzzy on what SEL is and isn't, Cipriano said, which can make it hard to have productive conversations across different viewpoints. SEL is not therapy or a mental health intervention, she said. But done well, it might mean fewer children need mental health support down the road, just as teaching reading properly to all students might mean fewer students need special education services. Building resilience — so that students can focus on academics even when bad things are happening around them — is one goal of SEL. School leaders should think about what problems they want to solve and how they'll support teachers, Cipriano said, not just adopt a social and emotional learning curriculum because it seems like the thing to do. She's working on a public database that she hopes will help school communities make better decisions about which curriculum or products to invest in. Users will be able to see what outcomes were generated by certain programs and the types of communities where these programs have been tried. She sees lots of room for improvement — better teacher training, more rigorous reviews of existing curriculum, and better communication with parents. "It seems to me that we have a real opportunity to engage families at the outset of implementation so they're aware of what's happening in the schools," she said. "When you talk to parents and families about the strategies involved in social and emotional learning, you'd be hard pressed to find someone who doesn't want their child to be a good friend or have less test anxiety." This story was produced by Chalkbeat and reviewed and distributed by Stacker.
Yahoo
26-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Strikes at HKFoods, Atria, meat plants postponed in Finland
Strikes scheduled across 13 meat and ready meals sites in Finland have been postponed for two weeks. Earlier this month, the Finnish Food Workers' Union (SEL) announced a two-day planned walkout across sites owned by local manufacturers HKFoods, Saarioinen, Pouttu, Snellman Group, Atria and Apetit Food starting today (25 March). In a statement, the SEL, which represents workers, said Finland's Minister of Labour Arto Satonen had postponed the strike to 8 April, as "given its nature and scope, [it] would target vital functions of society and would significantly harm the public interest". The strike action will now begin at midnight on 8 April, lasting until around the same time on 10 April. Nearly 4,000 employees across the 13 facilities are expected to down their tools over poor pay and unreasonable working hours. Affected locations include three of HKFoods' meats and ready meals sites, four of Saarioinen's factories and a dispatch centre, Pouttu's factory in Kannus and Apetit's frozen foods plant in Säkylä. Convenience foods and cold cuts processor Atria will also see strikes at facilities in Forssa and Nurmo, though the poultry factory is unaffected, SEL said. Snellmann's site in Kerava, which produces ready meals under the Kokkikartano brand will also see strikes, though the group told Just Food it did not expect the impact would be "too big". It declined to confirm how many workers would be walking out. Apetit also declined to share a statement, while the other manufacturers did not respond to Just Food's requests for comment. The SEL said the strike looked to speed up the development of new collective agreements for food industry workers in Finland. The union is also working on developing collective agreements for the dairy, bakery and drinks sectors. Collective agreements for food and drinks industry workers expired at the end of January. The SEL and Finnish Food Industries Federation (ETL), which represents employers, have not yet reached an agreement. Walkouts started on Sunday at breweries run by Royal-Unibrew owned Hartwall, Carlsberg and Olvi and are expected to continue until 28 March. Affected sites include the Lahti brewery run by Hartwall, Carlsberg's Sinebrychoff site in Kerava and Olvi's brewery in the North Savonian town of Iisalmi. Hartwall's warehouse in Tattariharju, Helsinki, and Sinebrychoff's equipment business Sinebrychoff Supply Company are also seeing strikes. ETL confirmed to Just Drinks that negotiations had been set for tomorrow. Strikes took place at Fazer and Lantmännen bakeries a couple of weeks ago. These are set to continue across 150 bakeries between 31 March and 3 April, according to SEL. "Strikes at HKFoods, Atria, meat plants postponed in Finland" was originally created and published by Just Food, a GlobalData owned brand. The information on this site has been included in good faith for general informational purposes only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely, and we give no representation, warranty or guarantee, whether express or implied as to its accuracy or completeness. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site.
