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Al Jazeera
a day ago
- Politics
- Al Jazeera
What are the risks from Israel and Iran's nuclear capabilities?
Israel says that ending Iran's nuclear programme is a key aim of its attacks on the country. Israel is widely believed to have nuclear arms, but has never admitted that. So, what are the nuclear capabilities of both sides, and what are the risks from this conflict? Presenter: Laura Kyle Guests: Dan Smith – Director at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Sahil Shah – Nuclear weapons policy analyst in London Rebecca Johnson – Director at the Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy and former senior adviser to Dr Hans Blix, who was formerly the top UN weapons inspector in Iraq and an IAEA chief
Business Standard
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Business Standard
Driven by Purpose, Guided by Love: SBI Life's #PapaHaiNa Film Captures Father's Heartfelt Journey of Keeping Promises
PRNewswire Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], June 16: Fathers often stand as the silent anchors of the family--offering strength, stability, and unwavering commitment. They seamlessly balance personal and professional responsibilities, quietly prioritising their family's well-being and future. This Father's Day, SBI Life Insurance presents 'Papa Bhooltey Nahin' under its #PapaHainNa digital property -- a heartfelt DVC that reflects the quiet strength and lasting promises of fatherhood. Inspired by everyday moments of affection, discipline, and resilience, the film is a heartfelt tribute to fathers who, despite the many roles they play, never forget the promises made to their loved ones. The narrative opens in the professional worlds of three fathers -- a hockey coach, a forest officer, and an architect -- each confidently leading in their domain. Whether instructing a striker, briefing rangers, or supervising a road site, their hands take centre stage, symbolising direction, discipline, and determination. In a seamless match cut, the same hands shift from leading at work to caring at home -- cradling a baby, waving a toy wand, admiring a tower of building blocks. The contrast is subtle yet powerful: fathers who command with authority also nurture with love. The transitions capture how effortlessly they move between roles, driven by unwavering commitment. The film closes with a vibrant mosaic of fathers -- doctors, farmers, firefighters, teachers -- shown not just in their professions, but in their most meaningful role: being a father. The message is clear -- "Jo apne iraade aur apno se kiye vaade kabhi bhooltey nahin... woh Papa hain na." Click on the link to view the digital film: Speaking on the launch of the digital video, Mr. Ravindra Sharma, Chief of Brand, Corporate Communication and CSR, SBI Life Insurance , said, "Fathers are often the quiet constants in our lives -- steady, selfless, and deeply committed. They may not always express their emotions aloud, but they never forget the promises made to their loved ones. 'Papa Bhooltey Nahin', our latest digital film under SBI Life's #PapaHainNa digital property, is a tribute to this silent formidable strength --the fathers who live their lives balancing responsibilities and relationships with unwavering dedication. At SBI Life, we believe in the power of purposeful living -- of doing not just for oneself, but for those who matter most. Through this DVC, we salute fathers who embody our brand philosophy of 'Apne Liye, Apno Ke Liye' -- living every moment with intent, love, and lasting commitment." "At Dentsu Creative Isobar, we're honoured to partner with SBI Life once again to add deeper meaning to the essence of 'Papa Hain Na' with our inspiring Father's Day campaign, 'Papa Bhooltey Nahin'," says Sahil Shah, President, Dentsu Creative Isobar . "Through this film, we capture how purpose and presence beautifully align, as fathers build the nation while staying deeply rooted in the promises made to their loved ones." SBI Life once again sparks conversation around the everyday strength of fatherhood -- not as a grand gesture, but as a lifelong commitment. Aligned with its brand philosophy, the campaign reinforces that real protection comes from showing up -- consistently, quietly, and wholeheartedly. Rolled out across digital and social platforms, the digital video evokes the emotional security and gratitude fathers bring into our lives. About SBI Life Insurance: SBI Life Insurance ('SBI Life' / 'The Company'), one of the most trusted life insurance companies in India, was incorporated in October 2000 and is registered with the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) in March 2001. Serving millions of families across India, SBI Life's diverse range of products caters to individuals as well as group customers through Protection, Pension, Savings and Health solutions. Driven by 'Customer-First' approach, SBI Life places great emphasis on maintaining world class operating efficiency and providing hassle-free claim settlement experience to its customers by following high ethical standards of service. Additionally, SBI Life is committed to enhance digital experiences for its customers, distributors and employees alike. SBI Life strives to make insurance accessible to all, with its extensive presence across the country through its 1,110 offices, 26,355 employees, a large and productive network of about 240,304 agents, 60 corporate agents and 13 bancassurance partners with more than 41,000 partner branches, 141 brokers and other insurance marketing firms. In addition to doing what's right for the customers, the company is also committed to provide a healthy and flexible work environment for its employees to excel personally and professionally. SBI Life strongly encourages a culture of giving back to the society and has made substantial contribution in the areas of child education, healthcare, disaster relief and environmental upgrade. In 2024-25, the Company touched over 50,000 direct beneficiaries through various CSR interventions. Listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange ('BSE') and the National Stock Exchange ('NSE'), the company has an authorized capital of Rs. 20.0 billion and a paid-up capital of Rs. 10.0 billion. The AuM is Rs.4,480.4 billion. For more information, please visit our website- and connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, and LinkedIn. (Numbers & data mentioned above are for the year ended March 31, 2025) Video: Photo:
Time of India
03-06-2025
- General
- Time of India
Police nab four men for selling IPL tickets illegally
Ahmedabad: City police on Tuesday arrested four men in two separate cases allegedly for selling IPL 2025 final match tickets illegally. The arrests were made by the crime branch and Gujarat University (GU) police during routine patrols. In the first incident, crime branch constable Vishwaraj Singh reported that around 10.50pm on Tuesday, police received information about a man selling IPL final tickets at inflated prices near Gate No. 1 of Narendra Modi Stadium in Motera. Acting on the tip-off, police detained a suspect matching the description — a man wearing a muddy-coloured T-shirt and grey pants. The individual was identified as Shubhankar Nilesh Shilkar, 22, a resident of Usgao village in Ponda, Goa. Upon searching him, police recovered three tickets for the match, each with a printed price of Rs 1,500. "Shilkar admitted that he purchased the tickets online and was attempting to sell them for Rs 5,000 each. A case of illegal selling of tickets was registered against him, and the tickets were seized. In the second case, Gujarat University police received a tip-off around 9pm on Tuesday about three youths selling match tickets illegally near the LD Engineering BRTS bus stop. Cops reached the spot and detained three individuals: Adityasinh Chauhan (19), Tushar Chauhan (18), and Sahil Shah (19), all students residing in different areas of the city. A search of the suspects revealed that Sahil Shah was carrying six IPL final tickets, each priced at Rs 1,500. According to cops, the group admitted that they booked the tickets online and intended to sell them for Rs 5,000 each, sharing any profit equally. Like in the earlier case, they were unable to provide any legal authorisation for resale. Gujarat University police registered an FIR under the same charges and seized the tickets.
Al Jazeera
01-06-2025
- Business
- Al Jazeera
Does damning IAEA report mark end of an Iran nuclear deal?
The United Nations nuclear watchdog has delivered its most damning allegations against Iran in nearly two decades. It comes as the United States proposes a nuclear deal that it says is in Tehran's best interests to accept. But Tehran is accusing the West of political pressure and warns it will take 'appropriate countermeasures' if European powers reimpose sanctions. So is there still room for a deal? Or will the US, United Kingdom, France and Germany declare Iran in violation of its nonproliferation obligations? Presenter: James Bays Guests: Hassan Ahmadian – assistant professor at the University of Tehran Ali Vaez – Iran project director at the International Crisis Group Sahil Shah – independent security analyst specialising in nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation policy
Hindustan Times
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Hindustan Times
'Someone sent Kunal Kamra ₹10K on YouTube': Sahil Shah on many ways fans can support comedians in ‘uncertain times'
Comedian Sahil Shah, who is known for immaculate grip on observational comedy, is back with one of his most introspective stand up yet, Broken. The 34-year-old comedian, who has performed over 1500 shows across New York, London, Toronto, Nairobi, Singapore, and Dubai sat with Hindustan Times talking about his transition as an artist and importance of mental health. He also touched upon the recent controversy surrounding Kunal Kamra who allegedly took a dig at Maharashtra Deputy CM Eknath Shinde calling him a 'traitor' leading to vandalism of his stand up venue Habitat studio. Sahil also gave his two cents about comedian Samay Raina's India Got Latent controversy where podcaster Ranveer Allahbadia's joke on parents landed him in big trouble. Sahil stressed how audience can help during uncertain times in Indian comedy scene. Excerpts from the interview: It is a comedy show about me being broken and all the steps that I am taking to fix myself. It is a deeply personal show and I have been working on it for five years. My first special was Childish Behavior, so Broken was an antithesis to that, saying that look, I am not childish anymore. As Covid happened and my mental health went up and down, I started getting existential, which eventually formed the show. A big chunk of the show is also about my dog and cat. Comedy is the greatest form of catharsis. If a comedian has a break up, there are two thoughts. First thought is, 'Oh my god, I am heartbroken' the second thought is 'Waah, kya joke milega isme' (Wow, what an amazing joke will come out of this). So as I was feeling all these emotions in the lockdown, I started to write them down and the more I wrote about it, I thought it would be fun to speak about mental health, the sadness I am feeling. So let me give you a great example. I was talking to my therapist saying I don't think I have achieved enough in my life and my therapist said, hey look at Vincent Van Gogh, he became famous after he died. And I told her that is the worst advice you have given me, stating the obvious irony of the situation. Even she realised after some time and said, almost panicking, 'No no. I am not saying you have to die to become famous'. The moment she said that, I wrote it down that this is such a funny joke that my therapist also thinks that maybe you will be famous after you go! So when something like this happens to me, I do think about what has happened to me and the next thing is, I can turn it into a joke. A post shared by Sahil Shah (@sahilbulla) So let us just put it this way, comedy works on a very simple thing called context. If you were watching a comedy show live, you would understand that when I am performing and I am cracking my jokes, they are not coming from a place of malice, there is no hidden agenda, nobody has paid me money to say what I want to. My jokes are coming from a place where I want to express my emotions. Now, for example, tomorrow, I am doing a joke on a therapist, hypothetically, and a bunch of therapists get angry, at that point I will be like why are you getting angry? I am not trying to threaten you. It is not what I meant. I was talking about my journey and my thoughts. As an artist I believe that all of us are allowed thoughts, opinions and if you disagree with my thought and opinion, you are allowed to disagree. But if that turns into you getting aggressive or violent then that is where it gets problematic because we aren't threatening anyone, we are cracking jokes, it is not hate speech. But what can people take offence to, we don't know. In fact, it is a scary time as an artist where, tomorrow for example, if you are writing this column but you were scared or afraid that you want to say things but you think may be I can't or maybe I shouldn't. A post shared by Sahil Shah (@sahilbulla) I don't know Ranveer personally but with Kunal and Samay, I have messaged them and I have spoken to them. And look, I can't do anything except be there for my fellow comics. I sent a message asking 'all good', 'hope all good', that's it. I don't expect the audience to do anything. If someone comes to vandalise the property, the audience will run. No one is going to stand up. I agree, I accept. I am saying, online, support the person, that is it. Tomorrow, I have given you a joke on dogs and PETA gets angry at me, I want people to be there and say no Sahil was joking. He has a dog, he is talking from experience, I don't think he means hatred, we support him. People don't understand this but everyone gets affected by it. It is not only about Kunal Kamra but also Habitat got shut down, the livelihood of the people working there, what did they do? Nothing. Their livelihoods are getting affected. We don't have a venue anymore to perform. A post shared by Sahil Shah (@sahilbulla) I'll be honest, no controversy is bad controversy. People feel that silence is a very good tool but silence can work another way. On one hand, if you are telling someone that hey, now we will never let you perform, when the person goes and performs in a foreign country they are going to be sold out. The more you try to stop people from doing something, the more the people would want to do it. It is as simple as that. Look at Kamra's YouTube channel, see the amount of super thanks he has got. I had seen recently someone has sent ₹10,000 to him saying 'bro keep up the good fight'. So this is what I mean by support. You are financially supporting someone who could have lost their opportunity. You are monetarily supporting someone by buying tickets when they do start touring. You emotionally support someone by sending them a message when they are down. We are nothing without our audience. We are just people who talk. If tomorrow my audience stops coming for my shows, it doesn't matter what I do, my support has gone forever. This was unpredictable. I don't think that venue thought it would be broken. We are living in uncertain times. You don't know who would react to what and for valid legitimate reasons as well. What Kamra said, must have hurt someone, and they have reacted because of that, maybe how they reacted for them seem valid but for us it is not valid. There are two sides of the coin. So as an audience, I am saying things will start again. Shows are still going on. The Habitat will be back again. When it does, come watch shows, support the artist. It totally depends on what you stand for. Kamra is super fearless, he is doubling down. His Tamil Nadu thing is the funniest thing I have ever heard. (In a viral audio clip, Kunal Kamra was allegedly threatened by a person, who was asking his address but the comedian told him that he is in Tamil Nadu). I am also fearless in the topics that I am tackling. As a comedian you get to decide what topics you want to tackle. Fear comes from 'I don't think I can talk about this'. I want to talk about death, that is more important to me. When I talk about support, I would also like to mention that if someone does get cancelled or someone does get threatened, as Ranveer had said that his family was getting threats, you would have to understand that these people's mental health also would be at an all-time low. A simple message, I love what you do, I will always be there for you, goes 10 times more than buying a ticket, although buying a ticket does help. Even in my show, there is a very important part where I talk about how important this equation between comedian and audience is. I think what we fail to realise is that after every comedy show there's always someone who is like, 'Oh my god, I am seeing you for the first time'. We fail to realise that not only are there new comedy audiences coming but there are old audiences too. I have met parents who said, 'Listen I was in college when you used to perform. Now this is my child and I am like 'Oh my god', that is when you realise, your audience is also growing old with you. My duty now is for my audience who have grown old with me to have pride and say, 'hey when I was 19 and he was 19, that was fun but now as we aged, it still feels the same. I have grown, he has grown, I enjoy it'. I put my everything in this show. There is a new show I am working on and the theme of it is in continuation, saying how I am average in everything and how I realised I don't want to be great. I am happy being average. There is too much pressure being the best, so that's the entire next angle in my life. I want to put my baby (new show) into the world, I want it to walk and while it is growing I want to enjoy life a little with my dog and cat. In improv comedy there is this basic fundamental rule called, 'Yes, and?' I have learnt to 'Yes, and?' my life. If anything happens I have learnt to be like, 'Yes, and now what?' Covid happened, I started doing digital shows, streaming. Live shows are happening, I am adapting. YouTube is happening, I am adapting. Reels are happening, I have adapted. It is very important to keep adapting and growing. So that's the advice I would give, if anything happens, accept it, say 'yes, and now what' and look forward to the next chapter. Sahil Shah's Broken is available to watch on YouTube.
