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Time of India
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
RJ Mahvash says 'stealing someone's husband' is CHEATING; reacts to online trolls amidst Yuzvendra Chahal engagement buzz
RJ 's rumoured romance with cricketer Yuzvendra Chahal is back in the headlines after her comment on love and relationships went viral. The RJ, who has found herself linked to the cricketer since his divorce from his wife, Dhanashree Verma, took on a question about 'cheating' head on. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Mahvash, has become a target of social media trolling, with some even accusing her of being responsible for the breakdown of Chahal's marriage. In response to growing public speculation and criticism, Mahvash took to social media handle to post a video discussing what amounts to cheating in relationships. Posting a video listing down all the forms of cheating, she wrote, "Relationship me rehke ye sb krna . Cheating. Aise log khud hi apna karma hote hain bro chorh de usko khud hi depressed marenge aise log." Reaching out to those who have been cheated on, she said, "Be sorry for that person that he did not realise that 'love' doesn't happen everyday. It's rare. And it is the point of existence in this world. To spread love. They will eventually cheat on the next one too. And then next one. And then one more." Asking fans to heed warning signs, she went on to describe her own experience of forgiving past lovers saying, "Main apni last relationship me 3 bar maaf krke dekh chuki hu. Don't let anyone disrespect you TWICE. Bohot mil jaenge tmhe unse behtar. Relax! Taras khao unpr wo beemar hain. PAR TUM NAHI HO. Life is too short with the right one and too long with the wrong one!" Stealing = Cheating The post, had some interpreting it as a veiled response to Dhanashree's post on 'stealing her husband.' Taking to the comments, one posted a comment that read, "Kisika pati churana??????? Cheating." Reacting to the post, Mahvash said, "Maine churaya nahi islye I wouldn't know but yes kisika pati churana CHEATING." On 'The Good Girls Show' Previously, during an appearance on The Good Girls Show, Mahvash reflected on the deep emotional impact breakups can have on individuals, particularly in terms of self-worth. 'Breakups can leave permanent emotional scars. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now You're left wondering if you weren't good enough,' she shared. She also spoke candidly about her views on ideal relationships, saying, "Looks don't matter—I can teach romance, make someone filmy, even help him become rich. But if he doesn't have a sense of humour, that's where I draw the line." Engagement Buzz Rumours of an engagement began doing the rounds last week when Cricketer teased Yuzvendra and said he "got engaged". While talking about his YouTube channel, Rishabh was seen putting a ring on Chahal's finger, leading Archana to joke, "Are you now engaged to him?" Rishabh responded, "Iski toh ho chuki hai pehle... The engagement is now over."
New York Post
3 days ago
- Politics
- New York Post
Schools must make classrooms sane again — and ditch ‘restorative justice'
For nearly a decade, New York City placed ideology over evidence in its approach to school discipline. Restorative Justice, imposed for the sake of racial 'equity,' was supposed to strengthen school culture — but instead it removed the boundaries kids need to learn and thrive. That left too many classrooms without clear expectations, consistent follow-through or real consequences, with students told to discuss or meditate on unruly school behavior rather than receiving detention, suspension or loss of privileges. Advertisement My recent Manhattan Institute report shows how NYC spent nearly $100 million on RJ programs in less than a decade — yet classroom disruptions, police interventions and absenteeism only worsened. Eliminating meaningful consequences set school administrators and teachers adrift, forced to react to emergencies instead of preventing them. Structure in a classroom means clear routines, like when to listen or when it's time to work — with posted rules explaining what students should do and what happens when rules are broken, enforced by consistent adult follow-through. Advertisement Clarity and consistency, not abstract ideals, create safe and orderly classrooms. Extensive research confirms this commonsense concept. But with RJ, teachers must manage disruptions through scripted conversations, asking students to reflect on their feelings rather than issuing consequences. They've had to 'build relationships,' not set rules and enforce expectations — so expectations disappeared from our schools. Schools can't function without structure. Every student deserves a safe, orderly classroom, and teachers need tools to achieve this. Advertisement But RJ didn't supplement school discipline; it replaced it, leaving schools without tools to manage behavior. And the students who need structure most are the ones most harmed. Every morning, the NY POSTcast offers a deep dive into the headlines with the Post's signature mix of politics, business, pop culture, true crime and everything in between. Subscribe here! As the city approaches another mayoral election, voters should be asking: Who's willing to rebuild our schools' structure? Advertisement Who's willing to say that kids need boundaries, not just conversations? Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has endorsed more of the same. 'As mayor,' he told Chalkbeat, 'I will focus on . . . restorative-justice models, which allow our students to remain in schools, learn from mistakes, grow conflict resolution skills and improve academic outcomes.' As the largest school system in the country, NYC sets a tone for the rest of the nation. Today that tone is one of failure and discouragement. Restorative justice has done enough damage. It's time for our schools to reestablish rules, order and accountability. First, we must set clear expectations and consequences across all schools, empowering principals and teachers to intervene when students jeopardize learning or safety — without waiting for central office approval. Teachers need that backup if we want them to give our kids consistency. Teachers also need training in evidence-based behavioral strategies, such as encouraging appropriate behavior, de-escalating disruptions and following through with reliable consequences. Let's redirect funding away from RJ to give teachers those tools. Advertisement Get opinions and commentary from our columnists Subscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter! Thanks for signing up! Enter your email address Please provide a valid email address. By clicking above you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Never miss a story. Check out more newsletters To restore public trust, we need regular audits using measurable outcomes — reductions in repeat offenses, fewer emergency calls and increases in uninterrupted instructional time, for example — and to make the results public. Within the city's classrooms, daily structure is a must. Students can't learn in chaotic environments. Classrooms need clear routines, posted behavior expectations and consistent follow-through when rules are broken. Advertisement Finally, we must recognize that Title 1 schools, which serve the city's neediest and most vulnerable children, have been hit hardest by the breakdown of discipline. They should be first in line for training and resources to restore order and protect student learning. The collapse of order in our schools is a nationwide issue, as President Donald Trump recognizes: His April executive order directed the federal Education Department to promote behavior-based discipline measures. The order instructs federal agencies to roll back past guidance discouraging suspensions and reprimands over racial-equity concerns — guidance that spurred the rise of RJ in the city and elsewhere. Advertisement As Trump's order makes clear, imposing consequences isn't about punishment. It's about creating predictable environments in which students understand expectations and know adults will follow through. It's about striking a balance between compassion and clarity, and recognizing that boundaries are a form of care. New Yorkers should make school discipline a priority as they consider their vote for mayor. Advertisement Until the city rebuilds a system where all students can learn in calm, focused classrooms, children who need the most support will continue to receive the least. Restoring disciplinary structure gives every student a better chance to succeed — and New York City should lead the way. Jennifer Weber is the cofounder and co-owner of KIT Educational Consulting.
Time of India
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
BTS mania sweets Rakshabandhan markets with RJ-themed rakhis: Desi ARMY celebrates with heart and humor
Even though BTS has never set foot in India, their presence is everywhere — from stationery and soft toys to keychains and now even festive items. As Rakshabandhan approaches, Indian BTS ARMYs have something to celebrate beyond just music: BTS-themed rakhis are now hitting local stores. A fan in Hyderabad spotted a store selling rakhis featuring RJ, the adorable alpaca character designed by Jin for the BT21 brand. These rakhis, reportedly priced between Rs 10 and Rs 15, are simple, affordable, and already stirring excitement online. Desi ARMY reacts Once the photo of the RJ-themed rakhi began circulating online, Indian fans couldn't hold back. Many shared their reactions on social media, with some saying they'd wear the rakhi as a bracelet rather than tying it on a sibling. One fan wrote, 'Mereko rakhi pehna do. I promise I'll protect you.' Another chimed in, 'I'm not even a Hindu, but WELL GIVE IT TO ME IMMA KEEP IT AS A GIFT.' Others joked about buying the rakhi 'in the name of their brother' just so they could keep it themselves. It's a small but joyful reminder of how BTS connects people across cultures and traditions, especially in a country where their music is already on repeat in millions of homes. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Top 15 Most Beautiful Women in the World Undo What's next For BTS? Fans aren't just celebrating the merchandise, there's bigger news. BTS recently returned as a full unit, dropping their live album Permission to Dance On Stage – Live on July 18. This will be marking their first major release after three years. With their military service now complete, the members — RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V, and Jungkook — are currently in the US working on a new album, expected to release between March and May 2026. Adding to the buzz, HYBE is set to launch HYBE India by this September or October. Although an India stop on their world tour hasn't been confirmed yet, fans are hopeful — and in the meantime, they have RJ rakhis to keep the spirit alive. Mohit Suri's Emotional Wrap on 'Saiyaara' Sets Hearts Ablaze
The Hindu
23-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Hindu
Radio Charminar completes a decade in Hyderabad
'Hello, Salaam, Namaste Hyderabad… This is RJ Asim aur aap sun rahe hain Hyderabad Express mere saath, main aapka dost. Baatein hogi kaheen saari, aur bahut saare gaane aap sunne ke liye.... (This is RJ Asim and you are listening to Hyderabad Express with me, your friend)'' That is how radio jockey Asim Abedi, who took over as RJ eight years ago greets his listeners from the recording studio at Radio Charminar — Dil Se Hyderabadi, a community radio station tucked away in the heart of the city. On the second floor of the Ahle Bait Institute in Yakutpura, this modest yet lively station was launched in October 2015 by Hasan Rehmatullah and his son Zain. Sharing space with the bustling campus of Ahle Bait School and Junior College, Radio Charminar will celebrate its 10th anniversary this October. Raising awareness Operating at 107.8 MHz, Radio Charminar broadcasts programmes that educate, inform, entertain and raise awareness — all within a seven-kilometre radius. 'Our focus is on topics like health, women's empowerment, and preserving Hyderabad's history and food culture,' says Shaik Irfan Ahmed, system administrator and scheduling head, who has been with the station since its inception. Over the years, the station has tackled everything from child marriage awareness to reviving fading folk traditions. One of their standout shows, Dholak ke Geet, spotlighted wedding folk songs and found a wider audience on their YouTube channel. The platform gives voice to diverse local communities. Whether it is live sessions in community halls or expert-led studio recordings, the goal is to 'discuss and disseminate,' says RJ Asim, station manager and programming head. Their talk shows, often sponsored by UNICEF to mark days like World Health Day or World Water Day, are interactive and community-led. During the COVID-19 lockdown, their call-in show became a lifeline. 'Our former RJ Nazaakat lived on-site and anchored the shows,' Irfan recalls. 'People would say, 'Chidiya bhi par nahin maar sakti thi, magar aapne humein zinda rakha' — even birds couldn't fly freely, but you kept us alive through entertainment.' While the radio tower's transmitter has a 200-watt capacity, they are licensed for 50 watts, reaching listeners across Talabkatta, Riyasat Nagar, Malakpet, Chaderghat, DRDL, Saidabad, and even as far as Shamshabad in car radios. One popular morning show, Salaam Hyderabad by RJ Saaniya, blends health, lifestyle, and personal reflections. 'We have talked about everything — from breaking the habit of overthinking to why kids don't respect parents anymore. Even something like nail-biting gets people calling in,' says Saaniya, who joined after a 16-year stint with ETV Urdu Two of their RJs — Neetu from Sikkim and Dolly from Jaipur — host weekly shows remotely. Both army wives, they joined the station while posted in Hyderabad and stayed on even after relocating. Finances remain tight, with only government ads and limited funding. But as Radio Charminar approaches its 10-year milestone, the team remains hopeful. One plan includes reviving Guzishta Hyderabad, a beloved show by station director Allama Aijaz Farrukh, with a nostalgic focus on Hyderabad.
The Sun
21-07-2025
- The Sun
The dark reason I cut off my mum & refused to speak to her for 11 years – I had zero regrets, even on her death bed
WHEN a police officer knocked on Stephanie Peirolo's door on a rainy evening in 2003, she instantly knew why they were there. Her 16-year-old son, RJ, had left home just half an hour earlier to visit a friend - when he was involved in a horror car crash at a junction. 4 4 He was sober. He was wearing his seatbelt. He was doing everything right. 'I just said, 'Is he dead?' And he said, 'Not yet,'' she recalls. Stephanie followed the police car to her nearest trauma hospital in Seattle, where she lives, Harborview Medical Centre. The journey was a blur of rain and panic, and to her shock, she arrived just moments after her son's ambulance. The officer led her through the emergency entrance, and that was when she saw something she'll never forget. 'Some paramedics were hosing blood out of the back of an ambulance,' she remembers. 'There was so much of it. And I knew. I just knew that was for my son.' She stood in shock, knowing that what she was about to face was far more heartbreaking than she had previously imagined. RJ survived the crash but suffered a catastrophic brain injury. The accident took place on a rainy winter night, at a junction known locally for poor visibility. Lisa Riley opens up on the grief of losing her mum RJ had passed his test almost a year earlier, when another car accidentally drove into his vehicle. The other driver thankfully escaped uninjured, and neither of them were found to be at fault. For months, RJ lay in a coma - his eyes open, but unresponsive. It took nearly a year before he could begin to communicate, signalling 'yes' with a lifted thumb and 'no' by lowering it. RJ spent several weeks in intensive care, and several months in hospital, before Stephanie was given the difficult choice to bring him home, despite still being in a coma, due to health insurance issues. A single mother, she was raising two teenagers at the time - her sunny and outgoing daughter Emma, then 15, and her bright and sensitive son RJ - while trying to hang on to her job as the vice president of an ad agency to keep their much-needed health insurance. She had previously split from their dad, who had moved to France when their kids were in nursery. Alongside the trauma of RJ's condition, Stephanie was also navigating her crumbling relationship with her mother, Diane Peirolo. The two had always had a strained dynamic. When Stephanie's father died unexpectedly, she was 19 and says she was left to plan the funeral alone. Her mother, then 47 and recently retired, remained sedated on the sofa, after taking 'one too many Valium'. 'After my dad's death, Mum always talked about 'her husband'... never 'your father,' even to me,' Stephanie recalls. 'It was always her grief, her story. We all just knew the rules.' Where to seek grief support Need professional help with grief? Child Bereavement UK Cruse Bereavement Relate The Good Grief Trust You can also always speak to your GP if you're struggling. You're Not Alone Check out these books, podcasts and apps that all expertly navigate grief… Griefcast: Cariad Lloyd interviews comedians on this award-winning podcast. The Madness Of Grief by Rev Richard Coles (£9.99, W&N): The Strictly fave writes movingly on losing his husband David to alcoholism. Terrible, Thanks For Asking: Podcast host Nora McInerny encourages non-celebs to share how they're really feeling. Good Mourning by Sally Douglas and Imogen Carn (£14.99, Murdoch Books): A guide for people who've suffered sudden loss, like the authors who both lost their mums. Grief Works: Download this for daily meditations and expert tips. How To Grieve Like A Champ by Lianna Champ (£3.99, Red Door Press): A book for improving your relationship with death. Years later, when RJ's life hung in the balance, the same pattern re-emerged. 'She was one of those women who grew up being taught to compete with other women for everything. That extended to her daughters,' Stephanie, who has a sister, says. 'In her world, attention is a pie. If one person gets a bigger slice, there's less for her.' That competitive edge morphed into something even more painful as RJ's condition worsened. Just months after his accident, as Stephanie sat with Diane next to RJ's hospital bed at home, her mother told her a bizarre story about how she'd been in a car crash as a teenager. 'She was never in one. Her sister was. But she looked me in the eye and claimed it as her own. ''My son, who had actually survived one, was lying next to us.' Stephanie stopped inviting her over after that. For 10 months, she cared for RJ at home, in a makeshift hospital room, before he was moved back to a specialist nursing facility. She was supported by her aunt, who had worked as a rehabilitation nurse. 'The staff did their best,' she says. 'But they were underfunded and overwhelmed.' In 2006, RJ died aged just 19, after he caught flu and then developed sepsis due to complications with his feeding tube. It was two-and-a-half years after his accident. But Diane's worsening behaviour only added to Stephanie's trauma. The grandmother, who should have been grieving with her, began acting as if RJ had never existed. 'I was having lunch with her near my university, where I was studying for a post-graduate degree in transformational leadership,' says Stephanie. 'She was talking about her husband's death, and I had this very vivid sense that people at the next table would assume her husband had just died. ''And that I was just some stranger she was talking to, telling the story for the first time. 'Not her daughter. Not the mother of a child who'd died just a year earlier. 'To anyone nearby, it would've looked like she was a grieving widow having lunch with a kind stranger. ''But I was her daughter. And I was the one grieving, for my son.' Drowning in grief, Stephanie never managed to finish her degree. She says: 'I just couldn't concentrate. ''Grief made everything foggy. Eventually, I left the programme.' 'I couldn't do this anymore' Later, her mother even began borrowing RJ's medical details, inserting them into her own life story. Sitting beside her at a doctor's appointment, Stephanie was stunned when her mother claimed she'd once been in a wheelchair and undergone extensive rehab. 'That never happened to her. But it happened to my son,' she says. She claims her mother looked at her as if to say, 'What are you going to do about it?' 'That's when I realised I couldn't do this anymore,' Stephanie says. 'My mother was of sound mind. She wasn't confused. That was her choice.' Cutting family ties - and shock diagnosis At this point, Stephanie made the decision to cut her mother out. 'I never regretted it. Not once,' she says. 'My life got lighter without her in it. There was more air in the room. 'She didn't make things better. She made them harder. And I had already survived enough.' But family pressure mounted when Diane was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2019. 'My aunt would ask, 'Would you see her on her deathbed?'' she recalls. After 11 years of zero contact, Stephanie saw her mother one final time. 'I did see my mother on her deathbed, a decision I made at the last minute, largely because it was important to other people in my family who matter to me,' she explains. Her mother died in January 2022 at the age of 85, and Stephanie went to and planned the funeral, finding a surprising source of comfort during the Catholic priest's eulogy. 'He acknowledged that Diane was a difficult person to get close to. And that helped me,' she says. Stephanie said the huge grief that followed caught her off-guard. 'It was jagged and harsh. Maybe because it came with a huge sense of relief that she was no longer in the world,' she says. In the years since, she's channelled her story into her writing. Her book, The Saint and The Drunk: A Guide to Making the Big Decisions in Your Life, explores how we make choices in emotionally complex moments, especially when they go against family or societal expectations. Stephanie is now 62. She works as an executive coach and consultant and writes. Her daughter Emma, now 37, is a nurse, who worked in the ICU during the pandemic, inspired by her brother. 'The book is about learning to trust your own reality. Even if people around you don't approve or even acknowledge it.' She says toxic family dynamics can drown out your instincts. 'It's like trying to hear a far-off sound in a windstorm. You have to fight to access your inner compass.' 4 Navigating grief Her advice? Surround yourself with people who reflect your truth back to you, friends, support groups, even strangers. 'Grief looks different for everyone,' she says. 'Someone might be shattered by the loss of a pet. Someone else might feel relief after leaving a marriage. There are no rules.' She stays connected with other bereaved parents, those who've lost children through stillbirth, suicide, accidents, or gun violence. 'We're in a horrible club. But we support each other. We understand that grief is not a competition.' One of her family friends lost a baby on the day he was born. Stephanie lost RJ at 19. 'She feels sad for me, that I had to let him go. I feel sad for her, that she never got to watch him grow. ''There's no comparison. There's just love.' It offers a powerful framework for tuning into your instincts, especially in the face of grief, family pressure, and emotional overwhelm.
