‘My brother’s death changed everything’: The story of 30-year old Pooja Sharma who has cremated 4000 unclaimed dead bodies |

At an age when most women are getting married, building careers, or planning families, Pooja Sharma spends her days cremating unclaimed dead bodies. Born into a middle-class family in Shahdara, Delhi, Pooja completed a master’s degree in social work and was working as an HIV counsellor at a government hospital. At the time, Pooja was…

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Education Department to delay collections on defaulted student loans

U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon attends a press briefing with White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt (not pictured) at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., November 20, 2025. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters The Education Department announced on Friday that it will delay the implementation of wage garnishment and other involuntary collection efforts affecting defaulted…

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Iranians on border describe violence and more protestsand violence during blackout

Lucy WilliamsonBashmaq border crossing, Iraqi Kurdistan Fred Scott/BBC People and traffic still regularly cross the Iran-Iraq border At the border crossing from Iran into Iraqi Kurdistan, the stern face of Iran’s former supreme leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, peers down at the trickle of Iranians leaving the territory. Thick snowflakes confetti the lorries and pedestrians arriving at…

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