Huge crowds fill Tehran streets for Khamenei’s funeral procession

Ali Khamenei, who was 86, became supreme leader in 1989 after the death of the Islamic Republic’s founding father, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. He maintained a firm grip on Iran’s politics and its armed forces, and suppressed domestic challenges, sometimes violently. He also took consistently hard-line stances on external matters, including Iran’s confrontation with the US…

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Immigration changes may raise long-term care costs

Louis Barajas, a certified financial planner with over three decades of experience, knows firsthand about the rising cost of health care and the shrinking availability of long-term care workers for millions of seniors and people with disabilities.  “It’s been putting a lot of pressure on the American family’s money,” said Barajas, CEO of International Private Wealth…

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Microsoft engineer earning Rs 1.9 crore recalls the Rs 15,000 college fee his family couldn’t afford: ‘My father sold my mother’s jewellery’ |

Years can change a person’s life. They can bring dream jobs, bigger homes, and salaries that once felt impossible. But some memories refuse to fade, no matter how far life moves ahead.For Bengaluru-based software engineer Manu Agrawal, one such memory goes back to his college days, when arranging Rs 15,000 for a semester fee was…

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