Ayatollah Alireza Arafi, a prominent Shia cleric and Islamic jurist born in 1959 in Meybod, central Iran, currently heads the country's Centre for the Management of Islamic Seminaries and has been Director of the revered Qom Seminary since 2016
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Paris Paralympics gold medal-winning high jumper Praveen Kumar remembers the cruel barbs that set him on his remarkable journey
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Born in San Francisco, Eileen Gu has risen to become the most decorated freeskier in Olympic history. Representing China since 2019, she has clinched multiple medals across the 2022 Winter Olympics and the 2026 Winter Olympics, while also balancing modelling and a quantum physics degree at Stanford University
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Mitkari drew a comparison between the crash and the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi by the LTTE; his remarks have triggered sharp reactions in political circles, with many questioning the basis of such claims
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