Factory workers in have been on the streets demanding wages on par with Haryana, where the minimum was recently hiked to ₹19,000 a month against UP's ₹13,000. The protests turned violent with vehicles being torched and stone pelting. Some good news. A 25-month-old Indian-born cheetah has given birth to four cubs in the wild at National Park, the first recorded wild birth since the reintroduction programme began in 2022. India's cheetah count now stands at 57. The first American Pope, XIV, is finding that being American doesn't buy goodwill with the current US administration. Trump called him weak on crime and terrible on foreign policy, after the pontiff condemned the rhetoric around the Iran war. The Pope is currently on an 11-day trip to Africa and says he has no fear of the Trump administration. Hungary has had enough with the “illiberal democracy” experiment. After 16 years, has conceded defeat to Peter Magyar, whose Tisza party swept the election with a two-thirds majority. Budapest partied through the night. The Indian government offered Big Tech a year tax holiday in this year’s budget to set up data centres locally. Google and Microsoft took the offer. Now farmers near their sites in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana are finding out what that deal actually cost - their land, their water, and very little say in the matter.