The calls itself the "Voice of the Lazy & Unemployed" and its headquarters is "wherever the wifi works". Founded on May 16 as a response to the CJI's in-court remarks in which he likened sections of unemployed youth to cockroaches and parasites, the party has gone viral, amassing more than a million followers across social media.

The battle for control over the Strait of Hormuz continues. has established a new body to manage the Strait, called the Persian Gulf Strait Authority. Ostensibly set up to provide real-time updates on Hormuz Strait operations, the authority currently has an account on X.

Taiwan Travelogue has won the . The book, published by the not-for-profit publisher And Other Stories, is the first novel originally written in Mandarin Chinese to win the prize.

The AI and data centre boom has driven Korean tech behemoth to record all-time high quarterly revenue, with its stock price surging over 400% in the past year. Now its employees want their bonuses hiked to match rivals such as SK Hynix, and nearly 48,000 of them have threatened an 18-day strike starting tomorrow.

With 's total fertility rate falling to 1.5, well below the 2.1 population replacement level, the state government has been encouraging families to have more children. Its latest move is to offer cash incentives of ₹30,000 and ₹40,000 for families that have a third and fourth child respectively.