The figures lay bare a stark imbalance -- despite women making up half the population, their presence among candidates remains marginal.

Despite concerns over a possible market correction, the firm noted that a decline in home loan interest rates, strong economic growth and easing inflation helped sustain housing demand during the calendar year.

As citizens file taxes, the financial cost of floods and landslides once again falls largely on domestic budgets.

US magazine Scientific American named the research by Baek Jin-eon among its top 10 mathematical breakthroughs of 2025, the mathematics community said on Sunday.

The Law on Teachers, comprising nine chapters and 42 articles, stipulates that teachers’ salaries will be ranked at the highest level within the public administrative and non-business pay scale.

Chen and Prince Group are accused of profiting from transnational crimes, including through blackmail involving sexually explicit materials, money laundering, wire fraud, corruption, illegal online gambling, and industrial-scale human trafficking, torture, and extortion of enslaved workers in Cambodia.

The incident followed an argument related to their romantic relationship and caused a large fire.

Cultural organisations, Chhayanaut and Udichi, were attacked in Bangladesh, highlighting tensions between Islamic and Bengali identities. Despite the attacks, they are defiant, resuming activities amidst public support and calls for a secular, democratic Bangladesh.

In an era where geopolitics plays an outsized role in determining economic realities in a multipolar world, middle powers and small states are having to innovate and redefine priorities just to survive.

Reacting to the demolition drive, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi claimed that the whole land belongs to the Waqf.

Known locally as "tuklaw," it has three times more nicotine content compared to normal cigarettes and may cause seizure-like symptoms upon consumption.