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Wednesday, July 23, 2025
TopicChildlessness

Topic: Childlessness

No kids please, we’re pet parents—why some Indian couples choose cats & dogs over babies

Some couples are channelling their nurturing instincts towards animals due to the costs, mental burden, long-term commitment associated with raising children.

Karnataka HC allows man who crossed 55-yr age bar to seek surrogacy, evolves triple test for unique cases

Court directs surrogacy board to consider plea of couple who lost son to accident. Legislature must look at changes to law as board has no scope to salvage unique cases, it adds.

Parents have very warm feelings toward other parents. But that’s bad news for the childless

Child-free people feel the same toward other child-free people and parents. This was surprising because usually, people feel warmer toward members of their own group.

On Camera

Bihar mimics 19th-century American South. Citizenship is now weaponised to exclude voters

Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.