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Saturday, April 4, 2026
TopicDating apps

Topic: Dating apps

Love in the time of KYC: House panel wants KYC made mandatory for social media, dating & gaming apps

The move is aimed at curbing the ‘menace of fake profiles, impersonation and anonymous harassment’, with penalties for platforms that fail to protect women and minors.

Dalit dating in India is a choice between dignity and loneliness

Dating apps promised to disrupt the casteist marriage market. Instead, they’ve merely translated social biases into digital language.

New-age job search: Join a dating app, network your way to interviews

About a third of dating app users said they had sought matches for job hook-ups, according to a survey.

Attachment styles are the new kundli matching. Swipe, diagnose, repeat

People with anxious attachment are on the far left end, craving closeness like it was oxygen. And on the far right are avoidant attachment ghouls who will get mad at you for loving them.

Indian couples keep lying about how they met. Dating app stigma is real

If Zohran Mamdani can admit his Hinge romance, why can’t you?

Modern dating and the black cat-Golden Retriever theory

Every couple thinks they’re black cat–Golden Retriever until the bill arrives. That’s when everyone magically transforms into a terrified goat.

Why fruity men are winning hearts on dating apps—it’s survival of the softest

An average single girl likes men who care about women’s cricket, skip the ‘harmless sexist jokes’ and listen to them rant without offering solutions. She still might call him a ‘performative male’ for ticking every box.

Be soft, smile more, never text first—‘feminine energy’ is men’s new obsession

Uncertified dating gurus are teaching women to be suggestive, mysterious, and never loud. For some of us, this level of performance is simply unachievable. We might as well give up and become Brahma Kumaris.

Diwali dating — when ghosted lovers rise again in the festival of lights

Something really changes in the air that makes everyone text their ex this season, and the emotional kabaddi of modern dating turns festive.

Nice guys, bad boys, and the dating propaganda

Every influencer is selling a course, a podcast, or a protein powder on how to upgrade from Nice Guy to Alpha. Nice is needy. All his kindness is a loan that you never signed up for.

On Camera

This is how Strait of Hormuz shock is forcing a global trade reset

The current Iran war has laid bare a fundamental reality: 20 per cent of global energy trade cannot afford to rely on a single artery, no matter how resilient and cost-effective.

SEBI proposes return of open market share buybacks to support stocks

Regulator seeks feedback on allowing firms to repurchase shares via exchanges after tax changes, as markets reel from war-led selloff and foreign outflows.

South Korea’s Cheongung-II missile system makes its mark in West Asia war. Here’s why

UAE has been using this defence system, which is similar to America's Patriots, against Iranian missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles.

Gulf war exposed India’s fragilities. It’s time for navel-gazing, in the national interest

It’s easy to understand why the government can’t speak the hard truth. When this war ends, as all wars do, India’s interests will lie with both the winner and the loser.