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Thursday, January 8, 2026
TopicFirst dates

Topic: first dates

Young couples are reinventing first dates. Not coffee and dinner but Zumba, spa, pottery

The 20-somethings are trying out the A to Z dating trend, testing out potential partners through alphabetically curated dates. A for arcade, Z for zoo.

Who pays on a first date? Be smart, we are scoring transactionships in the name of love

On bad dates, I grab the bill like a desi uncle trying to upstage his brother-in-law. I’m too proud to owe anything to them.

Bad first dates are better than boring ones—Freud fanboys to double-dating daredevils

One plays a good listener, the other overshares. It’s a peculiar mating dance. If it's going well, it can last forever (one night). If it doesn’t, we wait for it to end.

On Camera

Why the Tashkent Declaration was both a moral and semantic victory for Shastri

In his bilateral talks with Ayub Khan, Lal Bahadur Shastri said while India had never accepted the two-nation theory, some elements in Pakistan were bent on making it a ‘two-hostile nation' construct.

2025 marked key point in India’s power sector: Clean energy surge pushed coal power into rare decline

Coal-based power generation fell 3% in 2025 while renewable capacity surged to 40% of India’s installed power mix, according to India Power Sector Review 2025 by CREA.

Bangladesh-Pakistan look to expand ties to defence procurement as Dhaka shows ‘interest’ in JF-17s

Pakistan military said it has assured Bangladesh of fast-tracked delivery of Super Mushshak trainer aircraft during high level defence meet held Tuesday.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.