scorecardresearch
Add as a preferred source on Google
Thursday, January 29, 2026
TopicFriendship

Topic: Friendship

The dating pool is depleting. Gen Z is fishing in the friend zone

The best part? If they ghost you, you can summon them on their mom’s mobile.

Friends are still matchmaking in the dating apps era

Gauging romantic chemistry between two people is risky business. When it flops, years of friendship and group dynamics fall apart.

‘Friend breakups’ can hurt just as much as romantic ones. Here’s why

Research shows that the most common method of ending a friendship is by avoidance – not addressing the issues involved.

Workplace best friends are good for you, a US researcher explains

While there will always be colleagues you don’t care for, it can be empowering to know that with some reframing, you can help create a better workplace for everyone.

Making friends from different generations can reduce loneliness. Here’s how

Friendships between older and younger people can also promote social inclusion, tackle ageism, besides reducing loneliness in society.

‘Bhakts’ or ‘Liberals’ — friendship changed in Modi’s India. Tech will make it worse for GenZ

In ‘India 2030’, Sandipan Deb, as part of the volume of 20 essays, predicts how ideology and technology will widen political polarisation over the next decade.

Is sex more important than friendship in marriage?

Public intellectual Gurcharan Das writes about how dwindling desire in marriage can give way to another kind of love. 

On Camera

How Djokovic & his luck outplayed opponents in major tournaments—walkovers to retirements

By the 2024 US Open, ESPN noted that Djokovic had advanced via opponent retirements or walkovers 16 times at Majors, the most of any male player in the Open Era.

India among top 5 for expanding research in critical technologies, despite low R&D investment

The Economic Survey 2025-26 shows India among the top five countries in 45 out of 64 critical technologies in the Critical Technology Tracker.

Indian Army ties up with US drone company that made its name in the Ukraine conflict

Shield AI will provide V-BAT vertical takeoff & landing drones along with licences for software, which will be integrated into aircraft and made available to select Indian partners.

Non-alignment is coming back in a new avatar: Trump-peedit alliance

No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.