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Saturday, January 3, 2026
TopicMatchmaking

Topic: matchmaking

The Aggarwal crisis in India. They have everything but no one good to marry

Aggarwals have built empires in business, but the marriage market is harder to crack. Huge matchmaking sammelans with biodata booklets and stage intros are their answer to delayed weddings.

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.

On Camera

Indian bureaucracy should be given incentives and rewards: MH Mody

Is there a place for a counter-bureaucracy, or a separate and competing bureaucracy to counterbalance the force of the executive’s bureaucracy, asked author MH Mody in 1980.

India’s urban co-op banks are turning the page—crisis to cautious revival, one metric at a time

With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.

Greece looking at TATA’s WhAP infantry combat vehicle for army procurement

If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.

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.