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Wednesday, April 22, 2026
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Topic: Relationships

Are you acting like a teenager in love? It’s a modern dating epidemic

I have been called out for the hater energy I bring to my romantic life. Here I was thinking that my rants about the people I date are a sign of my deeper interest in them.

Modern lovers don’t kiss and tell. Only ChatGPT knows the relationship problems

The kids these days reject TMI. Welcome to emotional minimalism: Share less, reveal slowly, and only when the relationship can withstand public scrutiny.

Everyone’s ‘damaged’ in modern dating. Love will soon be called a mental illness

If someone doesn’t text back, they’re avoidant. If you feel jealous watching your partner cosy up to someone else, you have attachment trauma. He dumped you? He is a narcissist.

He’s an introvert, she’s a party girl. On taking Hinge relationships to the dance floor

Do ragers need another rager to live happily ever after? Sometimes a rager needs a snoozer to park them home in time for the dreadful Monday on the horizon.

People congratulated me when Taylor Swift got engaged. Welcome to parasocial life

It’s the age of Swifties and ChatGPT. No wonder ‘parasocial’ is Cambridge Word of the Year.

Young women are designing their own relationships. Love is now add-on, not operating system

This isn’t commitment phobia at play. If anything, it’s the evolution of it—with commitment curation.

Trailer of Pakistan’s first dating reality show released

This is not the first time that the reality dating format has forayed into conservative markets. In 2024, Love Is Blind: Habibi was launched that had participants from multiple Arab nations.

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.

India-Pakistan marriage breakdown that British can’t stop crying about

Ever since the Love Is Blind: UK episode dropped, there has been a collective meltdown online over the separation of Pakistan-origin Kal Pasha and Indian-origin Sarover Kaur Aujla.

Lover girls are the tragic clowns of modern dating. They are keeping romance alive

It’s not that lover girls lack self-respect — they’ve just put it on a little sale for whichever emotionally unavailable dude they’re currently fixated on.

On Camera

China is worried about US–Philippines military exercises. It’s too close for comfort

Official Chinese statements have described the drills as destabilising, warning that they risk escalation and that the participating countries are 'playing with fire.'

FTA partners drive India’s trade surge as reliance on non-FTA countries dips, says NITI Aayog report

Share of trade with FTA partners rose from 4.6% in 2006 to 28.8% in 2024. India is currently negotiating or advancing agreements with US, Israel, GCC, Canada & Mexico.

Japan overhauls post-World War II pacifist military approach, lifts restrictions on defence exports

Since October last year, Japan PM Sanae Takaichi has planned to increase defence spending target to 2 percent of GDP.

Trump, Netanyahu’s Iran gamble: The regime change rebound

American objectives are unmet. They neither have muscle nor motivation to resume the war. As for Iran, the regime didn’t just survive, it’s now led by more radical individuals.