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Sunday, March 15, 2026
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Topic: PISA

Want to use science to standardise testing & scoring in India: CEO of body behind GRE, TOEFL

Educational Testing Service working with Indian govt to set up national assessment regulator PARAKH, which will set up norms for exams. CEO Amit Sevak says they will align to new NEP.

India prepares hard for global student assessment test — last time it finished in bottom two

A decade after its abysmal performance, India is preparing teachers and students of the participating schools in accordance with PISA test standards.

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Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.