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Tuesday, January 27, 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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India is the world’s first successful poor democracy

Most poor countries that experimented with democracy failed to sustain it. While some collapsed into military rule, others slid into one-party states or ethnic autocracies.

RBI opens door to urban co-op bank licences after 2 decades. But high capital bar may shut most out

Proposal to restart licensing is welcome, but Rs 300-crore minimum capital requirement could mean only handful of credit societies qualify, say sector executives

From action near Myanmar to hand-to-hand combat in Kishtwar, meet this year’s gallantry award winners

Overall, President Droupadi Murmu has approved Gallantry awards to 70 armed forces personnel, including six posthumous, on the eve of 77th Republic Day.

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.