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Saturday, March 14, 2026
TopicPublic Recruitment System

Topic: Public Recruitment System

India’s public recruitment system stuck in ‘state incapacity’ trap. Can new exam bill save it?

In 2021, the cancellation of the Teacher Eligibility Test, a requirement for recruitment as a school teacher in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, affected nearly 16 lakh and 20 lakh people, respectively.

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What India can learn from the US-Israel war on Iran

Without any air force or navy worth the name, both Iran and Ukraine have held two superpowers at bay.

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.